First off I am not a native speaker/writer so please excuse me if you see mistakes on this guide.

Front Note: This guide is pretty noob friendly you don’t need use Orbot just to use Samourai Wallet you can skip the steps which are related to Orbot also i included basic screenshots for people who are coming from IOS and are new to Android don’t scare from the article because it has lots of screenshots most are very common steps.

cool image from Samourai

Sometimes we need to restore our wallet. Electrum is great but not for us Samourai users because we have to import our legacy, SegWit and native SegWit addresses separately also if we use PayNyms we want directly use Samourai to restore our wallet. For users who don’t have access to an Android device can use Samourai Wallet with this way (yes you IOS users btw Samourai for IOS really soon)

Let’s start.

1.Visit https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and download VirtualBox for your favorite OS.

linux ftw!

2.Install VirtualBox (its pretty easy however if you got stuck get help from DuckDuckGo)

if you got stuck on installing VirtualBox just use me!

3.Now we need Android luckily we can get it from here: http://www.android-x86.org/download if your PC is x64 download “android-x86_64–7.1-r2.iso” otherwise download “android-x86–7.1-r2.iso”

if you don’t know what your PC is use DuckDuckGo to learn it!

4.Open up VirtualBox and click “New” on upper left. Switch to “expert mode” because why not? We are pros now.

don’t mind my virtualboxes

5.Follow the screenshots below now.

we need minimum 1024 mb ram but i highly recommend to give it atleast 2048 mb we can adjust that on the future so not a big of deal for first installation using 2048 mb or higher will always be better

8 gb storage is enough click create

easy right? lets fire up Android now

6.Android Installation follow the screenshots below

we need to show our box the android iso location click on the yellowish icon

open the downloaded iso file and start your box protip: when virtualbox captures your mouse use your “right control” key on your keyboard which is the “control” key on the right side of your keyboard

pick the third option for the installation don’t use Live CD option because everything will be erased in next boots

press “c” on your keyboard hit enter

nope we don’t want GPT select no

use your keyboard to navigate pick “new”

primary hit enter

don’t touch hit enter

hit enter to make it bootable

use your keyboard and go to write and hit enter

type “yes” on your keyboard and hit enter

now select “quit” to exit from this ugly black screen

just hit enter

select “ext4” and hit enter

select yes and hit enter

yes we want GRUB select yes and hit enter

select no and hit enter

7.CAUTION IN THIS STEP

when you see this screen do the thing in the next screenshot

this step is really important if we don’t remove the android installation iso we can’t boot into the installed system (sorry for the quality of screenshot had to take it like this otherwise i could not show it)

yes force unmount

now select reboot and hit enter

wait 5 seconds or hit enter

8.We got Android!

now click let’s go and configure your android as you wish

protip: if you have problem with the mouse on VirtualBox untick the Mouse Integration

9.Follow the screenshots for a recommended installation

set up as new

you can add a gmail account but don’t because google is evil and not good for our privacy just skip

yes skip

next

enter a name

turn off the location settings and data reports

yes we are all set now

i prefer and recommend Launcher3

now the boring part is over let the fun begin!

10.Installation of Orbot(tor app for android) and Samourai Wallet we will use Yalp Store for this a Google Play alternative which is open-source keep following the screenshots

enter chrome search for yalp store click to the fdroid page

scroll down and download the apk give the required permissions to chrome

scroll down the status bar click on the downloaded apk

it will give this warning click settings

turn on unknown sources on

ok

the installation screen will probably vanish just download the apk file again and install it

install

decline google play protect

open

now we are in Yalp Store!

11.This time really installing Orbot and Samourai Wallet

click on the search icon write orbot and search

click on orbot

hit dowload

allow

install it a screen will pop-up press install and open orbot

skip it from bottom right

long press on the onion icon and wait for it to connect and then switch to VPN Mode

ok

now we are connected to tor and our entire android box is fully torified hop back from recents to yalp store

search for Samourai Wallet

download it just like we did to Orbot

press install then from pop-up again install

now open samourai (finally)

12.Setup your Samourai Wallet or restore a Backup

select mainnet

you can read why the permissions needed and allow them

from the top right you can import an old backup or just create a new wallet

IMPORTANT THE PASSPHRASE IS JUST LIKE A SEED WRITE DOWN IT TO PAPER AND KEEP IT SAFE TOGETHER WITH YOUR SEEDS

enter a pin

confirm your pin

YOUR SEEDS WRITE THEM DOWN TO PAPER AND KEEP THEM SAFE TOGETHER WITH YOUR PASSPHRASE

claim your paynym

claim it public on paynym.is/+yourpaynymname if you want its cool so yes

we are finally here our torified Samourai Wallet

default settings are cool privacy focused go to networking

click route via tor(we are already on tor since we have are routing our entire android box via tor this is just for keep it safe if the full route fails in the future)

after you see Samourai is routing via Tor we are done just hit back to safely exit Samourai to be sure

yes

hit the home button to come to the main screen to see all installed apps swipe of from the little white arrow

here we are our Samourai Wallet open it

now we are finally done we have now a Samourai Wallet created on the Tor Network and will use tor for the future, Orbot will automatically start at boot when you close your virtualbox you can follow that proccess from statusbar then enter safely to your Samourai Wallet

13.Last Words

I thought writing articles like that would be easy but as you can see from my clock at start and at the end it took me a lot but it worth it now we have a great resource like this (I think its great!) feel free to share it.

I know there are lots of mistakes on this article feel free to hit me up on telegram and i will fix them (@yilmazfurkan) also if you have any other questions!