Can receive bitcoins but not send

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> What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installed bitcoin-wallet on the Desire HD 
2. Transferred 3 bitcoins to bitcoin-wallet
3. Sent bitcoins to others (back to pc, donations etc.)

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to see balance getting lower.
Got popup x BTC sent. But BTC were not received and balance did not change in 
bitcoin-wallet

> What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.11 on Desire HD (ClockworkMod 3.0.2.6, CoreDroid 7.0 GB2.3.3 Themed)

> Please provide any additional information below.
Is it possible as a workaround to copy the wallet file from the device to the 
PC to retrieve the bitcoin balance? 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by snaps...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 9:33

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Can you give me the bitcoin address of your wallet?

Did the sending transactions show up in the transactions list? Is the color 
grey (pending) or black (confirmed)?

One problem is that currently you cannot pay transaction fees:
http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/issues/detail?id=45
This means that transactions can take MUCH longer than expected to be 
confirmed. I've seen confirmation times of several days!

If you start the wallet again, it should retry sending all pending transactions.

Private key transfer to the Satoshi client is planned, but no ETA yet. If you 
really need to recover your 3 BTC now, mail me privately and I can help.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 9:46

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The transactions did not show up in the list at all. It seems the blockchain 
wasn't updating either.

I ran some tests and closed and reopened the application (which didn't seem to 
help), disabled and reenabled wifi (it seems the traffic to update the 
blockchain is blocked on the wifi network by a firewall) - but it still did not 
work.
When I eventually rebootet the device and restartet the app it worked. The 
blockchain was updating and sending and receiving bitcoins worked.
If I see this behaviour again and can reproduce this I will update this issue.

Thanks for the quick reply and offered help anyways!
(I am fully aware that I am using this app 100% on my own risk - but I am 
planning to test that burger bar in berlin that accepts bitcoin so I had to add 
a sufficient amount to the wallet :))

Original comment by snaps...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 10:47

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I found coins could not be spent until receipt had been confirmed. This is a 
restriction imposed by the app not the underlying technology. Better to allow 
immediate spending.

Original comment by kenep...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2012 at 10:59

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@kenepps9 I don't think your coins are gone. Each time you open the app your tx 
will be sent to the network again. Can you mail me if everything fails, I'll 
guide you through installing a test version.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 30 May 2012 at 10:03

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I have the same problem.  Was able to send some BTC to the app, but small 
payments from the app (0.0001, 0.0005, 0.001) all failed - displayed wallet 
balance is deducted, transaction details show a reasonable looking hash and 
length, but status shows as "unknown" and funds have never arrived at recipient 
(wallet on my PC.)  

Appreciate any suggestions, and I'm happy to perform any reasonable operation 
to help diagnose the issue...

Original comment by KerryBo...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 6:55

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I tried another small transaction (0.0008), with a small transaction fee 
(0.0005), and it went through.  So I'm guessing app works fine, just nobody 
left on network passing zero fee transactions until they are many days old, if 
at all.  Sad, if this keeps progressing as modeled, then BTC will become 
useless for microtransactions, just like credit cards, due to minimum fee size.

Original comment by KerryBo...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2012 at 2:38

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I am having issues with the testnet client (on Asus TF101) and the real client 
(on a slow Cruz Tablet T301)

My Cruz has about 8BTC stuck on it, and won't download the latest 2 weeks of 
blockchain, so I can't safely send it anywhere.

The TF101 is faster (maybe the reason) and downloads the full blockchain from 
the real bitcoin network just fine, but it has the same problem in testnet.

I have reset my blockchain a couple of times, maybe not enough times, on both 
tablets.  I would like to get my bitcoins back out!  Maybe should have used 
bitcoin-spinner :x

Original comment by kbarr...@metrixmatrix.com on 10 Aug 2012 at 11:55

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@kbarret Testnet is unreliable nowadays, due to network splits. This will 
hopefully be fixed when bitcoin-qt 0.7 is released, switching to Testnet3.

Let's concentrate on your Prodnet wallet. You say it succeeds in downloading 
the whole blockchain. What's your concrete problem with sending coins then? 
Which version of Bitcoin Wallet have you got installed?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2012 at 1:55

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I have similar problem (I sent some bitcoins with no fee), but in my case 
application throw an exception - Android killed an instance. I ran application 
and after this  my phone automaticaly reboot itself. At second time I 
succesfull ran application and I have seen outcome transaction in grey color. A 
few days passed and still nothing changed.

Original comment by mir0xs...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2012 at 4:27

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@mir0xster Your phone rebooting hints at some form of hardware malfunction. 
Everything is possible in this case.

Have a look at

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Free_transaction_relay_policy

and use the trusted peer feature to get your feeless transaction confirmed.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2012 at 4:38

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I have noticed only one reboot since I bought a phone. Maybe its a coincidence. 

Thank you for answer.

Regards.

Original comment by mir0xs...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2012 at 8:13

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I'm closing this on the assumption that transactions just had not enough fee. 
This has been fixed for some time now, so it should not happen again.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2013 at 10:04

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