Whenever I launch the EA app I get a 'temporarily lost connection error'

Started experiencing this problem out of the blue.

I'm having the same problem. Did you figure anything out?

No. I had to do a clean install of windows. Now I can log into the EA app, but can’t play any games. I get the “needs administrator permission “ dialogue box. Can’t find a fix. So frustrating!

When I tell you I tried everything and I mean EVERYTHING to fix this and nothing worked until:  what I noticed in my case was that for the IPV4 it said there was no connection which is why it registered as me not being connected to the internet at all when in fact I was...partly. 

So to fix this what I did was configure the network adapter to obtain the DNS Server Address Automatically. Like this:

1. Press Win + R to open Run.
2. Type ncpa.cpl and click OK to open Network Connection in Control Panel.
3. Right-click on your network connection and select Properties.
4. In the Properties dialog, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP) and click on the Properties button. You can also double-click on IPv4 to access its Properties.
5. Next, select the Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically options.
6. Next, select Validate settings upon exit and click OK to save the changes.

Later edit: to check wether you have problems with IPV4 or IPV6, you can right-click on your network sign (the one in the bottom right corner of the screen) and than click Open Network and Sharing Center. Than click on your blue network (under the "View your active networks" part) and see if for any of them it says "No connection available" or something similar. If for both of them it says "Internet" meaning that you are connected, this is not the issue you are facing and the steps I mentioned won't help unfortunately. 

Disclaimer*: try it on your own responsability as I don't work in IT and I don't know if this can ruin your PC with anything :D For me it worked though.

Fingers crossed. 

Hey for anyone still having this problem, i managed to get mine working, turns out it wasnt EA being dumb, it was my AV software for some reason blocking, i use kaspersky which has been problematic for a while now but got the EA app running again; after many angry reports to EA. Found it on the following thread - https://forum.kaspersky.com/topic/kaspersky-total-sec-suddenly-started-blocking-certain-connections-29939/

So for anyone who uses kaspersky and has this issue, this could help. Not sure about other AV programs, but this could be helpful.

Try restarting your router. Even if you think your internet is fine. For me my browser worked fine but later realised some programs were being flaky.

My solution :-

go to start menu

Find the EA folder in the Start Menu

Click on the "App Recovery"

When it open, click on the "clear cache"

Done. You may have to sign in again.

Uninstalling the app (from the control panel in win10) and reinstalling it by downloading the installer and running it again, seems to have fixed it for me.

Edit: Seems to actually be connection issues to EA's services.

As crazy as it sounds, i had this same issue and nothing worked. I simply restarted my router and Broadband box and that fixed it for me.

I had the same problem after sims 4 crashed, so I've decided to reinstall the EA app.

When I went to task manager and clicked uninstall, EA app gave me two options: uninstall, and repair. So I chose the repair, waited a few minutes and it's working again!