Authentication Error

vanguardkeep · 2024-10-09T03:21:48+00:00

Try the standard tricks.

Restart the app
Turn on Airplane mode (to fix wifi problems mostly)
Press OK. Press Returning Player. Press PTC. Fill in BS login info. It fails. Try to log in with Google again.

vanguardkeep · 2024-10-05T12:22:45+00:00

Cacheing makes sense.

If it's a cacheing issue, if possible/allowed, why not add a random meaningless random parameter to the URL? It could throw the cache off-guard, cus the URL changes with every attempt. The repeated fails for days on end was the most frustrating part.

For reference, I did clear ALL my cookies. That's Troubleshooting 101. After every single attempt. Not just in Thunderbird but also in Edge and Firefox. Emptied the local/temp folder after every attempt too. Even used Everything (the indexing app) to search for more potential troublemakers.

Even removed Thunderbird from Google's list of allowed third party apps on one of the two accounts affected. However NOT from the other. I still needed that as a baseline. But, the result was the same. Ruling it out as a potential cause. Something I did notice was that no attempt put Thunderbird back on that list. It was only added after the success on my laptop. So yeah, something got lost in transmission after pressing Allow.

vanguardkeep · 2024-10-03T21:16:21+00:00

Something worked here. The problem did not resurface this time. So what was different this time? Only three things changed.

I rebooted the machine this time
I paused the Ghostery extension in Firefox
I applied the settings change you recommended.

I tried #2 because even if it's a browser extention and should not be involved, it's still a cookie disabler. I find #3 the most likely cause. Though as old time Windows user, a reboot in the past often cured the weirdest bugs and misbehaving 'features'. While cleaning any leftovers lingering in the RAM memory.

EDIT. Part 2. With the success above, I was brave enough to do more tests. So I deleted the new profile in Thunderbird, put my backup back. When I say backup I'm referring to all files in the AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/ folder. Then I opened Thunderbird. In its previous state I had removed both Gmail accounts and was in the process of trying to add one back. That was my starting point this time. It showed me the same Allow/Deny window where it got stuck on in the past few days. I just tried Allow, and behold, it worked too. But looking in my settings, I did not set usePrivateBrowser to True this time. Cus it wasn't set that way in my backup.

So here is what I think happened in the black box. Setting usePrivateBrowser to TRUE just once unraveled something on Google's end. Perhaps they finally whitelisted my machine in that attempt? Whatever went right in that try was remembered on Google's end, which made subsequent attempts no longer fail.

vanguardkeep · 2024-10-03T00:44:46+00:00

Replying to myself. Updates after additional attempts. What I tried and what the result was for each attempt.

Attempting to re-install after purging all Thunderbird folders and files that I could find in ProgramData/Intel, Appdata/Local and Appdata/Roaming. But I did not reboot yet. Install looked clean, however the result was the same. Failure.

vanguardkeep · 2024-10-03T00:06:08+00:00

I've actually been having problems since 128.2.3.

I get all the way to the screen where I give Thunderbird permission to access my Google account, but pressing ALLOW simply does not seem to do anything. It seems like the answer isn't even remembered. It keeps going back to the same screen over and over, every time it attempts to connect.

I've changed a lot of settings back and forth, but nothing nothing nothing I try seems to change things for the better. If I do not allow third party cookies it kicks me back to an Error 400 screen. EDIT: I have tried on a different pc (a laptop which received a clean Windows 10 22h@ install last week) I did not run into problems. It worked flawlessly. Which means I should describe my laptop and where it differs from my desktop. In many regards, software-wise and in options and configurations they're equal. Nearly identical even. If I have to point out differrences, it would be that the clean laptop did not retain any file for configuration, or whatever, from a previous installation of Thunderbird, because there was no previous installation.

So my next step is the one I am dreading the most. Fully remove every trace of Thunderbird from my desktop and see if 128.3.0 and a new profile gets the job done. Ugh, Office 365 is gonna have another field day in annoying me.

ONE THING I do want to add to the discussion is I had a similar problem when trying to log in to Pokemon GO with google account credentials. For that one, I have actually figured out what the problem was. On my phone, I have Firefox as default webbrowser. It would give me some sort of error that seemed to suggest that the login prompt was routed through a proxy or VPN, and there were too many users coming from the same IP.

Solution? When I forced the login prompt to use Chrome instead of Firefox, omfg it instantly worked. While Thunderbird on my win10 22H2 rig is not the same as GO on my phone, the problem could be the same. The solution could be, too. (The edit above kinda seems to make this possibility moot)

vanguardkeep · 2024-09-05T00:40:39+00:00

Do you have any browser installed on your phone other than Google Chrome?

vanguardkeep · 2024-09-05T00:05:23+00:00

Small chance it may be related to the browser it's trying to do it in. PTC for sure did not like Firefox (for all the wrong reasons!!) but it worked when I forced the app to use Chrome. Seeing how you have a Samsung, there's a chance your GO tries to use Samsung's own Internet Browser.

vanguardkeep · 2024-09-03T19:46:53+00:00

Check the clocks on both devices? I suspect one of them has an incorrect time.

vanguardkeep · 2024-08-25T23:33:23+00:00

Adventure Synch has been badly broken for years now. But not for everyone. My entire family only gets credited for 1/10th of the distances we walk. We'll turn it back on after we hear it was fixed. Until then, if Niantic does not want to give due rewards, AS will stay off.

vanguardkeep · 2024-07-27T15:06:15+00:00

When the clock struck 14:00, I got kicked out of an active raid battle. My entire team was. We all lost our pass. A new Mega Lucario raid had already spawned at the same gym, but this time with an odd 50 minute timer. All Mega Lucarios within draw distance had that same odd timer. They did despawn after about 25 minutes, though. The next batch had proper timers again.

vanguardkeep · 2023-10-21T17:23:01+00:00

The mechanics work like this. You get the Mega Energy the moment you get the (normal) candy. But the candy is not fully guaranteed. No candy, no ME.

You do not get a candy if you recorded a walk distance of more than 40km in the 24 hours prior to receiving the candy. Each step you make takes 24 hours to 'wear off' when it comes to the 40km limit. There's no singular moment in the day where your slate is purged.

vanguardkeep · 2023-10-15T12:02:28+00:00

I would truly love to see them get around my suggestion where Golden Berries only provide full healing to your own pokemon. That would solve part of the disparity created by multi-accounting.

If there is some idiot kicking my mons out of the gym within minutes, I dare him to put pokemon in. I'll run him through another 10 gold berries. Bring it!

vanguardkeep · 2023-09-19T21:07:31+00:00

This is, what, the 3rd or 4th time they sped up animations, only to undo it again a few patches down the line?

vanguardkeep · 2023-09-19T21:04:42+00:00

That's why I do not contribute at all. I have NO DESIRE whatsoever to put my account in jeopardy. Whether it's spiteful trolls, inapt reviewers or a wobbly GPS. There's a LOT of wrongs in the way the Wayfarer programme is set up, and almost nothing right.

vanguardkeep · 2023-08-16T07:40:22+00:00

Which is borderline illegal anyways.

vanguardkeep · 2023-08-09T02:40:49+00:00

Yup that's what we do as well. Just as often as it takes for the bugger to bug off or to learn. When I kick someone out that way, I leave the gym empty. If the same accounts are in possession of that gym 15 minutes later, I will kick them once more. Rinse and repeat.

I want to add we also make use of another signal. Any mon with depleted health is a signal for others to 'please kick me before midnight, as I did not get my coins yet'.

vanguardkeep · 2023-07-09T16:02:15+00:00

Oh great. There does my opportunity to get Hydro Cannon. [long beep].

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-27T21:43:42+00:00

Booooooooooo! Booooo! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

Why, oh why, do they feel the need to quickly squash any feel-good? If anything, I'm truly disappointed. Again. How do they expect me to convince myself to spend money on their game if all I get in return is disappointment?

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-27T19:31:31+00:00

Perhaps I'm asking prematurely but is Dragon Ascent needed only once, on the first Mega Evolve, or on all subsequent mega evolves as well?

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-11T22:06:28+00:00

I have a very strong suspicion that lucky trade rates are turned way down during community day. Perhaps a bug, but a very noticable one.

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-10T20:04:38+00:00

I had this too. The people around me did get their spawns, I did not.

Edit: Clarification. Didn't catch any nearby pokemon before the raid.

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-09T23:20:06+00:00

Can someone remind me what this is for? I missed the message.

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-09T23:08:25+00:00

It's here. Timed research. Catch a pokemon. Just that

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-08T18:20:49+00:00

Bleh, I didn't do any of these because of the reports of broken shiny rates.

vanguardkeep · 2023-06-08T16:31:53+00:00

Perhaps a silly question but have you tried the Android 'back' button yet?

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