Aurora Store issues March 2024
Background and Problem
I've been having lots of trouble with Aurora Store for the past 7 days or so. I've only ever used Aurora with the Anonymous account option, and I don't want to login with my Google account.
- Device:
Pixel 7
- OS:
GrapheneOS 2024031400
- Aurora Store:
v 4.4.2
- Installation Method:
via Obtainium
(with GitLab Personal Access Token)
My setup is:
- Owner profile: main profile/daily driver without Sandboxed Google Play services + Aurora Store
- Secondary user profile: ancillary profile with Sandboxed Google Play services + Aurora Store
On the main Owner profile, Aurora will not work and I receive the following variety of error messages when trying to log in via Anonymous:
Internal error! Please retry after some time
length=3; index=-1
- and eventually:
Oops, You a rate limited
If I try to login via Anonymous (insecure) I receive: Server down for maintenance
On the secondary user profile, Aurora Store works perfectly fine, i.e., I am able to log in via a shared account with the Anonymous option, and browse, search, and update apps for this user profile.
Ineffective Solutions Tried
- Force stop Aurora Store > Clear Cache > Re-launch
- Restart OS/device
- Disable then enable Aurora Store app
Nothing has worked. I haven't re-installed the app because I am unsure of the implications for the already-installed, existing apps on both of my profiles (Owner and secondary).
Thank you for reading all this, and any input/possible solution is greatly appreciated!
I really am reticent to install Google Play services to fetch and manage apps via the Play Store, as I don't want to give Network permissions to GMS, but I am starting to think Aurora Store may be too unreliable, sadly (obviously Google's doing, and not de devs).
P.S.: I have read through issue #1062 on Aurora's GitLba repo, and others are having the same/similar issue. I am considering cross-posting this over there, because IMHO it appears this issue isn't affecting that many users, so I fear it's not getting much attention.