The phone that I used for two factor authentication is dead. I have a new phone and i'm in the process of restoring everything.
Unfortunately, when it comes to pawb.social, i'm not gonna be able to disable 2FA because, to do so, i am asked for a 2FA code. Which i could get if my old phone was still working, but it isn't.
EDIT forgot to mention: at the time i set up 2FA on this account, i was not given backup codes. The text file where i store them just says "Lemmy: they didn't give me any". I don't remember what the circumstances were back then
The app i'm using is Aegis Authenticator.
I can still access this account because i never logged out of it on PC, but i'm building a new PC right now so i'll lose the account.
I'm not asking for anyone to disable it in the backend, that would be a security issue. Not sure what to do, honestly it's not that big a deal to delete the account and remake.
Of course it's great that this instance has 2FA in the first place, but then this issue arises.
I searched this c/ for this topic and it looks like i'm the first to raise this.
Thanks for everything you guys do
How come you can't reinstall the original OS ? Is it a Xiaomi ?
If your device is based on a Mediatek CPU, it might be possible to find firmware files that you can patch to reinitialise your device.
It's a Samsung A21s.
I'm gonna be honest, i don't know that it's imposible, i just really don't like my odds of being able to do it from what i've seen of phones being very proprietary and very locked in. It's a big thing making me scared to try LineageOS. I'm about to build a Linux PC, and it's way easier to make that decision when i know i can always fall back onto Windows.