Restoring wallet does not load in all HD Accounts

[partyp]

I recently switched from Nexus 5X to the Google Pixel. On my Nexus I had three HD Accounts: Account 1, Account 2, and Account 3.

When I restored wallet using the master seed on my Pixel It only recovered Account 1. This was scary because my two other accounts had money! After some debugging I realized that you have to create the accounts manually on the new phone and then keys auto-magically started showing up again... phew.

Anyways, it would be really helpful if there was some sort of prompt (maybe I missed it) that told the user to do that when restoring a wallet! Or even better, automatically loaded all of the accounts.

Thanks!!

[Giszmo]

Hi @partyp Thanks for reporting this issue. I was almost certain it was an issue already but at least it's not an open issue currently.

I labeled it "bug" because it leads to very real loss of funds. I mean I bet it did. I labeled it "enhancement" because the current zero look-ahead is in line with BIP 44. I labeled it "privacy" cause excessive/extra look-ahead is a privacy issue.

I would love to see this being resolved by having at least optionally a 1-look-ahead on the account level. After importing the 12 words and "finding" account 1 completely, the user should get asked "should I look for further accounts?" (We could "find" further accounts even without leaking addresses by "just" matching the outputs of "Account 1" transactions against further accounts.)

[709Crypto]

I just ran into this same issue but adding new accounts doesn’t seem to populate any of my coins.

Is there another method of retrieval using this seed (note using IOS mycelium, had 6 accounts with various labels, about 1btc spread amongst them)

[Giszmo]

if your wallet was created by mycelium, creating accounts should be all you need. If not, then the software that did, might not have complied with bitcoin standards. You can try our masterscan to find your coins.

[709Crypto]

Thanks for commenting; the wallets/accounts indeed were created by mycelium, but adding the additional accounts after recovered did not produce any funds, nor did the master scan.

[Giszmo]

@709Crypto did you find your funds? Did you find transactions via which your funds disappeared? This might be an issue of the iOS wallet then.

On Android one thing people mix up a lot is that they restore their backup as "mnemonic + passphrase" and then put their pin as passphrase. This results in scanning the wrong wallet.

Please check this link if your case might be covered there.