Help lost my elctrum wallet details (6 digit password) Please help

donovank

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In cases like this, it's probably healty to assume your screwed.
After cursing yourself, send an email to the devs of the wallet and hope for the best. It might take a while, but be patient. Anything is better than nothing.

And learn from your mistakes, had a simmular problem recently and since then I have been ever so carefull with my data Cheesy

semobo

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Quote from: Josepht on December 17, 2017, 07:54:32 AM

How I understand this situation now, is that your phone has a password, not the wallet itself, right?

If that is the case, you should do the following:
Connect your phone to your PC. Search the phone for the file 'wallet.dat'.

Copy that file to your PC, and download a wallet like Electrum. In Electrum, there should be an option to load the wallet.dat file.
Now you can spend your BTC from your Electrum wallet.

Even if you load wallet on your pc it still ask for password so you can't spend your bitcoin of you can't remember your password,but he said it is a 6 digit password so it maybe brute force.
For the people who storing bitcoin please save all the details about the waplet in an offline drive it is essential because we need those details incase of phone or system failure.

Josepht

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How I understand this situation now, is that your phone has a password, not the wallet itself, right?

If that is the case, you should do the following:
Connect your phone to your PC. Search the phone for the file 'wallet.dat'.

Copy that file to your PC, and download a wallet like Electrum. In Electrum, there should be an option to load the wallet.dat file.
Now you can spend your BTC from your Electrum wallet.

Kotone

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Quote from: purplemerit on December 17, 2017, 07:31:54 AM

First post here so hope its in the right place.

I have an old phone with some btc on it. I no longer have the passcode or seed. The passcode is a simpe 6 digit number. I have tried for days to guess what it might have been but i cannot. I managed to get the wallet data file off. I have been told that if the kdf is extracted from this its easy enough to get my password back.
A bit out of my depth here im into plants and herbs not computer jargon.

Happy to pay for help or a walk through. There are over 0.4 btc in the wallet. Which is a lot of money.

Thank you

:-)

This is something that is heartbreaking for anyone that would be affected by this however I believe that there are some trusted and reliable applications and prigrams that you can run to help you on this. In the future you should try making duplicates of your pssword to avoid this again

Welsh

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Quote from: purplemerit on December 17, 2017, 07:47:48 AM

I have sets of numbers that i normally use. i have tried them all and none of the work. :-)

If that's the case, then you've likely made a typo and it should be relatively easy to find it. Obviously, this is based on how accurate the information you have on the wallet. But, if you have used a combination of digits for passwords before you'll be able to either look for a typo or identify patterns that you use in your passwords.

I would suggest trying out btcrecover, but if you can't get that to work then you should contact: https://walletrecoveryservices.com/

purplemerit

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I have sets of numbers that i normally use. i have tried them all and none of the work. :-)

Welsh

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Do you know any of the password at all? 6 digits isn't too bad. If the password only consists of digits and not letters/special characters, then it might be possible to brute force it. But, if you know that parts of the password then it will shorten the time to guess the password.

You can use the program btcrecover, Electrum wallets are supported. It has a tutorial which you can follow step by step to try and get the password:

btcrecover: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
btcrecover tutorial: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md

purplemerit

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First post here so hope its in the right place.

I have an old phone with some btc on it. I no longer have the passcode or seed. The passcode is a simpe 6 digit number. I have tried for days to guess what it might have been but i cannot. I managed to get the wallet data file off. I have been told that if the kdf is extracted from this its easy enough to get my password back.
A bit out of my depth here im into plants and herbs not computer jargon.

Happy to pay for help or a walk through. There are over 0.4 btc in the wallet. Which is a lot of money.

Thank you

:-)

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