Hi, I installed GOS for the first time about a week ago and (almost) all went well in the beginning but I'm having weird problems now.
Device: Pixel 4a 5G
Build Number: TQ3A.230805.001.2023080800
A bit of background: I have installed sandboxed Google play services though the "Apps" app and they're up to date according to Apps. I have granted Google play services the following permissions: Contacts (fully, not scoped), network, notifications and sensors. I have tested both enabling and disabling "Exploit protection compatibility mode" but "display over other apps" and "modify system settings" are disabled.
Also I usually use proton vpn and I have tried to fix issue n°1 by disabling it, to no avail.
Issue n°1: even though it worked the first time I tried, I have since disconnected the account and I now cannot connect into a google account, regardless of whether I try to do so from the "accounts" section of the settings or by clicking the "sign in" button that appears when starting the Play Store: it just displays a black screen with a google download-looking blue icon and the text "Checking info..." and it stays like that forever.
Issue n°2: a more annoying issue, many apps cannot display some contents, this is very vague so I'm gonna provide a few examples:
In both K-9 Mail and Proton mail apps, with two different email accounts from different providers, everything seems to be working fine except when I click on an email to view its body, the body content never loads at all. All I have is the header with sender, recipient, date etc...
In both Aard 2 and QuickDic offline, open source, dictionary apps a similar thing happens, I can search for entries in dictionaries but the body of the entries never loads and show an empty space instead.
This is an extremely weird issue that I feel may be linked to basic Android UI elements' rendering that may explain why it happens across such a variety of apps.
I wanted to make this post before potentially posting two issues on the issue tracker, please let me know if I should do just that or if anyone has an idea on how to fix my problems!