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The nice folks at Google, obviously care about your account security and added an extra layer of protection, called Two Step Verification. I will not go into details about how it works, or how you can set it up, you can find all the answers you want here. What it does in short (for those of you lazy enough not to click the link) is that every time you want to sign in to your Google account (be that Gmail, Google Plus, or any other G service for that matter), except from your password, you also have to supply a pin number generated by an application you have installed on your phone. This extra step, minimizes the chance that someone else will gain access to your account. Neat huh?
One little problem I had, after I enabled Two Step Verification, was that I could not access the Android Market from my Phone. It kept asking me to sign into my Google account. Obviously, I was already signed in, since I was using the phone and there was no apparent way to tell the Market app to stop complaining. Turns out all you have to do, is go to Settings–> Applications –> Manage Applications –> All –> Market and then Clear Data. You will get a warning about data loss, but you can safely ignore it. That’s it. Market app will be working again.
still it is asking me google password…. also due to two step verification now i cant synd data from gmail to Gmail App on my galaxy s2
I can’t access my gmail account(therainismine@gmail.com) with two step verification code that was sent to my mobile number. So please fix this problem and send details on dhirenkasa2709@gmail.com
Apart from restarting the process, there is not much else I can say…
Hey Everyone,
I had similar problems to what folks are writing above, and the description given didn’t work for me. Instead, I did the following:
1) removed 2-step verification for my account
2) downloaded “google authenticator” on my android phone (once 2-step is removed, the “Play Store” was working again).
3) ran the authenticator & did everything it said. In short, it gives you a code that you type back into your google account… so it’s helpful to do this while you have access to a computer, too.
4) then put my account back onto 2-step verification.
All seems to be working OK now.
Mike
Thanks for the info Mike.
I read elsewhere that some people needed to disable two step verification as well. Glad you made it work
There’s an easier way, without having to shut down 2- step verification.
Go to your Account settings on Google -> Security -> 2-step verification settings -> Application-specific passwords -> Generate new application-specific password.
The generated password can be used only once, to let Google know that that device is “trusted”.
So, go to your Android phone and, when it complains about not being able to log in to the Google account, you try and log in with the recently generated app password – that is, use it instead of you regular password.
And, voila, your Android phone is logged and working again. No need to download the Google authenticator.
Hey, that’s a good one! It never occurred to me. Thanks for the tip
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