I’ve been using Brave for a couple months now on macOS and Android. I synced Brave across both of my macOS devices and my Android. I was grateful to start seeing privacy preserving ads on Android starting this summer and started earning BAT.
Today my macOS client said it failed to update and I needed to reinstall Brave. I did so, only to find that Rewards were reset and in attempting to view my current BAT and settings, it seems the browser initiated a new Rewards wallet.
Is my previous wallet lost? I still have the user ID, Persona ID, and Payment ID from the initial setup.
A possibly related note: I hadn’t setup an Uphold account before today, when I first noticed mention of it. I’ve set one up now, but I’m wondering if there was an automated attempt to push BAT to an Uphold Wallet when I hadn’t set one up.
My Android Brave Rewards shows 0.0 BAT, 0.00 USD, as did my recently updated macOS version.
I went to my secondary macOS device, opened chrome://rewards/ and copied out the recovery key which I pasted onto my primary device. Initially, it appeared as though an empty wallet was initialized, but my balance showed up on my primary macOS after a delay.
My Android Brave still shows 0.0 BAT in my balance, and 2.3 BAT pending. I do not see an option in Android to restore or backup with key…am I missing it? I only can enable/disable ads and change the number of ads per hour; enable/disable Auto-contribute; view Tips.
Meaning I may have simply not understood what is synced across devices. I should spend more time reading here to understand the current state and expected development for the mobile platforms.