A friend asked me to fix an issue on his phone: he couldn’t connect to the Play Store or Gmail, and kept seeing “Connection problem, try again later.”
After some investigation, here’s what I found.
Common causes:
- Google Play Services has been removed or disabled.
- Google Play Services is outdated — try updating it.
- If you’re using a system cleaner app, make sure Google Play Services is whitelisted — some cleaners kill it in the background.