It was pretty crazy, on Sunday, 7/9 I was able to get. Tron with no issues, honestly way earlier than what we would've preferred (group 12). Tried again same way, same place, same time on Friday (7/14) and they were already out..
We will be there the end of August also and I hope we can get a VQ each of our Epcot days but I know it's not guaranteed and there are people each day who miss out. If it's something you really want to do you may wish to budget for ILL$ to be on the safe side.
It's a pain to do this, but on my Android phone, I go to the Disney World App, open the storage and clear the cache and data. I do this around 6:50 AM. You have to log back into the Disney World app but now your phone won't use the data it has already stored and go get new info. The only thing I do on my phone until 6:59:55 is get ready to join the virtual queue. This also sound trivial but is very important, make sure you have something open looking at time.gov. That will tell you the official time and from what I've researched, its what Disney uses to keep time on their devices. I start my virtual queue attempt at 6:59:57. This has always worked for me for every virtual queue that I have attempted to get into.
What is the purpose of clearing the app cache? I'm not sure what "new info" you would need to get when trying for the virtual queue, outside of a spot in the queue itself, which is what it will be retrieving.
Less than that for us - it was crazy - I still can’t believe it.
Cache is used to store information downloaded to the App. Your phone and PC will look for information in cache before it goes out to the Internet. If it finds what it needs in cache it will use that vice downloading new info. Clearing the cache forces the app to go out to the Internet and download the information you requested.
Last month we were offsite did not get a 7am VQ (we were a bit late so on us).
There are timeslots that become available at 7 am and gradually disappear as they sell out. You can pick as long as it hasn’t sold out yet, I’d think you should be able to get an evening ride as long as you’re going for it once they open up availabilities.
For Tron? According to Thrill Data it's been very random lately. Yesterday it appears to have sold out at 10:30 but the day before it took until 1:15 and the day prior to that it was 3:05. It's still available today.
I think maybe you misunderstood my comment. I'm asking, why would you do this to join the VQ? It is unnecessary - no cache is involved in getting a spot in the VQ. From a technical perspective, it wouldn't make any sense to have something like that cached, and it's certainly not something that 99.99 percent of people joining the VQ do, either.
