How to restore a wallet with additional words in the seed phrase?

hosseinimr93

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Where did you enter your passphrase (your additional words)? I guess you entered your passphrase along with your seed phrase in "Enter seed" window.
Click on "options", check "BIP39 seed", enter your seed phrase (without your passphrase) and click on "Next". After that, electrum will ask your passphrase in a new window.

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 07:28:19 AM

Strange. I was trying to understand as to why would Electrum "check" the additional words. AFAIK, those are supposed to be random words set by the user, and should not be part of the worldlist so why does Electrum consider it as "invalid"?

Right. Any combination of characters can be used as passphrase and electrum doesn't do any check for the passphrase at all.

OmegaStarScream

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Quote from: ? on Today at 07:24:30 AM

The button works if you don't enter any additional words, but will it be restored? Or will it ask for these additional words later?

A wallet is going to be restored because it's a valid seedphrase, but it's not going to have the funds you're looking for. And no, you won't be able to add them later.

Strange. I was trying to understand as to why would Electrum "check" the additional words. AFAIK, those are supposed to be random words set by the user, and should not be part of the worldlist so why does Electrum consider it as "invalid"?

@hosseinimr93 or @nc50lc might be able to shed more light on this.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 07:17:07 AM

Quote from: ? on Today at 06:54:41 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 06:32:34 AM

On the window where you type the seedphrase, click "Options" and then select "extend the seed with custom words". You should now be able to include the additional words you added before.

Yes, that's what I did, there is no next button, that's the question.

Try to type the seed without the additional words, and without checking that checkmark. If the button is still greyed out, then the issue must be with the original seed you wrote (maybe you mistyped it?) and has nothing to do with the custom words.

The button works if you don't enter any additional words, but will it be restored? Or will it ask for these additional words later?

OmegaStarScream

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Quote from: ? on Today at 06:54:41 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 06:32:34 AM

On the window where you type the seedphrase, click "Options" and then select "extend the seed with custom words". You should now be able to include the additional words you added before.

Yes, that's what I did, there is no next button, that's the question.

Try to type the seed without the additional words, and without checking that checkmark. If the button is still greyed out, then the issue must be with the original seed you wrote (maybe you mistyped it?) and has nothing to do with the custom words.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 06:32:34 AM

On the window where you type the seedphrase, click "Options" and then select "extend the seed with custom words". You should now be able to include the additional words you added before.

Yes, that's what I did, there is no next button, that's the question.

OmegaStarScream

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On the window where you type the seedphrase, click "Options" and then select "extend the seed with custom words". You should now be able to include the additional words you added before.

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I had electrum on my mobile phone, on android, I lost the password for it, for entering the phone. I have a wallet seed phrase, with additional words and a password, what is the best way to restore it on a computer with Windows? I try to enter the seed phrase, add additional words, and the button "next" does not work, although there is a check mark, entering additional words. Or if I know the password, can I restore the wallet easier?

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