Tor not working (neither Price nor Exchange)

[ghost]

Describe the bug
When set to tor only mode, neither the price works, nor the exchange.

Platform:

• OS: Android 14
• Device: Pixel 7 Pro
• Cake Wallet Version: 4.16.0

Additional context
At first glance it looks like the tor functionality was never even fully tested after #1158

Possibly related to #883 and #1139

[tuxpizza]

Hi, Cake Wallet currently does not have a built-in Tor daemon, however this feature is coming soon. In order to use the Tor options in Cake, you must run a separate Tor service on your device like Orbot.

[ghost]

@tuxpizza I would recommend putting an "alpha" label on this project, given its half-baked nature.

To not warn users that core functionality referenced in the UI is lacking is quite inexcusable for a product that requires this level of trust.

[tuxpizza]

Those toggles say "Tor only", meaning it will only attempt to connect over an Onion URL, not that the app would run a Tor service itself. Many other apps rely on an external service to use Tor. These options were added (AFAIK) quite a long time ago and they have only ever been dedicated Onion URLs. With the existing Monero libs, proper app-wide Tor support wouldn't have been very much possible, but with updated Monero libs in the next few weeks it will have a built-in Tor service that will cover the entire app.

Its possible we could explain it better, change the terminology, or add a link to the guide on that Privacy settings page to make it easier to know how to use Tor with Cake (https://guides.cakewallet.com/docs/advanced-features/tor-with-orbot/) but like I mentioned, Cake will have its own Tor service implemented very soon.

To add, that Merged PR you mentioned does not mean that feature is enabled in a production release yet, and as you can see it still has a "Waiting Tests" label. In this case, some preliminary code was merged, but the feature is not enabled/fully working yet.