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by friedtofu 556 days ago
This happened to me back in ~2018 or so. I'm trying to think back to what happened and how it was resolved.

The only way I've ever been able to get decent support from googles help center is by calling and escelating the issue and then eventually getting to the right person via the email chain started following the call. Its a pain in the ass I know.

I *think* I ended up just having to get my phone replaced because it was the primary device that every other service relied on in the end for authentication(Google pixel & Google fi, Google TV, gmail, oauth, etc).

Also look in your recovery email for an email that contains a list of backup/recovery codes. I'm pretty sure they don't email these codes anymore and your prompted to write them down/save them elsewhere but worth checking.

Needless to say sibce then I do not use google for hardly anything other than the phone itself.