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Using Orbot fails, please bring back inbuild Tor! #681

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Funman2 opened this issue Mar 5, 2025 · 3 comments
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Using Orbot fails, please bring back inbuild Tor! #681

Funman2 opened this issue Mar 5, 2025 · 3 comments

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@Funman2
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Funman2 commented Mar 5, 2025 •
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As many users on X stated also yesterday after the new release, the use of an external tor vpn for custom tor electrum server is a huge set back for us!

I am running an umbrel node as well as a start9 server.

With orbot the connection to my tor address of electrs or fulcrum as well as the connecting to acinq service fails completely.

I was able to get it work with InviZible Pro VPN app for Android, the only alternative on app store. But this is highly unpractical for me since i also run a tailscale VPN or a wireguard VPN to connect other services to my umbrel and start 9 servers...so I can't run the Tor VPN in addition, I can only run it when tailscale or other VPN are disconnected.

So the new version of phoenix is only useful without personal electrs server for me, what means that i would have to trust other unknown servers...

The inbuild Tor client of Phoenix wallet was running just fine for me until now in the background so please bring it back!

Also it would be even better to have a possible connection to my fulcrum/electrs server on umbrel without tls port, this was implemented recently by green wallet and works great with umbrel but is impossible to make it work on phoenix unfortunately.

Please consider this as you can see many users have the same problem here that world be great and we would be happy again.

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@barfinger
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barfinger commented Mar 5, 2025 •
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Phoenix should be enabling the local SOCKS proxy to add Tor support with Orbot, not require switching VPN profiles... The VPN function of Orbot is only for intercepting traffic in apps that don't have a SOCKS proxy Tor toggle.

Here is an example an App with proper use of Orbot: https://simplex.chat/docs/guide/privacy-security.html#using-tor

This enables you to continue using any VPN service while Phoenix would SOCKS proxy to Orbot.

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dpad85 commented Mar 5, 2025

With orbot the connection to my tor address of electrs or fulcrum as well as the connecting to acinq service fails completely.

Note that by default Phoenix will not connect to a non-onion address unless you've explicitly told it to in the Electrum settings. Then you should be able to connect. If that's not the case would you mind sharing the address of that server so I can test against it? If you don't want to reveal the address here you can send an email to [email protected]

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Funman2 commented Mar 5, 2025 via email

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