Lost coins (android wallet)

[AcidD]

So this is what happened…

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

[AcidD]

@featherhead said in Lost coins (android wallet):

@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!

I’m marking this as solved, since we now know what happened with the coins.

I’m really sorry for this loss. Keep the faith in FTC anyways!