If the twelve word seed that was used to backup my trezor is also where the Bitcoin address was generated from that I sent btc to, that addresses private keys should be tied to the backup. That's the whole point I had thought. Now, it seems that the Trezor with the original seed imported into it, has nothing to show. It holds no keys. I think I lost this money and I really thought I had followed all steps correctly at the time I transferred it into cold storage.

Ok so now I've successfully reinstalled Trezor suite on a new laptop, connected my trezor and it continues to import nothing. On top of that it says account discovery error on the suite dashboard  If I decide to import the twelve word phrase into Mycelium, as I'm not sure what else to do, I can generate a new twelve word from the Trezor again, correct?

Separately, should I be turning off my vpn when using Trezor?

Also, when attempting to import from trezor to mycelium it asked if there was a passphrase and gave the option to skip if there was none. I dont have one written down so I'm thinking there isn't an associated passphrase with the twelve word seed. Should there be?

FindingNemo, yes I tried to share where I'm at and what's going on in my head but that was alot to follow. I'll try to be more concise. I thought of importing the recovery seed into Mycelium, or Electrum or any wallet, but then that makes the cold storage useless I thought. However that may be my only option at this point.

PX-Z, I have not yet imported the Trezor word seed into Mycelium, but just tried what you recommended, but to no avai.l  Added an account, chose Import a Trezor HD bitcoin account, let it scan and it returned that there were no active accounts. One other thing I forgot to mention. In trying to figure this all out I realized I had imported the twelve word seed from Samourai into the Trezor (I think) so I did a factory reset, entered in a new pin and the original Trezor recovery seed. So now the device should in fact be importing the correct address into Mycelium when following the steps you mentioned. But it isn't.

I'm now thinking maybe just enter the Trezor twelve word seed into Mycelium to try and gain access and then repopulate a new Trezor twelve word seed, right? If I did it the first time, I should be able to generate a new one.

Also, Is the desktop suite necessary to be using, or can I accomplish what I'm looking to do through the web interface and Mycelium wallet?

Thank you all for getting back to me . And you all are 100% correct. OmegaStarScream, Restoring Samourai's wallet did in fact do nothing, as I realized it should not have afterwards. It did however give me the transaction history where I can then see the transaction to the generated address on the Blockchain and that the full amount is still sitting there. So I do believe it to have sent correctly.

Bitmaxz, that could be my problem. originally I did everything through a laptop with the suite and now I've attempted to do everything on my phone. I thought I circumvented that problem by using the web interface through Google Chrome. Previously I didn't have the ability to hook directly to a phone so everything was done on a laptop that is since retired and can't find power cord for. Which led me to plug into my new phone through double sided USB cord. Opening trezor suite lite then told me to update firmware to use app. That led me to the web interface where I was able to update the device, but then upon opening trezor suite lite it was saying looking for Bitcoin or something, but found nothing. Maybe I really need to go back to the proper desktop app to get this straightened out? Assumedly I can download on a new laptop, use recovery phrase and I'm back on track? Hopefully.

Hd48728, I do understand the basic concepts, or did, enough to get things situated initially but now I'm struggling without a user friendly interface that makes sense to me. I don't know how I generated the address lol I believe through the desktop interface, but the specific steps are what's getting me lost. I was originally looking to send leftovers to a separate address as I had heard not to reuse addresses, but then last night as I was reading trying to refresh my memory someone mentioned having to put the whole balance from cold wallet to hot to spend but then it's vulnerable being in a hot wallet, so to move the remainder to a newly generated trezor sddress.  What I read could have been nonsense.

I have the generated address public key, as that is what's listed on the Blockchain (correct me if I'm misunderstanding) and I found it from using the empty Samourai wallet and entering in the twelve words and passphrase into Mycelium to then go through the transaction history. I also have the twelve word seed from the Trezor itself that I wrote down. I have the Mycelium wallet (though will use another if necessary) that gives the ability to send and receive from the address the wallet created. That address has no btc in it to start obviously. What I'm not understanding is how do I get the new wallet that's empty to suddenly hold the Bitcoin at the generated address
so that I can use it and send it places? I know this is super basic stuff and maybe it's because I haven't tried the desktop suite again yet?

How am I using the twelve word seed to access the generated address and send Bitcoin again? At the time everything was fairly straightforward, Swan, Samourai, using Authy to help keep things safer.. Now I'm coming back to things with a new phone, new wallet app, my twelve word seed, and thankfully the address where the Bitcoin is sitting (as I wasn't sure what the address even was for a bit and got nervous).

Even with all I've said, and all you've responded with, I'll still likely be back with a few more questions but I'm going to try the desktop suite and see if that makes things make sense. Thank you so much for responding y'all

Hey everyone, stupid mistake from a newbie and I just can't figure out what to do. I bought BTC through Swan, then bought a Trezor, downloaded Samourai (this was a while back), moved everything from Swan's custody to the Samourai wallet and then finally to the Trezor generated address for cold storage. Pretty sure I did everything right at the time. The idea was for longer term hodling but now I'm looking to dip into and spend some of it. Samourai has been seized so I downloaded Mycelium but I'm not sure what to do now. At first I entered in the passphrase to restore a backup wallet which was from the Samourai wallet I used, and it shows in the transaction history where I sent BTC to the cold storage address, but now I'm looking at that public key with my money in it wondering how to move it to the Mycelium wallet address. I believe I read that to spend it I would have to send it to a hot wallet and then send what I want to spend to that person and then the remaining balance back to myself at a newly generated Trezor address. I have the twelve word passphrase to the Trezor that I thought is supposed to hold the keys to the address I generated with the device, but it's been so long since I used it I can't figure out how to make it all work again. The Trezor Suite lite when hooked up to the trezor model T shows me nothing in the dashboard although I thought it would show the balance associated with the address the device generated. I'm so confused. Any help please!