None of the methods above Community Manager suggested worked. What worked at least temporarily for me:
1. Uninstall EA app and reboot
2. Install Origin (the predecessor of EA app)
3. If you open Origin, it will show a screen which shuts you off from its access and tells you to install EA app. Ignore this for now
4. Origin will go through all installed games, verify hashes, etc.
5. After all hashing and downloading has completed, install EA app and uninstall Origin from Origin's block screen
It works so far for me now. If anyone else is having similar problems give it a shot
How did you pull down the EA notification to switch to their app. Everytime I attempt to route through origin I cant exit out of the EA screen to switch apps to do anything.
You can't. But I only needed Origin to go through already installed games to hash them etc. so didn't need to do anything inside Origin anyway
