Lost phone with bitcoin wallet

[ddboulia]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

[mapsfly]

not that i know of

something is for sure going to happen to everyones phone at some point

so you should think of it as your coins are as good as nothing without the backup phrase in the future

[Jawhead999]

If you have private keys or seed phrases then you can able to recover your coin by import it to some wallet (e.g. electrum)

But since you don't have any back up and loss your phone, there's no way to recover your coin... your coin was gone forever.

My advice is you need to move on and forget your coin, also don't believe any service that offer able to recover your coin.

[BitMaxz]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

This is the reason why I always keep my backup at my home because if my device is lost or stolen by someone I have a backup that I can use to restore for emergency purposes.

If you don't have any backup like seed and private key(already mentioned above) or a wallet file you have nothing to do unless if you have these backups.

Why not try to locate your phone if it was FRP enabled and your email is connected to this phone maybe you can use the "Locate my phone Google". Make sure that you are already login on Google before you use that keyword this is what it looks like below



Let's hope that all files still intact on the device and hope that your phone is still alive.

[SamReomo]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

Unfortunately, you won't be able to recover your wallet if you haven't back up it before loosing your phone. Keeping a positive attitude at regaining your lost Bitcoin is not a bad thought, but reality might be harsh for you dear friend.

Many people have lost their Bitcoin wallets, and they have lost it for ever. Same is the case with you, and if I am not wrong you have bought the Bitcoin using your phone or you only had received the Bitcoin on your phone's wallet. That's why it is impossible to recover that wallet.

[pakhitheboss]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

Since, you did mention you have not created any back up of your wallet therefore it will be hard for you to get access to it. The other option available for you to use the Private key which I doubt you might remember because this was an incident  that took place two years back. If you had written your Private key somewhere then still you have a chance. Otherwise forget it mate.

[0t3p0t]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

No need to recover the phone if you have the private keys and seed phrases with you but seems that was so long ago meaning you don't have the keys. If you enabled the find my phone feature on your device I think it is possible but if not then you will lose it forever.

[witcher_sense]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

There is no hope to get your bitcoin back unless you made a backup of your wallet or of a seed phrase that was given to you upon creation of the wallet. Actually, there is something iffy in your story. You said hadn't you lost your phone, you would have 60000$ now, which means you had around 1.5 BTC. Two years ago, bitcoin was worth around 4000$. So, at the time, you lost 6000$ and didn't care whatsoever. Once Elon has announced he had invested 1.5B in bitcoin, you suddenly realized bitcoin was real money or what?

[ddboulia]

I did care and tried everything I could 2 years ago. I had basically given up on the coin for the past couple years and just recently thought it might be worth it to ask the public for any advice.

[ddboulia]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.

Any advice is extremely welcome.
 

There is no hope to get your bitcoin back unless you made a backup of your wallet or of a seed phrase that was given to you upon creation of the wallet. Actually, there is something iffy in your story. You said hadn't you lost your phone, you would have 60000$ now, which means you had around 1.5 BTC. Two years ago, bitcoin was worth around 4000$. So, at the time, you lost 6000$ and didn't care whatsoever. Once Elon has announced he had invested 1.5B in bitcoin, you suddenly realized bitcoin was real money or what?

I swear I wrote those down somewhere... I had a few wallets back in the day, I remember thinking I was very foolish with this one and ended up paying for it.

[shane_gr]

If your phone has the ability to be tracked via satellite, you have a chance to find it or you can give your phone box to the police so that they can find it by tracking it.
If all this does not work, you should find another copy of the same wallet and restore it with the backup key or request a recovery by giving your email to the company.
I hope these ways work.

[amishmanish]

I swear I wrote those down somewhere... I had a few wallets back in the day, I remember thinking I was very foolish with this one and ended up paying for it.

Lost bitcoin with no private key backed up are just that. Lost forever. You reduced the total supply is what you did. Judging from your replies, i guess you are aware of that.

If you are looking for advice to somehow track a phone lost 2 years ago, then you are in fiction territory and doesn't seem like its possible. If you want the community to play detective, you should probably explain a bit more about the circumstances. Here is something to make you feel better by comparing a fellow bitcoiners' suffering. A guy who lost 750K BTC and knows exactly where they are.

[cissrawk]

Sadly, nothing you can do to get it back if you don't have your phone.
You're saying that you don't backup it back then, but maybe you just forget? Maybe try to check your email, cloud drive, etc that have possibility you save the backup before.
If not, then the only thing that i can suggest now is try to move on.

[Lorence.xD]

If you have private keys or seed phrases then you can able to recover your coin by import it to some wallet (e.g. electrum)

But since you don't have any back up and loss your phone, there's no way to recover your coin... your coin was gone forever.

My advice is you need to move on and forget your coin, also don't believe any service that offer able to recover your coin.

This is the most depressing thing if it ever happens to me, and how come OP let 2 years go by to find the phone but now is frantic to recover it, this is like a karmic cycle of not believing in the potential of bitcoin. I would suggest moving on too but I would love to add that if OP does this kind of thing again then OP should probably quit.

[acener]

Since OP didn't have back up on the wallet and it was on the phone I think it would only depend on what kind of mobile wallet did OP downloaded and use at the time.
If it is a centralized wallet that would consist of personal information to log in then there is a chance but if it is going to be a mobile wallet that only log in through pass phrase then I think it would really be hard to retrieve or for me it seems impossible to retrieve it.

[ddboulia]

The wallet was bitcoin core wallet. I am in the process of syncing transactions from the last 2 years. I don't think it will work since I don't remember ever having the wallet connected to my laptop. I may have downloaded this onto my computer after I lost the phone 2 years ago with hopes of getting it back. That is interesting, I will try to contact the company with email info. I do think you guys are right that I should move on, it is probably a waste of energy. That post of the guy that lost 127million, I guess that must be worth nearly 400 million now. WOW

[GeorgeJohn]

I was very unfortunate to have lost a phone that had bitcoin sitting in the wallet. I was foolish and did not back the wallet up. I am wondering if there is any way to get my bitcoin at this point? I should also mention that I lost this phone 2 years ago and the lost bitcoin is now worth about 60k so whatever I could do to get it back.
 

Losing phone that contains bitcoin wallet never be problem because retrieving your wallet is very simple if the private keys of the wallet is saved somewhere without been in the missing phone, so a process whereby the private keys stored in the phone I don't the possibility to retrieve the wallet is there, that is the reason it's encouraging to documents your private keys on our documents books in case if our laptop or phone have issues we can easily penetrate into our wallet's by using private keys.

[davis196]

You have lost your phone 2 years ago?
Aren't you a little bit late to ask this question?
Anything can happen in 2 years.Maybe your phone was broken.Maybe some guy had found your phone and moved the bitcoins?There is nothing you can do about it,since you don't have your private keys.
I would never use Bitcoin wallets on a smartphone device.Keeping a few thousands dollars worth of BTC in a wallet in your phone seems like a recipe for disaster to me.

[hayden.blank]

You cant have it again, you should always back it up

[gurunanakji777]

One should always expect the unexpected and one should back up the wallet or always store the keys and seed phrase other place as well if we lost from one place so that we can access from other place. You can report in police station or ask them to track the IMEI no of your mobile but you are saying its been 2 years you lost it. Might be the person who got your mobile format the phone so I believe chances of getting your BTC is very meager.