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How to get rid of Microsoft Authenticator?
I have Office 365 subscription and it works well. However, I got the Microsoft Authenticator app installed on my Samsung Galaxy and it got my Outlook account added there. I have no idea how that happened since I did not add it. I've read the instructions from [How to use the Microsoft Authenticator...
I have Office 365 subscription and it works well. However, I got the Microsoft Authenticator app installed on my Samsung Galaxy and it got my Outlook account added there. I have no idea how that happened since I did not add it.
I've read the instructions from [How to use the Microsoft Authenticator app](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026727/microsoft-account-how-to-use-the-microsoft-authenticator-app) , but the instructions are complicated. I don't need this Authenticator, so I want to get rid of it.
How can I get rid of it and keep my Microsoft account?
user1095659
Sep 29, 2019, 04:22 PM
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Export accounts from Microsoft Authenticator
I have Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator. I want to move both off my main phone and onto two backup phones, mainly in case my main phone is ever lost or stolen. Walking around with all my security and bank accounts on my main phone makes me feel vulnerable to a 5-dollar wrench attack....
I have Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator. I want to move both off my main phone and onto two backup phones, mainly in case my main phone is ever lost or stolen. Walking around with all my security and bank accounts on my main phone makes me feel vulnerable to a 5-dollar wrench attack.
Google Authenticator seems fairly painless. You export the sites you want to export.
I can't see how you can do it with Microsoft Authenticator. I tried installing it on another phone and restoring it, but then the first phone ended up being blocked for about 15 minutes.
How can I do this with Microsoft Authenticator?
tony
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Apr 16, 2023, 10:36 AM
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I can not import IDs or restore my accounts from Microsoft Authenticator - How I can fix this?
Because of a problem I need to import IDs and I entered the 12 words recovery phrase as one long string but I always get error from jwt file say file is encrypted. I tried also to use my main email account from Microsoft but when I choose begin recovery it display that account does not has a backup...
Because of a problem I need to import IDs and I entered the 12 words recovery phrase as one long string but I always get error from jwt file say file is encrypted.
I tried also to use my main email account from Microsoft but when I choose begin recovery it display that account does not has a backup !! I tried also all my emails same result. I dont know how I can restore my accounts. Any ideas ?
zac
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Aug 7, 2023, 12:28 PM
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I cannot sync time with Microsoft Authentication app
I can not log in with 2FA from Microsoft Authenticator. Although the time is correct on my Android phone, when I use the authenticator app, I can not log in to my sites. It displays the wrong code. How to fix this? I tried to set my phone date/time to automatic but the problem remains. I googled and...
I can not log in with 2FA from Microsoft Authenticator. Although the time is correct on my Android phone, when I use the authenticator app, I can not log in to my sites. It displays the wrong code. How to fix this?
I tried to set my phone date/time to automatic but the problem remains.
I googled and find on the search there is an option to sync time inside Microsoft Authenticator, but I can not find this option in the settings menu.
zac
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May 8, 2023, 08:03 PM
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Is it possible to restore the data of Microsoft Authenticator from a TWRP backup?
After installing the latest LineageOS update on my phone, unfortunately, my phone boot looped, so I made a backup using TWRP, and I did a clean install of the latest version of LineageOS, attempting to restore the backup TWRP had made, but only for my phone to be boot looped yet again. Unluckily for...
After installing the latest LineageOS update on my phone, unfortunately, my phone boot looped, so I made a backup using TWRP, and I did a clean install of the latest version of LineageOS, attempting to restore the backup TWRP had made, but only for my phone to be boot looped yet again. Unluckily for me, I had to "restore" my apps by simply downloading them (through the Google Play Store) and logging into them. Sadly though, one of my necessary apps/accounts requires two-factor authentication, which is a problem because my two-factor authentication app ("Microsoft Authenticator") had gotten wiped, and although it is backed up in TWRP, I don't know what I can do with it. Also to note, there are no other "additional" methods of logging in for this account of mine. Now I am stumped, as to what I could possibly do to be able to recover either:
1. My keys + all of my Microsoft Authenticator app data, or
2. Be able to find out what other accounts were linked to my Microsoft Authenticator app.
I am aware that I'm able to extract TWRP's files (each has some sort of
**TL;DR: How can I recover solely my Microsoft Authenticator data from my TWRP Backup?**
Notes:
- I use Microsoft Authenticator as my 2-factor-authentication app, and sadly, I did not enable cloud backup for it at the time of my factory reset
- I did not export my codes/OTP from Microsoft Authenticator, as there is no option for that
- My phone is rooted, and I have TWRP installed
Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!
win
extension) by renaming their extension to .tar
and opening them with a file archiver like 7-Zip/WinRAR. However, my question is, what would I have to do to be able to possibly restore my Microsoft authenticator app data to my phone, without having to restore the entire data partition of my TWRP backup (Because if I were to restore the entire data partition, my phone would boot loop again).
Sources I checked out:
- Restore-apps-from-a-nandroid-backup-using-titanium-backup - Titanium Backup doesn't work well on the more up-to-date versions of Android (Particularly Android 11, since that's what I have right now), the same thing with Nandroid Manager (Nandroid Manager isn't maintained for the time being)
- Twrp-manual-restore -- Seems old and unlikely to work on Android 11 (But it might)
- Restore-app-data-without-restoring-the-whole-image -- Could be a plausible solution, but I don't know where I'd paste the data/data file (I don't even know what the data/datafile looks like) to, cause I don't have anything similar to "sd/ext.SD", and I don't know what'd be considered my "readable memory."
- Restore-data-of-a-specific-app-from-a-twrp-backup -- Asked 8 days ago, a remarkably similar issue to me. However, I don't think I can replicate the steps since I found two com.azure.authenticator
's, each in separate win
files (One has the base.apk
, another has some other files, and an image of me combining them is shown)
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Raho
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Apr 12, 2021, 04:48 AM
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