Lost coins (android wallet)

AcidD

Is the android wallet on the phone synced ?

Do you have a copy of your private keys for all your receiving addresses ? The ones on your phone.

featherhead

@acidd I am not much of a nerd, so where do I get private keys from?

featherhead

Sorry if it sounds like I am calling you a nerd, I am just upset. But really where do I go on my android phone to get the private key?

wrapper

I am concerned that you have not sent it to the wallet, but i don’t know the address you sent it to.

So, you will have to try searching for it …

http://explorer.feathercoin.com/tx/43715032670001e91b8cae56689f9fbf544d1e044df070a4255804c612c7a7fa#i1

AcidD

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

Sorry if it sounds like I am calling you a nerd, I am just upset. But really where do I go on my android phone to get the private key?

Hey dont worry. it’s not a problem. I can understand your frustration.

I’d just like to Say, Feathercoin and other crypto currencies are not some kind of play around online token. This isn’t Tesco clubcard points… This is REAL money. Digital Gold. I always advise everyone who gets into to crypto to read and understand it.

Understand what your private and public keys are…and I mean really understand it.

let me try to help.

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The receiving address that you sent the coins to - this is on your phone?

Type the receiving address into a Feathercoin block explorer. Do you see your funds there ?

featherhead

@acidd the receiving address is 6qG8WFT2Drw1526FoEZpWqYPvKQQtQo4is for the android phone.

AcidD

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@acidd the receiving address is 6qG8WFT2Drw1526FoEZpWqYPvKQQtQo4is for the android phone.

Ok on the android wallet, there should be an option to backup your private keys to a password protected file.

If you see that receiving address on your android phone then you should be able to back up the private key for it.

So do this as a first step and then make sure you can access your private key for that receiving address on a secure/virus free computer.

featherhead

@acidd so the computer has to run by android or windows?

AcidD

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@acidd so the computer has to run by android or windows?

i’m sorry I have no idea what you mean.

let me try to rephrase.

1 - when you backup the android wallet. It saves the Backup as a password protected file to your “external storage” on your phone.

2 - when you plug a USB cable into your android phone and plug it into your Virus free computer, you should be able to read the android phone as an “External Drive”

3 - Navigate around the external drive till you find the folder where you saved your Wallet Backup.

4 - Copy it to your Virus free computer and see if you can access/see with your own eyes/read the private key for your receiving address

Once you have done the above, ping back in the forums and we can work on getting you access to your coins.

AcidD

@featherhead did you manage to solve this ?

featherhead

@acidd I see a file named “feather coin wallet keys”. I copied it to a virus free computer but what program do I open it with. MS word or notepad?

AcidD

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@acidd I see a file named “feather coin wallet keys”. I copied it to a virus free computer but what program do I open it with. MS word or notepad?

Great news.

Yes you can open them in Notepad - Give it a try and see, it will help you learn. If you open them in Notepad you’ll see something like this

U2FsdGVkX197ZtqOAVA7bdpnETt505cEgv61vki3tDyMqS7yQiboKThcsu7X4Lhb2YcC1bXYBfvz
nf7lr4ORR9AdFR19Ekc3L5nkFhCrpknpftpze/VazsWuW3NjP3OMLIBP3yoV//I97slPdh1yRLk6
yesJEslfR0/v4CmmOu6nqFOPAHaaz8I7vXdkFBJt4YjrBElwyQ+fnmhAtTEqGAh3DEayz8yyOmx2
zEkmIouLR1+PSpAlnqPqQL88wOdIS0R5C89Ps398/eC+DQytIqHC/29K00kOjSTUah30sacIXm2Y
CFwdYAuF0TDpZ3u5OLda7z6zqzdcKRubQyl0VQ==

This would be your list of private keys, encrypted.

To decrypt them you need to use OPENSSL.

1 - Install OpenSSL for windows
2 - open command prompt (as admin)
3 - navigate to your wallet backup (cd c:\somefolder\someuser\somedesktop\ )

type this command

openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a -in <filename>

filename is would be the name of the Feathecoin Wallet Backup you used.

To help you understand this more, here’s a screenshot of the example I’m working with.

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I hope this helps.

Wellenreiter

@acidd Can you create a howto for this?

moving private keys from an Android wallet to a qt based client is not straight forward, so a HowTo will help

AcidD

@wellenreiter said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@acidd Can you create a howto for this?

Yep - will put some time into it this week.

moving private keys from an Android wallet to a qt based client is not straight forward, so a HowTo will help

Secretly once you install openSSL its really not that hard.

What I actually did was download the precompiled binaries of OpenSSL for windows, extracted to my desktop, temporarily added the OpenSSL BIN path to my PATH environment and then just ran the above line.

reverting from this is very easy as you just remove the PATH env variable you set and then delete the folder on the desktop…so it’s all quite “portable”

Its even easier on linux or macOS as you can just install openssl and run from the commandline

featherhead

@acidd I am still working on the CMD program. I already downloaded openSSL.

AcidD

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@acidd I am still working on the CMD program. I already downloaded openSSL.

@featherhead

http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/9216/guide-how-to-recover-private-keys-from-the-android-featherwallet/3

if you follow that guide, you should be able to get to the point of being able to read your private keys. If you’ve gotten there, ping us back and we can work on importing them to your desktop QT wallet.

AcidD

@featherhead - just checking in to see if you’ve managed to solve this yet?

AcidD

So this is what happened…

@featherhead got a new android wallet and sent the FTC to the addresss it generated
6qG8WFT2Drw1526FoEZpWqYPvKQQtQo4is

I dont know what happened, maybe they didnt wait for the wallet to sync long enough…the wallet showed zero… without backing up, the app was uninstalled and then reinstalled… a new wallet address was generated… at this point they contacted us on the forums and made a backup and I was able to transfer his private key from his android backup to his desktop wallet… unfortunately the backup was made after he had reinstalled the application.

Unless there’s some way to roll back the android app or somehow recover how the data was stored, I think these are lost.

Wellenreiter

@acidd , @featherhead

no there is no way to roll back and recover the original address the coins where sent to.
A backup of a wallet’s private keys survive an uninstall/reinstall of the wallet in Android, but if there is no backup made from the original wallet there is no chance.

I hope it isn’t too much you are loosing

featherhead

@wellenreiter at the time I bought them they were cheap so as the price goes up I will be kicking myself but I still have faith in trading coins, just not my tech ability. Lesson learned!