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Dogecoin Wallet app for your Android device. Standalone Dogecoin node, no centralized backend required. Forked from the popular Bitcoin Wallet.
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dogecoin-wallet-keys-<date> file #93

Open rfrome opened 3 years ago

rfrome commented 3 years ago

I had the android Dogecoin wallet back in 2014, but I no longer have access to the phone, or the PC I had at the time. I do have the following: 1) the Public wallet ID - I can use it on sites such as dogechain and I do see the coins that were there. 2) several dogecoin-wallet-keys- files that all appear to be encrypted 236 character stings.

Is there any way I can recover the coins in my wallet?

AsaBarthMaron commented 3 years ago

@rfrome If you remember the password(s) for the encrypted files you should be able to decrypt them and then import the private keys into either dogechain or coinomi depending on if you get the WIF or mnemonic phrase.

rfrome commented 3 years ago

@AsaBarthMaron - that's just it, I do not know how to decrypt the dogecoin-wallet-keys files I have. I know the password, but i con not find a tool that would allow that decryption to happen. Do you have a recomendation?

AsaBarthMaron commented 3 years ago

@rfrome That's great news! You should be able to use this method with openssl, then you can import the decrypted private keys. I am more than happy to walk you through it step by step on a chat or call for a small %!

AsaBarthMaron commented 3 years ago

@rfrome Did you end up figuring this out?

rfrome commented 3 years ago

I was able to resolve it another way: from my reddit post

############Success############ Here's to hoping this will help someone in a similar situation.

As a recap, I did have a dogecoin-wallet-keys- file from the old android doge wallet. The files were encrypted, so getting the unencrypted key was my goal. I did know or thought I could guess a password.

As a last resort, I renamed the files I had to add a .keys file extension on them. To my utter surprise, I was able to import that file into Multidoge. Since the file was from early 2014, it didn't take long for Multidoge sync to pick up the import and, "holy shit", it showed the transactions from the wallet!! Now, you can not send or export while Multidoge is sync'ing, so I stopped Multidoge. It took a couple of reboots on my PC to get Multidoge to restart after that, it's kind of an older tool and can be frustrating. Once it had reloaded, I was able to Export the keys. I had to put in my password, (got it one 1 try, fuck yeah!) From there, I was able to take that unencrypted key and import into Dogechain successfully.

In 2014, I bought those coins for .00000nothing so I'm very happy to have access to them. Doge to $10!!!