I am using the PC version. No VPN
Downloaded from Electrum website.
Am i boned?
Thank you for your responses
Topic: electrum wallet recovery with 12 words - page 2. (Read 525 times)
Thanks for your reply
I checked BIP39 and followed that through. It generated a wallet but the balance was 0.
I have retried with older version (3.03 which i think is what the wallet was originally generated with) and 3.01 but they wont get past the synchronising stage..
Thank you again.
Which wallet you currently using right now the Electrum mobile version or the PC version? I checked BIP39 and followed that through. It generated a wallet but the balance was 0.
I have retried with older version (3.03 which i think is what the wallet was originally generated with) and 3.01 but they wont get past the synchronising stage..
Thank you again.
Make sure that you are not using any VPN in your Android phone and if you are using PC version make sure that you download it to the correct website it should be https://electrum.org
If you download it on different website URL it's a fake one beware.
Thanks for your reply
I checked BIP39 and followed that through. It generated a wallet but the balance was 0.
I have retried with older version (3.03 which i think is what the wallet was originally generated with) and 3.01 but they wont get past the synchronising stage..
Thank you again.
I checked BIP39 and followed that through. It generated a wallet but the balance was 0.
I have retried with older version (3.03 which i think is what the wallet was originally generated with) and 3.01 but they wont get past the synchronising stage..
Thank you again.
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Have you tried selecting Options below the seed input box and checking BIP39 there? It shouldn't be required since you generated your wallet using Electrum but it's worth trying out. Alternatively, you can temporary downgrade Electrum if that doesn't work (previous releases).
Hello,
I have this same problem.
I have the seed written down and saved and have entered it many times but the next button remains greyed out.
I have restored this wallet before so i am sure this is the seed phrase! some of the words in my phrase are in that big master list, but others arent. It was Electrum that generated the seed, i am using version 3.3.6
Any help would be much appreciated.
I have this same problem.
I have the seed written down and saved and have entered it many times but the next button remains greyed out.
I have restored this wallet before so i am sure this is the seed phrase! some of the words in my phrase are in that big master list, but others arent. It was Electrum that generated the seed, i am using version 3.3.6
Any help would be much appreciated.
Was the SEED created by Electrum through "Create a new SEED" option or the SEED was created through other tools like iancoleman.io and you used the "I already have a SEED" option to make a wallet using it?
If it is the latter, you cannot use an Android version to restore your wallet because it doesn't support "real" BIP39 SEED.
Usually, people who want to create a SegWit "3" address using Electrum do that.
If it is the latter, you cannot use an Android version to restore your wallet because it doesn't support "real" BIP39 SEED.
Usually, people who want to create a SegWit "3" address using Electrum do that.
See here for things you can try.
However, it is possible that the OP has simply got one of the BIP39 words incorrect... there are very similar words in the list... things like kit/kite, kid/kind, keep/keen etc
Thus, it's also possible that OP didn't write the word in sequence, perhaps might jumbled sequence of words.This is why I don't save my passphrase in my laptop or anything online and just wrote it down in paper and made multiple copies.
Hope you still recover your bitcoin.
The Android Electrum wallet has it's own builtin keyboard that prevents you entering "non" BIP39 wordlist words... Once you type in the first character of a word, ONLY characters contained in BIP39 wordlist words are available to type and you have to select a word from the presented list:
However, it is possible that the OP has simply got one of the BIP39 words incorrect... there are very similar words in the list... things like kit/kite, kid/kind, keep/keen etc
However, it is possible that the OP has simply got one of the BIP39 words incorrect... there are very similar words in the list... things like kit/kite, kid/kind, keep/keen etc
best way is to go on PC and then do that, make sure you check spellings of each word you type on google, typos are common
LIKE color -> colour
LIKE color -> colour
it is not safe to enter your seed elsewhere specially online ("on google" that you mentioned). Electrum (desktop version) has the option to show you a preview of the possible words as you type the first 3 letters of each word and that should be more than enough for spell check.
I created a wallet on or near december 31st 2018 with electrum. This was my first time using an electrum wallet and i wrote down everythin that looked important including the public key and the recovery passphrase.
there is some bitcoin in the wallet now and im trying to recover it because the notebook crashed and wont start at all. So Ive borrowed a friends notebook which is running android. I was running windows before.
Ive read other threads concerning this issue but I'm not sure how to solve the problem.
I'm absolutely sure there are only 12 words and that they are spelled correctly.
I'm using the electrum wallet from the google play store downloaded as of today, may 18th.
the next button is greyed out so I cant continue.
the wallet still has the coins in them according to the public key lookup.
Any help here?
there is some bitcoin in the wallet now and im trying to recover it because the notebook crashed and wont start at all. So Ive borrowed a friends notebook which is running android. I was running windows before.
Ive read other threads concerning this issue but I'm not sure how to solve the problem.
I'm absolutely sure there are only 12 words and that they are spelled correctly.
I'm using the electrum wallet from the google play store downloaded as of today, may 18th.
the next button is greyed out so I cant continue.
the wallet still has the coins in them according to the public key lookup.
Any help here?
make sure you select words not type them, sometimes you add extra space by mistake.
best way is to go on PC and then do that, make sure you check spellings of each word you type on google, typos are common
LIKE color -> colour
I created a wallet on or near december 31st 2018 with electrum. This was my first time using an electrum wallet and i wrote down everythin that looked important including the public key and the recovery passphrase.
there is some bitcoin in the wallet now and im trying to recover it because the notebook crashed and wont start at all. So Ive borrowed a friends notebook which is running android. I was running windows before.
Ive read other threads concerning this issue but I'm not sure how to solve the problem.
I'm absolutely sure there are only 12 words and that they are spelled correctly.
I'm using the electrum wallet from the google play store downloaded as of today, may 18th.
the next button is greyed out so I cant continue.
the wallet still has the coins in them according to the public key lookup.
Any help here?
there is some bitcoin in the wallet now and im trying to recover it because the notebook crashed and wont start at all. So Ive borrowed a friends notebook which is running android. I was running windows before.
Ive read other threads concerning this issue but I'm not sure how to solve the problem.
I'm absolutely sure there are only 12 words and that they are spelled correctly.
I'm using the electrum wallet from the google play store downloaded as of today, may 18th.
the next button is greyed out so I cant continue.
the wallet still has the coins in them according to the public key lookup.
Any help here?
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