Disclaimer:
I am not sure where I should ask this question: feel free to reroute me to some other location if this one is not appropriate.
This bug report / question can be found here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55008300/rare-exception-android-accounts-authenticatorexception-servicedisabled-what

How to reproduce:
I can send an email with the google account + password to reproduce this bug, but will not disclose it here.

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My email app is using AccountManager to access GMail (with OAuthToken ) and it's working fine, except that I now have a peculiar exception that happens only with a specific Google account.

This seems to be a quite new behavior

Here is the error is:

W/System.err: android.accounts.AuthenticatorException: ServiceDisabled
W/System.err: at android.accounts.AccountManager.convertErrorToException(AccountManager.java:2507)
W/System.err: at android.accounts.AccountManager.-wrap0(Unknown Source:0)
W/System.err: at android.accounts.AccountManager$AmsTask$Response.onError(AccountManager.java:2350)
W/System.err: at android.accounts.IAccountManagerResponse$Stub.onTransact(IAccountManagerResponse.java:69)
W/System.err: at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:697)

Questions:

---> What exactly does the "android.accounts.AuthenticatorException: ServiceDisabled" error means?
---> Why on earth is this only happening with this google account? (and probably for some other ones, but this seems really rare as per users feedback). Should I check some Android Google account Settings for this accounts..? Which ones?

So, same code goes well for about 10 accounts I tested on my Phone, and it fails with this very specific Google account! Why?

Note:

According to the owner of this account, the app was working before, and suddenly stopped working: I am in the process of investigating when it happens and if he can give me some hints about some possible actions he took at that time.

Thanks beforehand for your help.

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Some info I gathered:

I managed to debug this a bit and found that the stacktrace go further in cpp:

jboolean res = env->CallBooleanMethod(mObject, gBinderOffsets.mExecTransact,
code, (int32_t)&data, (int32_t)reply, flags);

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/f76a50c/core/jni/android_util_Binder.cpp

I found out that "res = onTransact(code, data, reply, flags);" (i.e. android.accounts.IAccountManagerResponse$Stub.onTransact(IAccountManagerResponse.java:69) from AIDL) is called with

code = 2 (probably android.accounts.AccountManager.VISIBILITY_USER_MANAGED_VISIBLE = 2)
data : a Parcel Object
reply : another Parcel Object
flags = 17

Which seems fine, and works for all other Google accounts!

I also found out that the error code in AccountManager.convertErrorToException was code ERROR_CODE_INVALID_RESPONSE

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