Help importing lightning channel from desktop to andriod

[Deivids1990]

Hello everyone,

I find myself in the following situation:

I opened a lightning channel with my electrum desktop wallet, everything well fine. I have have as well an electrum android wallet in my phone opened with the exact same seed. Now, the lightning channels are not associated with the seed, I know that, which is why I scanned the QR code and imported it to my android wallet.

Now when I go to "Channel" in the android wallet I can see my channel there that appears as "FUNDED" and has the according balance displayed. However right above I still have "you can send m0 BTC; you can receive 0 mBTC". So somehow the channel is imported to my android wallet but it is not usable?

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

[Rath_]

Now when I go to "Channel" in the android wallet I can see my channel there that appears as "FUNDED" and has the according balance displayed. However right above I still have "you can send m0 BTC; you can receive 0 mBTC". So somehow the channel is imported to my android wallet but it is not usable?

You very likely imported some kind of backup which allows you only to close that channel. How did you exactly export your Lightning channel?

By the way, you should be extremely careful when using the same Lightning Network channel on more than one device. In fact, you should never do this. At some point, any of your devices might have an outdated state of the channel which would force the other party to close the channel uncooperatively.

[Deivids1990]

Hey Rath!

thanks for your reply.

Indeed, that's what I did. I imported the backup from my electrum desktop in my electrum android. As I mentioned I was hoping this would allow me to use the channel from my phone as well. But I understand that is a bad idea

Thanks a lot!

David