Having issues recovering Mycelium seed in a different wallet [SOLVED]

[zabzob]

I'm trying to recover the BTC from a Mycelium wallet from a lost phone. My replacement phone is an iPhone and I no longer have an Android phone, so I'm trying to recover the funds with a different wallet. (I'd rather not ask somebody to let me use their Android phone for something like this, so please don't suggest it as a solution.)

I've tried 4 different wallets, and none of them is recovering the full balance form the seed, and they're giving different balances which is weird. Both Sparrow and Electrum give exact same results, same number of transactions and zero balance. BlueWallet shows a larger number of transactions with a balance, but it's less than the amount I know was in the wallet. Apple Mycelium is useless, showing no transaction history at all. I was using different HD accounts in Mycelium, maybe other wallets have difficulties with that feature?

There's no indication that someone found the phone and emptied the wallet, as the last transaction shown on any of the wallets I've tried is from months ago, even though I know there are much more recent transactions. Is there a way to recover the full balance without an Android phone? The amount is significant, but not enough to justify buying an android phone just to use Mycelium for this purpose. Any ideas? It seems like no other wallet is really capable of completely importing a Mycelium seed. Is there an Android emulator that I can use on a PC to run Mycelium?

[Zaguru12]

One thing about blockchain is it is always right now that the two wallet I will suggest both shows the same thing I would say most probably it might be sync issue which to me is unlikely, so the question is the wallet address in which the bitcoin is on on that wallet or if you have the address you can simply import the address only to check if the funds are there, if they are not there then it must have been sent out of their because coins do not just disappear. If it is there then most probably you are actually importing a wrong wallet and need to import one that has your address this might be maybe derivation path issue or seed phrase with custom words (pass phrase)

[OmegaStarScream]

Bluestacks is an emulator you can try and use, yes.

As for the issue you're facing, it's probably because you were using different HD accounts as you have mentioned. Using Electrum, try and change the derivation path as explained in this article:

Note that last digit in the derivation path denotes the HD account number. If the recovered wallet does not reflect all your funds repeat the restoration process with a new wallet file and increment the last number. Do this again and again until you have recovered all HD accounts. For example: m/44’/0’/1′ to restore the second HD account, m/44’/0’/2′ for the third HD acccount etc. Note also that the single quotes in the derivation path are not optional.

[zabzob]

Bluestacks is an emulator you can try and use, yes.

As for the issue you're facing, it's probably because you were using different HD accounts as you have mentioned. Using Electrum, try and change the derivation path as explained in this article:

Note that last digit in the derivation path denotes the HD account number. If the recovered wallet does not reflect all your funds repeat the restoration process with a new wallet file and increment the last number. Do this again and again until you have recovered all HD accounts. For example: m/44’/0’/1′ to restore the second HD account, m/44’/0’/2′ for the third HD acccount etc. Note also that the single quotes in the derivation path are not optional.

That worked like a charm, piece of cake! Just changed the last zero to a 1 and all my BTC appeared. Thanks so much!

[Mitchell]

The issue was with the HD account index; adjusting the derivation path in Electrum solved it.

Consider this a warning, stop necro-posting. The issue was already resolved.