Unexpected magic characters

[jddebug]

bump, same issue....


Someone told me that electrum uses an old python library for trezor in its binaries. I tried PMing thomasV to confirm but no reply.


ive temporarily moved my hot btc to nano S. Slightly more annoying to use... but it works atleast.

Did you ever hear back? I am having the same problem.

Electrum 3.0.2

Firmware 1.5.2

negative.

im just using my nano s fine. when trezor works again ill re-evaluate.


you can roll back your electrum to version 2.7x or something. It works fine

kryptopojken and others here.

Talking with kyuupichan on irc at #electrum and he suggested enabling the addresses tab in the view menu and then right click an address and choose show on trezor. This worked and the red dot on the trezor icon turned green. Everything seemed to work after that. Maybe give it a try yourself but please, if you send some btc to it, do a very small test amount first to make sure all is well for you too.

[Roy Badami]

The following workaround seems to be giving me some success:

If you get the "unexpected magic characters" error, make sure you have a non-hardware wallet window open in Electrum (create a dummy wallet for this purpose if you don't already have one) and then close your hardware wallet window (or all your hardware wallet windows if you have multiple open - although IME having multiple HW wallets open in Electrum tends not to work well).  Then re-open the offending hardware wallet using Electrum's  "Open" menu.  This seems to work for me quite well (on OS X).  YMMV...

(EDITED because the above seems to work better than my first suggestion.  For the record, my previous suggestion was: "It seems to be that the "unexpected magic characters" message is, at least sometimes, not fatal.  Try doing something that requires authentication with the Trezor (such as signing a message) and Electrum might recover....")

[celes8]

bump, same issue....


Someone told me that electrum uses an old python library for trezor in its binaries. I tried PMing thomasV to confirm but no reply.


ive temporarily moved my hot btc to nano S. Slightly more annoying to use... but it works atleast.

Did you ever hear back? I am having the same problem.

Electrum 3.0.2

Firmware 1.5.2

negative.

im just using my nano s fine. when trezor works again ill re-evaluate.


you can roll back your electrum to version 2.7x or something. It works fine

kryptopojken and others here.

Talking with kyuupichan on irc at #electrum and he suggested enabling the addresses tab in the view menu and then right click an address and choose show on trezor. This worked and the red dot on the trezor icon turned green. Everything seemed to work after that. Maybe give it a try yourself but please, if you send some btc to it, do a very small test amount first to make sure all is well for you too.

i can confirm this works for me on 3.02 & 1.52 firmware

[spiccioli]

Hi all,

it seems this problem has been identified

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3131

Let's hope it gets fixed.

I'm on a mac os as well (10.5.x)

Regards.

spiccioli