"There was a problem communicating with Google servers, try again later" error

Question

Yet another occurrence of this when setting up a new phone, in this case a OnePlus 5 with the H2OS (Chinese) OS. I installed the current Oxygen OS official 9.0.9 from XDA, used the OnePlus transfer, and despite many strategies, could not get rid of this error.
I tried:



Wiping the cache, other data in Google Play

Ditto other Google services

turned off WIFI, turned on, etc.

Reboot

Reinstalled Google play

Installed Google APK from APK store



I had seen these elsewhere working for some folks.


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Answer

Finally the only thing that worked for me was doing a factory reset.

Hope one of these approaches works for others!

Having more potential solutions in your tool box increases your chances of success.



YMMV "Good luck, Jim!"


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