Mist: Blockchain fully synced, balance still 0

[shlomogoldblatt]

About a month ago bought some ether to test. Transaction checks out on etherscan. Wallet (both Ethereum and Mist) still show 0 balance. Re-installed a few times, re-downloaded blockchain (took me 1 week), still 0. Why? What can I do to fix this?
Address 0xf794fB00f06FBD673cE3DB5EB0339c1e78dD0c3b

[evertonfraga]

Hi @shlomogoldblatt, let me help you debug that.

One possibility is that the wallet missed some logs while syncing. Just to rule this out, please restart Mist. If that doesn't work, let's do this:

1. download latest geth from here http://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/
2. run geth console on your terminal of choice
3. when the geth console is ready, run web3.eth.getBalance('0xf794fB00f06FBD673cE3DB5EB0339c1e78dD0c3b')

If it still displays zero balance, I'd ask you to open an issue at the Geth repo: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20sync%20

If it displays a positive balance and the wallet still displays zero, let me know.

Thanks for reporting.

[shlomogoldblatt]

Hi evertonfraga.

I've been restarting Mist many times, didn't help
As for geth. I downloaded, installed and ran it, now I see a small black screen (attached). But I'm unable to run anything as I do not understand how to do that. when I hover my mouse over it, it won't type in it

[statsdroneadmin]

I'm trying to do the same and upon running Geth and typing in the command for getBalance I get

"INFO [06-21|20:24:57] Block synchronisation started
WARN [06-21|20:25:11] Synchronisation failed, retrying err="block download canceled (requested)""

[shlomogoldblatt]

I also get this line about failed sync!

[statsdroneadmin]

I re-ran it and it seems to be doing something, getting a similar screen above that shows 'Imported new state entries'

[statsdroneadmin]

I don't know if it had anything on using the command geth removedb, followed that from here
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/3585

[statsdroneadmin]

maybe the command geth upgradedb is better to use.

[shlomogoldblatt]

no help whatsoever. what a fucking disappointment that ethereum is

[evertonfraga]

Hi, we have just launched Mist v0.9.1, with Light Client integration (beta).

What does that mean?

• Sync times reduced by an order of magnitude while staying safe.
• Much smaller storage required.

How to activate?

I'm closing this issue. Should you have any trouble, please refer to these channels:

• Canonical issue regarding sync: https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/3097
• Gitter channel, where the community is, and can certainly help as well: https://gitter.im/ethereum/mist

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