I have been trying for a few our to add my Google Account to microG on AppSupport without much success. microG itself answers a generic “there was a problem reaching google servers".
I tried with device spoofing, I tried changing the device, I tried switch more or less any option I found in microG and saw discussed somewhere in relation to authentication issues without much success.
I also tried adding my account to Aurora Store and that at least gives me an error message “Could not generate AAS Token”.
Is it a know issue? Any workaround? Many of the apps I used and would like to reuse on SailfishOS have been authenticated with Google Account, and thus I’m unable to access them until I can add my account to microG
I was wondering if in general it’s known the accounts support in microG has problems or not, independently from the specific problem might causing issues to my own phone.
But yes, happy to provide all info needed to debug it.
I’m on a Sony Xperia 10 III, SailfishOS 5.0.0.72, AppSupport Android 11 (version 2.3.0 I think), microG version 0.3.11.250932
Attempts done so far:
Enable/Disable device registration
Enable/Disable “Authenticate with device registration”
Enable/Disable “Strip device name for authentication”
Device Authentication profile Auto and profile Google Nexus 5X
Aurora Store can authenticate if I disable “Use microG to sign in to accounts”, otherwise it falls
In all cases microG does:
Accept username+password
Ask me to verify in other device by accepting via notification (which succeeds)
Ask me if I’m going to use the device or if a kid is going to (I pick myself)
Ask me to accept terms of service
Fail with “there was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later”
Aurora store’s (0.7.5 & 0.81) authentication does not work with my Google account anymore since today, March 17th, but anonymous authentication works.
I have tryed unsuccesfully with and without enabled MicroG services.
Error is always same: “there was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later”
If you installed microg through FDroid, check if you have the last version because, by default, Fdroid don’t install the last version. You need to go to Fdroid, search for Microg and check the version installed at the bottom for Microg Services and Companion. You can choose to install the last version
By default F-Droid installs the “recommended” version, sometimes it is the latest, sometimes not. Installing the newest version, when it isn’t recommended, sometimes fixes issues and sometimes it breaks stuff that worked before. If you install newer version than recommended and it causes more problems than it solves, then you can click the previous version in the F-Droid and easily downgrade back to previous version and wait for even newer version to arrive.
I had the same issue after having to uninstall and reinstall microg due to the latest SailfishOS update. Making sure to force latest version in fdroid fixed the login problem.
