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IMHO if you want to keep a Google account you MUST include a recovery phone number AND a recovery email address, and keep them up to date. Without those two items you will be locked out someday and they may not give you the option to use your recovery email, one-time codes, or anything else. I was once locked out of my account despite having the backup email, one-time codes, authenticator app, and the Google prompt on my phone, but Google would only send codes to an old phone number I had previously removed from the account. The inscrutable Google recovery process often seems to default to sending a code to the same email address you are trying to login to. But, if you are already logged into Gmail on your phone you may be able to recover the account that way by changing the password or turning off 2SV, which I have had to do before.
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