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    birr
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    July 14, 2015, 09:17:35 PM
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    You can find out whether Mycelium monitors or scans old addresses by generating a list of your addresses, choosing an old one and sending some coin to it.  See if it shows up in your balance.

    If not, refresh your wallet.
    Highlight (select) the account, go to the menu and click reload account.  It will then have to generate every address in the chain, including the one you sent some new coins to.  Maybe it will see the coins...anybody care to try it?

    I would, but I only have 50 private keys in my oldest HD wallet and so I doubt any of my receiving addresses count as 'old'.
    It doesn't have to be old old, just old meaning "former".
    If you have fifty addresses in your wallet, plenty of them were used once, emptied of coins and never used again.  That's how an HD wallet works.
    I suggested sending some coin to one of those " old" (empty) former addresses as an experiment.  You can find your used addresses by going into the menu where you sign messages, which brings up a list of all the addresses contained in your HD wallet.  Very few of those fifty addresses will have coin in them.  Most will be empty.
    Another way to generate a list of addresses is by running this bip39 utility offline.
    https://dcpos.github.io/bip39/

    Unrelated to the subject of this post, but important nevertheless:
    Right now, while confirmations are backed up and people are having trouble sending coins, it's a good idea to bump up your fee.  You can do this easily in Mycelium by tapping the miner fee button, which will change the fee from Normal to Priority.
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