Posting this for a friend 2000+ miles away who is hopeless with computers.
He recently got into BTC. Downloaded latest MultiBit, wrote down his seed phrase, set his password.
Now it's telling him the password is no good. He swears it's the right one.
Tried using Mycelium on his phone with the seed phrase. It said it was correct, but zero BTC.
I can look up his address and see he has BTC in there, so it is unlikely he was hacked.
Any idea how to recover this?
I had the same problem with the incorrect password bug. One important thing to keep in mind about Multibit HD is that their seed is compressed and not compatible with other wallets. It's normal that you see no balance when you have tried importing the Multibit HD seed into Mycelium.
There is a workaround described in that thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1733063.0You have to essentially extract the private keys of the addresses holding coins and import them into another wallet like Electrum for example.
If you need any help you can PM me and I will walk you through the process of recovering your friend's unaccessible coins. Don't worry they are not lost