Unable to link to previously flipped portal.
If a portal was recently flipped, destroyed, and redeployed, despite having a key, you will not be able to link to that portal. This error is problematic for those who wish to fix links or use portals again for farming AP.
Example:
Blue portal is a target, currently linked to wrong portals. Portal is then flipped green, destroyed, then fully redeployed as blue once again. Player moves to another portal, and attempts to link to previous portal, but cannot, despite portal now being the correct color, fully redeployed, and having a key for the portal
This problem I believe also exists for the other team.
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I have same bug with Prime cant link to some portals when i know i can do it. I hope Niantic fix it soon.
I think it's not related to flipping, it just another linking bug. Had same problem yesterday, scanner failed to link from existing portal to just deployed portal (of course I had keys), but reverse link succeeds (good that both portals were near each other in the park)
I literally did this for 3 hours on Saturday and didn't experience this bug once.
I’m an iPhone user, should mention that.
I was doing some fielding at the Mall of America, and I was constantly coming across this problem. I'll record video of it next time.
I was using my AP engine and found this last night. I have screenshots.
The very far left portal was not coming up for linking. I found this from multiple initial portals. It had been linked to previously, I was doing fan fields and jarvising so that I could relink from another portal (hence the few green in view).
I did definitely have keys for the portal. Here's the view of the portal showing 7 keys for it.
And when I got to the portal, I could link back out to the portals I wasn't able to link in from. Here's the view after linking out.
I did that hack to continue with my AP engine here, but as you can see, that's a bit annoying. I was told by others that restarting Prime also clears up this bug.
The United States Army portal was not flipped in recent times, btw -- but I was relinking to it a lot due to the fan field. This particular day was my third run on the portals -- there are 14 anchor portals for the fan field, and I'd done all 14 on previous days this week.