Recovering from an Error in 24 (or 12) Word Seed Phrase. For Ledger, Trezor, Keepkey, Coinomi, etc.

Keep all your crypto safe & upgrade to a Ledger Nano X Hardware Wallet https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-...

Alternatively, if you prefer a 100% Open Source wallet, a Trezor One is also a great value wallet https://shop.trezor.io/product/trezor...

So you have upgraded the firmware on your hardware wallet, gone to re-enter the 24 word seed and got one of the following errors:

Trezor: Recovery failed. Error details: Mnemonic is not valid
Ledger: Invalid recovery phrase
or simply: Invalid mnemonic... (or some similar error when trying to restore a BIP39/44 wallet)

Oh Noes...

Every time crypto has a bit of a price pump, I am saddened to see a bunch of people hit forums/reddit/etc who have come back into the space and realised their recovery phrase doesn't work... Half of them end up simply pinching their 24 word seed into scammy online tools or worse, paying for tools/services that are mostly scams and will never work anyway... These exploitative situations should be avoided at all costs...

This video demonstrates how to use some secure offline and open source tools (seed Savior and BTCrecover) to recover from both single and multiple errors in your 24 word recovery phrase. (Demonstrating up to a 3 wrong words in a 24 word seed)

Full notes as seen in the video are at the very bottom of hte description.

Important Notes to Start...
⦁You will need your 24 (or 12) word seed (Even if it has errors)
⦁You will need to know at least one public address that you used for the wallet...

This will not help you to recover from having lost your 24 word phrase completely... I'm sorry but in this case, there is no means of recovery and anyone who tells you otherwise is out to scam you somehow. (If you still have a hardware wallet for which you no longer have the seed, you should move all coins to a new wallet/seed ASAP)

Tools used in this video: https://github.com/3rdIteration/mnemo...
https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcre...
https://tails.boum.org/

You can even keep the same 24 word phrase on your new wallet.

If this was helpful, feel free to send me a tip:
BTC: 37hiiSB1Poj6Shs8WawPS2HjT2jzHkFSQi
BCH: qr9qenlgjh0xlyz802h70ul69rpdj8z6qyuh7m79ah
LTC: MRWnUcsyofisVp5GvX7nxMog5caneycKZ6
ETH: 0xCe41d43349E1c8C53E02631650E236d94A899a95
VTC: vtc1qxauv20r2ux2vttrjmm9eylshl508q04uju936n
ZEN: znUihTHfwm5UJS1ywo911mdNEzd9WY9vBP7

--

Invalid mnemonic... Oh Noes...
Trezor: Recovery failed. Error details: Mnemonic is not valid
Ledger: Invalid recovery phrase
Important Notes to Start...
⦁ You will need your 24 word seed (Even if it has errors)
⦁ You will need to know at least one public address...
Ideally one for Bitcoin or Ethereum, though you could use this offline with Ian Colemans BIP39 tool to check seed phrases.
For This example, let's say we purchased some Eth on CoinBase. We log in and see that we sent it to...
Eth:
0xBE69D281526dd82D92DE1a8075654304eBC25BC7
(An Ethereum address that was used through the old ledger Chrome app)

Recovering Correct 24 Word Seed if Incorrectly Entered...
1. Create an secure "Air Gapped" PC environment (eg: Tails Linux, Ubuntu Live) on a USB, CD, etc.
2. Download Seed Savior to a USB stick
3. Identify the public address that contains the coins you want, copy to a USB stick. (or use pen and paper) ()
4. Load up your "Air Gapped" environment
5. Enter Your 24 Word Seed into Seed Savior
6. Look for suggestion about any words that aren't in the "word list" (only 2048 of them)
7. If you get no errors... Try replacing each word in the seed phrase, one at a time with "?" (Can work well for a single error)
8. If you find your 24 word seed, correct it on your paper backup. (And use it)
9. If that doesn't work... Try BTCRecover...
(Why didn't we start here, it hasn't been maintained since 2017, doesn't suppport newer format BTC addresses or other coins, most single errors may be picked up by seed savior)
10. BTCRecover - Get-PIP
11. BTCRecover - Install Resources it needs
12. BTCRecover - Run + Demo

24 Word Phrases...
Correct:
element entire sniff tired miracle solve shadow scatter hello never tank side sight isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby

Incorrect 1: (1 error, an easy typo on one word)
element entire sniff tried miracle solve shadow scatter hello never tank side sight isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby

Incorrect 2: (2 errors, two typos)
element entire sniff tried miracle solve shadow scatter hello ever tank side sight isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby

Incorrect 3: (3 errors, including a completely wrong word that is in the BIP39 word list)
element entire sniff tried miracle solve shadow scatter hello ever tank side side isolate sister uniform advice pen praise soap lizard festival connect baby

#bitcoin #btc #ethereum #eth #cryptocurrency #crypto #ledger #trezor #security