Android Wallet app can't access my bitcoins

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Quote from: jratcliff63367 on August 28, 2013, 07:25:55 PM

If it's any help to anyone else. I 'fixed' this by uninstalling the Android bitcoin wallet, then reinstalled it, and then imported my backup wallet. Once it synced back up fully I was able to 'spend' my coins again. I don't know how/why it got into that 'stuck' state.

However, I would still like to know how you could import the encrypted android wallet into *another* wallet application. Maybe that's not possible, but it would be a nice feature to have.

Thanks,

John

If you get the private keys, you should be able to import them to any wallet (some need different wallet formatting than others though)

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Quote from: jratcliff63367 on August 28, 2013, 07:25:55 PM

If it's any help to anyone else. I 'fixed' this by uninstalling the Android bitcoin wallet, then reinstalled it, and then imported my backup wallet. Once it synced back up fully I was able to 'spend' my coins again. I don't know how/why it got into that 'stuck' state.

However, I would still like to know how you could import the encrypted android wallet into *another* wallet application. Maybe that's not possible, but it would be a nice feature to have.

Thanks,

John

John, you can indeed import your exported keys into another wallet. The specifics would be in the wallet program that you want to import into. Some accept a text file, some only support one format or another. In principle if you have your private keys, you can eventually get them into any wallet you want, you just may need to do a bit of formatting in order to make that happen.

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If it's any help to anyone else. I 'fixed' this by uninstalling the Android bitcoin wallet, then reinstalled it, and then imported my backup wallet. Once it synced back up fully I was able to 'spend' my coins again. I don't know how/why it got into that 'stuck' state.

However, I would still like to know how you could import the encrypted android wallet into *another* wallet application. Maybe that's not possible, but it would be a nice feature to have.

Thanks,

John

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I've been using the Android Wallet app for quite some time without any problems. But, today, when I went to use it, it won't let me send any of my bitcoins. I generally keep no more than about $100 worth of BTC on my phone at any given time, but still that's money I would rather not lose if necessary.

It shows how much BTC I have (0.49) but if I try to send money it says 'Available for Spending : BTC 0.00 : (BTC 0.49 waiting for confirmation)

If it's 'waiting' it's been waiting for a long time as I haven't used the app for quite a while.

Not sure how to get this kick-started again.

There is an option to 'backup' your encryption keys, which is nice, and I've done that, however, there are no instructions on how to load it into another app?? I tried doing google searches to find an answer to this question and I couldn't.

If I take the encrypted wallet file that it 'backed up', can I just copy it to my Bitcoin-QT directory and rename it as 'wallet.dat' and get access to it that way? Is there some other app which can load this backed up wallet file?

This is with using the standard Bitcoin Android wallet app.

Any ideas how to get my $60 'unstuck' would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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