MetropleX I should have been more specific and separated those sentences but yes the gear box settings for both Orbot and ProtonVPN were set to "Off" for all of their settings and after that was confirmed I went into Network & Internet to see Mint was acting wonky.
The main app I'm trying to get working on data is MySudo which I know is not technically alpha released for Graphene but they have addressed it and say it's coming and offer Google Framework workarounds but it's still 50/50 on when it will work with Mint data and when it will give me a "wrong country code error".
I'm leaving wifi off for a while and my next challenge is to get banking & payment apps working and last but not least I'll need to have FB messenger for business and that will be on a profile by itself.
As for the mint data; it's currently working through no changes on my part so hopefully the steps you offered above will help me to wake it up next time.