how can i use my electrum wallet despite cleared authenticator?

YabaDabaDoo

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Quote from: HCP on January 04, 2018, 11:52:34 PM

Quote from: YabaDabaDoo on January 04, 2018, 09:56:55 PM

Can I try restoring Electrum on another machine with seed keys? Will the private keys of that "restored wallet" be identical to private keys of original wallet?

Yes, if you create the wallet using your 12 word seed mnemonic on another computer, the wallet file will be identical to the original wallet.

If you are stuck on the "Please Wait" screen, you may need to try deleting all the files in the Electrum datadir. The datadir is the one above where the wallets are located... You can find this directory here: docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#where-is-my-wallet-file-located

It has files like: blockchain_headers, config, daemon, recent_servers... and folders like "certs" and "forks"... Delete everything EXCEPT the "wallets" folder and try starting Electrum again.

That worked as I finally got a chance to do it. THx

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Quote from: YabaDabaDoo on January 04, 2018, 09:56:55 PM

Can I try restoring Electrum on another machine with seed keys? Will the private keys of that "restored wallet" be identical to private keys of original wallet?

Yes, if you create the wallet using your 12 word seed mnemonic on another computer, the wallet file will be identical to the original wallet.

If you are stuck on the "Please Wait" screen, you may need to try deleting all the files in the Electrum datadir. The datadir is the one above where the wallets are located... You can find this directory here: docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#where-is-my-wallet-file-located

It has files like: blockchain_headers, config, daemon, recent_servers... and folders like "certs" and "forks"... Delete everything EXCEPT the "wallets" folder and try starting Electrum again.

YabaDabaDoo

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I didnt realize that I enabled Google Authenticator enabled and my previous phone fell into water and died. I've been trying to restore with seeds but it constantly stuck on "Please wait". I read about switching the servers manually and tried 3 different servers and none bypass "Please wait" screen. Can someone recommend a working server?

Can I try restoring Electrum on another machine with seed keys? Will the private keys of that "restored wallet" be identical to private keys of original wallet?

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Do you also have the secret key of your google authenticator?
If you have them you can be still recover your authenticator but if you both authenticator secret key and seed phrase if you don't have them backup.
Its impossible that you can recover it is just like the same as watch wallet.

Are you accidentally reset your phone? there are some phones that even your phone was factory reset the data will be still in the phone i experienced this in samsung phones.
But no installed apps but the data its still in your internet storage.. try this using samsung phones https://www.wikihow.com/Access-Android-System-Files
And try to locate data and check maybe the google authenticator data still there.. so that you can recover it just backup them in your pc and try to install new authenticator and upload your backup..
If this method couldn't work there's no way to recover it..

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Quote from: korgesx on January 04, 2018, 12:03:00 PM

I have now synonymous made but problem still not resolved, in the
install wizard is the whole time only please wait! : - /

Open another wallet file and select a specific server manually. Then try restoring or creating a new wallet again.

korgesx

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I have now synonymous made but problem still not resolved, in the
install wizard is the whole time only please wait! : - /

Abdussamad

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Yes the seed is all and anyone who has that can bypass 2fa protection.

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Quote from: korgesx on January 04, 2018, 07:08:07 AM

Hi everyone,
I'm new here and have a question about the authenticator and the electrum wallet. I got a new phone and forgot to back up my google authenticator data. I read that I can take the confirmation also the mnemonic words, but unfortunately not, there is only a window on where the waletadresse is inside. So what can I do to get my coins back?

1000 thx

Do you have your seed words written down?If you have them then you can solve this problem by creating a new wallet in Electrum / Select :

File - New/Restore / Standard wallet - I already have a seed - Enter your seed - After that you will be given option to keep or disable 2FA.If you pick second option you should get access to your wallet without 2FA.There is a possibility that this will not work 100% because some others users have problems,but you should try this and see can you get access to your wallet.

Abdussamad

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the seed mnemonic is only shown during the wallet setup process. your money is gone:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.27425832

korgesx

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Hi everyone,
I'm new here and have a question about the authenticator and the electrum wallet. I got a new phone and forgot to back up my google authenticator data. I read that I can take the confirmation also the mnemonic words, but unfortunately not, there is only a window on where the waletadresse is inside. So what can I do to get my coins back?

1000 thx

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