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Recovering Google Authenticator keys from Android device for backup
### 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:[email protected]|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0||
2|Google:[email protected]|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0|Google|Google:[email protected]
3|Dropbox:[email protected]|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|0|0|0|Dropbox|Dropbox:[email protected]
### 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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LudwigEuler commented Aug 3, 2024

Link is dead

the link isn't dead.
actually, it works!

https://github.com/scito/extract_otp_secret_keys

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