So my phone is having Stupid Issues yet again, so I'm going to do a factory reset as a last resort before buying a new phone. Of course, I can't just wipe the phone without more Stupid Issues. Namely, I have a number of sites that, for one reason or another, require I use Google Authenticator to access them.
So, how do I backup my Google Authenticator codes before doing a factory reset? Simple: you can't. You need to have saved whatever numbers or QR codes you used to set up your keys to begin with. And if you didn't save those? You're SOL and simply have to lose access to all the sites and set up entirely new codes for everything after I wipe my phone.
The apparent solution was to have used "Authy" instead. Maybe. Who knows? In any case, even the factory resetting didn't fix the Stupid Issues, so now it looks like I have to buy a new phone if I want simple things like Bluetooth enabled once again. Thanks, Google!
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