MicroG setup - no connection to Google servers

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Hello together,

I searched within the forum, but couldn’t find an answer to my question. If I missed an already existing thread, I’m sorry, please link it.
I’m trying to setup and enable MicroG, in order to get a banking app running (SecureGo, should work with MicroG). Unfortunately, I am not able to get a connection to the Google Servers.
In the self check, all checks are set. But when I go on adding a Google account, it stucks at building up the connection to the Google Servers no matter how long a wait (for 10 Minutes, nothing happens).

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Can you please help me? What is the failure here?

Thanks in advance.

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If the app need Gaccount to work, you may have to first add the Gaccount in the system account manager before select it in microG settings, isn’t it ?
Otherwise registering is not a requirement for most app

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Hi Rauschwalbe.

Not sure if I can help. But I try. At first on my (Fairphone 3 plus) with /e/ the app you are talking about runs perfectly fine.

I wonder about your lines if you say “…trying to setup and enable…”. On my phone right after installing /e/ microG was installed already. I was able to open the microG settings, to logon with a Google account and to register the device. Afterwards I installed the VR banking app via Aurora Store (could not find a different trusting source) and was able to start and to configure this app.

So what is different to your environment?

Mathias

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Hello @piero and @mathias.schmidt,

thanks for your answers. Reading them gets me the impression that maybe I got the whole MicroG app wrong. I thought, that I don’t have to have to connect a Google account to my phone. In fact, I deleted my Google Account yesterday completely, because I don’t need it anymore.

[quote=“mathias.schmidt, post:3, topic:32148”]
On my phone right after installing /e/ microG was installed already.
[/quote] Same here.
With “setup” I mean, that I opened the App and tried to get it running. I also was able to set the MicroG settings. But on the next step, connecting to the Google Servers, nothing happenend.
I thought, the whole point of MicroG is, that it fakes a Google Account and I don’t have to connect my phone with an actual Google Account. To be honest, I’m not sure what the use of MicroG is, when I first have to add the Gaccount in the system account manager?

But it looks like, as if this is the different to your environment?

Thanks and kind regards