<p>So here's the thing. I have an old <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitcoin Wallet</a> backup from 2015 that I'm trying to restore. However when I try to import it back into the android application, even though I'm 99.9%** sure I got the correct passphrase, it is unable to import the wallet into the application. I tried following <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet/blob/master/wallet/README.recover.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial</a> to recover the private key, and after executing <code>openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -md md5 -a -in bitcoin-wallet-backup-2015-12-22 &gt; bitcoin-wallet-decrypted-backup</code> with no error**, I get a decrypted file full of garbage. The next command in the tutorial is supposed to determine if the file is encoded in the protobuf or legacy base58 format, but it is neither of those, being instead binary gibberish.</p>
<p>I checked the encrypted backup and the padding is intact, which makes me think that the file is not corrupted? A lot of other people on the Internet seem to have the same issue, maybe someone here will be able to help me out.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>RK</p>
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<p>** I'm 99.9% sure I got the correct passphrase because in both Bitcoin Wallet and openssl cli I don't get an &quot;wrong password/bad decrypt&quot; error when I use it, but when I input any other passphrase I get a &quot;wrong password/bad decrypt&quot; error. Sure, I could have the wrong passphrase but still get a false positive decrypt, but it seems pretty unlikely that I'm remembering a passphrase that is wrong and coincidentally outputs a false positive decrypt.</p>

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2021-03-27T04:53:35.983Z
which version of the Android app did you try? They have changed how the wallet encryption work.so older backups will not import correctly with latest android version
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Did you resolve this? I have the exact same issue. Any help would be appreciated.
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Unable to recover an old Android Bitcoin Wallet backup
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# Unable to recover an old Android Bitcoin Wallet backup

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-03-25)

So here's the thing. I have an old [Bitcoin Wallet](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&hl=en_US&gl=US) backup from 2015 that I'm trying to restore. However when I try to import it back into the android application, even though I'm 99.9%\*\* sure I got the correct passphrase, it is unable to import the wallet into the application. I tried following [this tutorial](https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet/blob/master/wallet/README.recover.md) to recover the private key, and after executing `openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -md md5 -a -in bitcoin-wallet-backup-2015-12-22 > bitcoin-wallet-decrypted-backup` with no error\*\*, I get a decrypted file full of garbage. The next command in the tutorial is supposed to determine if the file is encoded in the protobuf or legacy base58 format, but it is neither of those, being instead binary gibberish.

I checked the encrypted backup and the padding is intact, which makes me think that the file is not corrupted? A lot of other people on the Internet seem to have the same issue, maybe someone here will be able to help me out.

Regards,

RK

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\*\* I'm 99.9% sure I got the correct passphrase because in both Bitcoin Wallet and openssl cli I don't get an "wrong password/bad decrypt" error when I use it, but when I input any other passphrase I get a "wrong password/bad decrypt" error. Sure, I could have the wrong passphrase but still get a false positive decrypt, but it seems pretty unlikely that I'm remembering a passphrase that is wrong and coincidentally outputs a false positive decrypt.

**Tags:** wallet-recovery, lost-bitcoins, bitcoin-wallet-app, recover-private-key

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: which version of the Android app did you try? They have changed how the wallet encryption work.so older backups will not import correctly with latest android version  
> **username_2**: Did you resolve this? I have the exact same issue. Any help would be appreciated.  

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