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My phone is rooted and I'm not going to use the Bitcoin Wallet app anymore since I'll be switching to another one. My problem is, I can't seem to find where the downloaded blockchains are stored. If I'm not mistaken it's supposedly gigabytes big but I can't find it anywhere on my phone. I'm pretty sure the first time I opened up the app, it appeared to be downloading them.

Can someone tell me what directories I should delete to ensure that the app is fully removed from my phone. (I just don't want rogue data lying around and taking up unnecessary space)

Murch
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All you need to do is uninstall the app. Android will take of everything and remove all data owned by the app. You should keep a backup of your wallet though, just in case someone reuses one of your addresses to send you money.

Andreas
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The size of the blockchain download by BW has significantly reduced recently, and is only headers at best so you're only looking for a 20-40Mb file not gigabytes.

You should be able to locate the private keys here:

/data/data/de.schildbach.wallet/files

If you need assistance with accessing your rooted phone (you probably don't) I wrote an article detailing Bitcoin recovery operations on Android that may provide useful supporting information.

Gary
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