Kenneth, That is very interesting. I haven't had an Android phone in a little while. But, I know with the latest version of iOS you do not need to create an app/device specific password for it. Seems strange that you would not need to with iOS but you would with Android.
Jeff On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Kenneth Ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > > In the past I've had to enter the app specific passwords to connect Google > accounts that are protected by 2SV on Android phones and tablets, iPhones, > and iPods. Yet generating an app specific password didn't work when I got > a new Nexus 6 recently and tried to connect to my 2SV protected account. I > couldn't figure out why that was the case. I ended up turning off 2SV in > order to connect my account to my new phone. Some time later I enabled 2SV > again and, although I can't recall what exactly I had to do next, I see > that I have generated an app specific password for that phone so I guess I > must have needed to generate it to re-enable logging in on the phone. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:28 PM Jeff Grossman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Kenneth Ayers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'd be curious though about what what the person who helped you with >>> your new phone did to get you logged in. You should have needed to setup an >>> app/device specific password for your new phone in your Google account >>> security settings before you could even login on the phone. You might want >>> to go to your account security page from a computer and verify that 2SV is >>> still enabled and see if an app/device specific password has been setup for >>> that device. >> >> >> Ken, >> Are you sure about that? I am pretty sure almost any new phone will use >> OAuth2 to connect to Google which does not require an app/device specific >> password. It brings up a normal Google login screen and then will ask for >> a verification code if you have 2SV setup. Once that is done it should not >> ask for a login again unless you remove the account from the device. At >> least that is how things have been working with me lately. >> >> Jeff >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > Regards, > > Kenneth > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
