{"id":650,"date":"2011-12-06T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:50:32","slug":"gmail-2-step-verification-breaks-older-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/12\/gmail-2-step-verification-breaks-older-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"GMail 2 step verification breaks older devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had the wonderful experience of (never be evil) Google breaking something again. With all the security issues flying around they introduced something called 2 step verification for things like accessing your gmail, gtalk etc. Problem is, it breaks older apps like the Gmail app on my HTC HD2 phone &#8211; which cannot be updated since (those other wonderful friends&#8230;) Microsoft and HTC don&#8217;t support\/update the older Windows phone devices anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Even after disabling 2 step verification the GMail app on the phone is broken &#8211; meaning despite the setting disabled at Google something is still blocking the phone app from connecting and accessing my email.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Google, you are becoming just like&#8230; those other friends of ours&#8230; Stop breaking existing things and rather fix the &#8216;real&#8217; problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had the wonderful experience of (never be evil) Google breaking something again. With all the security issues flying around they introduced something called 2 step verification for things like accessing your gmail, gtalk etc. Problem is, it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/12\/gmail-2-step-verification-breaks-older-devices\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[109,107,108,29],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-htc-hd2","tag-mobile","tag-phone","tag-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}