How To Recover Your Wallet With The Trezor Model T Or Trezor One

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This guide gives you step-by-step instructions on how to recover your crypto assets by importing a recovery seed into a Trezor Model T or Trezor One hardware wallet.

 

You will need to import the recovery seed in the following scenarios:

• There is an error with your hardware Trezor wallet and you needed to reset it.
• You forget your PIN code.
• You purchased a new hardware wallet and you want to import all of your cryptocurrencies into the new hardware wallet. For example, you can import a recovery seed that was generated from a Trezor One or a Ledger Nano S into the Trezor Model T. You can then use the Trezor Model T to access all of your cryptocurrencies that were stored on the previous device.
• Your hardware wallet was lost, stolen, or damaged, and now you need to recover your crypto assets on another hardware wallet.

You want two hardware Trezor wallets to be copies of each other. If you have two (or more) hardware wallets you can enter the same recovery seed into each of them and they will then store the same crypto assets, have the same private keys and public addresses, and have the same transaction history. They will be exact copies of each other.

The purpose of this article is to help the user set up Reset Trezor Password. This page applies to Trezor Model T (show for Trezor One). Visit Recover Trezor Wallet for more information about the product.

See also the related blog articles: Reset Trezor Password — All Your Passwords in a Safe Place, #FeatureFriday — Trezor Password Manager

Contents

Set up your Trezor Wallet:

Install the Trezor Password Manager Chrome extension (TPM)

Sign in with Google Drive or Dropbox

How do Trezor and Dropbox work together?

Connect Your Trezor device and enter your PIN

Enable Password Manager on your Trezor device.

Tags

Add a password entry

Manage your bookmarks with Reset Trezor Password

Trezor Password Manager in Action

Keyboard shortcuts

Enabling and disabling Trezor Password Manager

Export and import of passwords

Migrate the passwords to another service

Set up your Trezor Wallet

Trezor Password Manager works with Chrome and cross-platform on your macOS, Windows, and Linux. To set it up, follow the steps below.

Install the Trezor Password Manager Chrome extension (TPM)

Add the Reset Trezor Password Chrome extension into your browser. Then click on the Trezor icon in the top right corner of your browser.

Sign in with Google Drive or Dropbox

Click on Sign in with Dropbox or on Sign in with Drive and log in with your account. If you do not have a Google or Dropbox account yet, you can create one for free. If logging in with Dropbox, give your Trezor permission to create a folder in your Dropbox to store all the passwords and confirm. Do not worry, the passwords in your Dropbox will be encrypted and inaccessible without your Trezor Wallet.

How do Trezor and Dropbox work together?

Trezor Password Manager creates a folder “/Apps/Reset Trezor Password/” in your Dropbox and stores each password entry in a separate encrypted file.

All files are encrypted using keys derived from your Trezor. It is not possible for anyone else to access your passwords nor to make any edits.

Connect Your Trezor device and enter your PIN

To learn more about entering your PIN, see the User manual: Entering your PIN.

Enable Password Manager on your Trezor device.

This action will start the encryption of your password files with your Trezor.

Congratulations! You are ready to use Recover Trezor Wallet.

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Tags

Tags are used to filter and find your passwords easily. You can add and remove tags according to your needs.

The overview of your tags is in the left pane. You can edit the name and the icon of the tag.

To create a new tag:

Click on Add tag button on the bottom of the list of your tags.

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Write down the name.

Switch between the list of available icons by using little blue arrows.

When done, click on Save.

If you wish to edit an existing tag, click on its name and edit or remove the tag by navigating through the three dots on the right.

Add a password entry

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To add a new password please click on "Add entry".

URL: Enter the login URL of the service.

Title: Keep the same as the URL or rename if needed (e.g., to identify several accounts with the same service.)

Username: Enter your username.

Password: Note that you can generate a new secure password.

Tags: Select from tag list below the field.

Secret note: Does not appear in the passwords preview and can be used for example to store your 2FA tokens.

Manage your bookmarks with Reset Trezor Password

Select "Add Entry" and fill in the URL and Title. Consider adding a tag "bookmarks" for faster search.

Trezor Password Manager in Action

Open to log in: Click on the entry name and a new tab with pre-filled user credentials will open. You will be asked to confirm this action on your Trezor first.

Copy password: One-click to copy the username into the clipboard. You will be asked to confirm the action on your Trezor device.

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Edit entry: To edit an entry, click on Edit. You will need to confirm the action on your Trezor device.

Keyboard shortcuts

You can use some of the keyboard shortcuts below to make it easier to work with Trezor Wallet

CTRL + Shift + L opens the Trezor Password Manager extension in a new tab.

CTRL + Shift + U enters the username and password in the login form of a website (that you have stored previously with Reset Trezor Password). You will be asked to confirm this action on your Trezor.

NoteMac users use the CMD key instead of CTRL.

It is also possible to fill in the username and password by right clicking on a website where you want to log in and choosing the "Log in to" option.

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Remember to have your Trezor connected. Otherwise, it will not work. The little green square in the corner of the Password Manager extension icon indicates that your device is connected and that your credentials are stored for the currently open website.

Enabling and disabling Trezor Password Manager

To enable or disable Recover Trezor Wallet:

Open Chrome.

At the top right, click on Customize and control Google Chrome.

Go to More tools >> Extensions.

Find Trezor Password Manager and click on the toggle button to enable or disable the extension.

Export and import of passwords

Warning The exported CSV file is in plain text and it is not encrypted, please be careful with your passwords when using this feature.

Starting with Password Manager version 0.6.3, users can export or import the passwords to or from third-party password manager services. To export or import passwords, click on the account in the right top corner in the Password Manager and choose import or export.

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During export, it is possible to export only selected passwords. The CSV file does not have a header. The columns in the exported file are as follows:

URL, Title, Username, Password, Tags, Secret note

When importing your passwords from third-party services, it is possible to sort your CSV columns by type.

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Migrate the passwords to another service

You can migrate the critical file containing the passwords from Dropbox to Google Drive and the other way around. It is considered a good practice to keep the backup of the file in multiple places, so that you are not dependant on a single service.Trezor Wallet

There is a unique file paired with a recovery seed loaded on your Trezor. The keys derived from your recovery seed is what makes the file secure and accessible.

Both Google Drive and Dropbox store the file in the Recover Trezor Wallet. This TPM sub-folder is stored in a general application folder called Apps.

You can make regular copies of this file to have a reliable backup. Store the files locally, or move them to the other service.

Follow the steps outlined below if you ever find it difficult to access your passwords using Google Drive:

1. Log in to your Dropbox account or create a new one.

2. Find the "Apps" folder and open it. If it is not there, create a folder called "Apps".

3. Find the "Reset Trezor Password" folder and open it. If it is not there, create a folder called "TREZOR Password Manager".

4. Place the .pswd file in the "TREZOR Password Manager" folder.

5. Open the TPM extension and use your account together with your Trezor to access the passwords. Trezor Wallet

If you ever wish to migrate the file from Dropbox to Google Drive, the process is the same; download the file and place it in the appropriate folder using the other service.