Recover Your Google Account Via Https //g.co/recover for Help
Some people claim
that an advantage of a Google account is that Google account holder can easily
recover users Google account password. We Had a different experience. This post
covers the various stumbling blocks. Even if Google account holder currently don’t
have a problem with users password, We Recommend reading this article so Google
account holder are aware of the various traps that might cause users password
reset attempts to fail.
In
theory, Google account holder only have to go to
https //g.co/recover for help and
Google will send Google account holder a password reset link to users alternate
email address or to users phone.
We suppose this
will work just fine in most cases. However, several circumstances exist that
can cause this procedure to fail. In my case, the recovery email address We
Entered when We Created the Google account was wrong. This can easily happen
because the sign-up form only has one form field for the alternate email
address, and Google doesn’t send a confirmation link to the email address.
Thus, Google account holder can enter any email address and Google account
holder will only notice that Google account holder mistypes the address
when Google account holder need it for recovering users account. By then, it is
already too late, and things will get very complicated.
Verify Your Personal identity
Google offers an alternate
option for resetting users password if Google account holder don’t have access
to users recovery address. Google account holder just have to select We Don’t
have any of these on the We need to verify users identity page.
Google account
holder see now that it is important to enter the correct information when
Google account holder create the Google account. Aside from personal
information, Google account holder also have to know things such as email
addresses of contacts Google account holder have recently sent emails to, the
corresponding email subjects Google account holder used, and email folders
Google account holder created recently.
Now comes something
funny. We Tried this procedure several times, and We Failed even though We
Still had access to the account. That is, We Could provide all the information
because We Simply copied it from my Outlook.com inbox. A couple of seconds
later, We Received an automated email from Google with the crucial sentence:
Google Recovery Code and Recovery App
By the way, if Google account
holder think that the recovery code for users Google account or the identity
verification app on users phone could be helpful in this situation, these
verification methods are reserved for when Google account holder try to sign in
from a location or device that Google considers as suspicious. If Google
account holder didn’t configure one of these methods, Google account holder
will have to enter a code that Google sends to users recovery email address.
However, these recovery methods are useless if users account is blocked.
Lost Google Account Password without Internet Access
Another problem
exists with resetting a Google account password if Google account holder use
the password to sign in to Gmail account. Let’s assume Google account holder
entered the recovery email correctly and received a password reset code. If the
computer on which Google account holder forgot the password has no Internet
access, Google account holder won’t be able to sign in with the new password.
If Google account holder have no other account for this computer and have to
sign in to establish an Internet connection (for instance, if Google account
holder use a mobile plan), Google account holder are in trouble.
