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Recovering Google Authenticator keys from Android device for backup
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| ### Last tested February 7 2014 on a Galaxy S3 (d2att) running Cyanogenmod 11 nightly, with Google Authenticator 2.49. | |
| ### Device with Google Authenticator must have root. | |
| ### Computer requires Android Developer Tools and SQLite 3. | |
| ### Connect your device in USB debugging mode. | |
| $ cd /tmp | |
| $ adb root | |
| $ adb pull /data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases | |
| $ sqlite3 ./databases "select * from accounts" > /Volumes/TRUECRYPT_ENCRYPTED_VOLUME/google_authenticator_backup.txt | |
| $ rm ./databases | |
| ### If you look at the file, you see a pipe-delimited file with entries looking like the following. | |
| ### The X's mark the key. | |
| 1|Google:me@gmail.com|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0|| | |
| 2|Google:me@domain.org|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0|Google|Google:me@domain.org | |
| 3|Dropbox:me@gmail.com|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0|Dropbox|Dropbox:me@gmail.com | |
| ### To restore the keys, you can key them in manually in Google Authenticator: | |
| ### Menu -> Set up account -> Enter provided key. | |
| ### Enter the key exactly as it appears, case sensitive, and choose Time-based. |
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