Restoring wallet doesn't restore coins

[hosseinimr93]

Electrum used to display a warning when you are about to exceed the gap limit but on the newest versions (at least on mobile) it will not generate a new address beyond the gap limit and will display this error message:

Right, that's how the android version works.
The desktop version allow you to generate more and more addresses even beyond the gap limit. Below is the warning displayed by desktop version of electrum when trying to generating an address beyond the gap limit.



Electrum also highlight addresses that are beyond the gap limit in red to warn users.

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[Pmalek]

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I think that notification could be improved from Electrum's side. "The address won't be recovered automatically", ok. But then they say "you may need to add it manually." To me, that sounds like the only solution is to import the private keys of the missing address. That's something a user wouldn't have because the default gap limit doesn't allow him to see such addresses. Perhaps "you may need to add it manually or increase the gap limit" would be a more complete version. 

[Sr.Urbanist]

If it's an old wallet and the address starts with "1", you'll need to ensure you do not enable Segwit. It seems Electrum won't recognize original Bitcoin addresses if you create a Segwit or native Segwit wallet. The original addresses will not show up among the UTXO set although the key still controls them. Try creating a non-Segwit wallet. 

[nc50lc]

If it's an old wallet and the address starts with "1", you'll need to ensure you do not enable Segwit.

Those script type (address type) options that you're talking about is only applicable to restored BIP39 seed phrase to Electrum,
It wont show in new or old Electrum seed because it already has the necessary data to tell Electrum which address type to restore.

Plus if you read the OP, his seed phrase seem to restore the same empty wallet that he already has.
OP mentioned that the empty wallet has the same seed phrase (so he used the "seed" menu to verify it).
And as mentioned in your own thread, an Electrum wallet with BIP39 seed phrase has a grayed-out "Wallet->seed" menu.