# Zcash stuck in a wallet? Check here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Support\ **Created:** [December 16, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-stuck-in-a-wallet-check-here/49752 "2024-12-16T11:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 159
**Author:** ![zancas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zancas/32/42011_2.png) [@zancas](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zancas)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-stuck-in-a-wallet-check-here/49752/159 "2025-12-16T21:21:21Z")
Folks, if you have an original era ZECWallet, that’s been a brick on your phone for years… @pacu seems to have set up a redirect such that the phone will now point to an active lightwalletd server. Thanks @pacu et. al.!!! This means that your app should be able to get past the first screen. If you are in this situation you should: **Immediately write down your seed.** Do not try to recover your wallet, do not do anything else, do not pass go. **WRITE DOWN YOUR SEED** From there we will be able to help with subsequent recovery steps. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-stuck-in-a-wallet-check-here/49752)._