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barmstrong / bitcoin-android

Send and receive bitcoins from your Android phone!
https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android
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Block chain updating problem #29

Open ancross opened 13 years ago

ancross commented 13 years ago

Hi.

First it was downloading block chain for three days, crashing from time to time.

And now (when it was only ~6000 block to download) it show status "Syncing with network... 100% 100/100" - this syncing process is taking secound day right now.

I'm using version 1.1 and HTC Desire

paci commented 13 years ago

I have more or less the same problem: it never sync, on my HTC Desire HD. Version 1.1. The spinner is always rotating ...

(BTW, how do you see which blocks has downloaded?)

ancross commented 13 years ago

Hi. At the beginning, just after installing app , there was progress bar with status info ( something like 131 / 1298383 ). But after a while there is only "connecting to peers" info ( you must hit menu button, and then "refresh").

As I see there is no replay from author of app, so probably it will stay that way.

If you like to use bitcoins on your device, i recommend bitcoin wallet from android market. I'm using it for a week now, without any problems. (link for app: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&feature=search_result )

On 8 August 2011 16:09, paci < reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

I have more or less the same problem: it never sync, on my HTC Desire HD. Version 1.1. The spinner is always rotating ...

(BTW, how do you see which blocks has downloaded?)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android/issues/29#issuecomment-1754394

paci commented 13 years ago

Never seen the progress bar with status info, but maybe I've missed it: it's been days since I tried to use this software without success. Do you know any ways I can try to retrieve the bitcoins I have sent to it and that I'm unable to see on this wallet?

And thanks for recommending "bitcoin wallet", it is working perfectly.

ancross commented 13 years ago

Hi. I'm afraid that there is no easy way to get your BTC back. Probably if there was some way to download wallet.dat, or just to get your private key. Then maybe you could use it on your PC, but for now I have no idea how to do that.

On 10 August 2011 08:39, paci < reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Never seen the progress bar with status info, but maybe I've missed it: it's been days since I tried to use this software without success. Do you know any ways I can try to retrieve the bitcoins I have sent to it and that I'm unable to see on this wallet?

And thanks for recommending "bitcoin wallet", it is working perfectly.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android/issues/29#issuecomment-1770294

barmstrong commented 12 years ago

The progress bar can be pulled up by hitting the menu key and tapping 'refresh' on the 1.1 version.

Also, of course I would only expect it to sync over wifi right now.

If you have lost coins, there is a work around for this which has solved it for at least one person:

  1. connect your android phone via usb and delete the blockchain.prod file
  2. restart the app on wifi and let it re-download the entire blockchain (this can take 1-5hrs)
  3. once the blockchain completes you can transfer coins off the phone

Hope this solves it and apologies for the trouble! We have shifted our development effort into a better architected mobile app that will hopefully be announced soon. Apologies for the trouble!