Originally Posted by
Heindrich
I botted to lv32 before the first major perma ban-wave and stopped using bots at that point. I have however used Nox a bit since then and continued to use a Chinese IOS hack for GPS spoofing. Considering that I've aggressively taken 10 gyms everyday near where I live I've been quite surprised that I have evaded the dreaded banhammer thus far.
Today, I woke up, logged in (on legit app) and checked my squad to see how many gyms I lost overnight and then switched off the app. 20mins later I tried to login on my Chinese hacked app, but got the "Unable to authenticate. Please Try Again." login error. I tried again from my legit app and got the same problem. I assumed that meant account banned, RIP... especially since my parents could login perfectly fine on their legit accounts. However, less than 30mins later, I randomly tried again and the problem was gone, I even caught a random rattata that spawned in my house to confirm that I wasn't even soft-banned.
Does anyone know what's going on there? Did I get banned and unbanned in the space of an hour? Or was this simply server error?
tldr: I got banned and unbanned in a 1 hr period. Anyone else experienced something like this?