coherenttemple

Thanks. I might try it as a last resort. For the time being I keep on trying the "Try another way" with a hope that google sends the code to my third party mail app as their support docs claim. I wish they had a way to contact a support team to mitigate this type of issues.

The only option I saw so far was to enter an existing email after multiple iterations of "Try another way" option. That email received a verification code. I put that code in the recovery window and then saw this:

"Reply to your Google support email or contact to let the team know you've successfully completed your account recovery request. To try signing in again, follow the steps in our Help Center on how to recover your account."