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Miscellaneous Operations on Your Skywallet

The basic initialization and personalization operations are mentioned in the chapters:

However, you can also perform some additional operations on your Skywallet like:

  • Renaming your Skywallet.

  • Removing your Skywallet from the Wallet list.

  • Checking the firmware version of your Skywallet.

Renaming Your Skywallet

Step 1 - Connect your Skywallet to your computer via USB.

Step 2 - Open your Desktop Wallet from your computer.

Step 3 - A window will show the list of all the Wallets configured using your Desktop Wallet.

Step 4 - Select the particular Skywallet which you wish to rename.

Step 5 - Click on the Edit Wallet button.

Step 6 - Once you click on the "Edit Wallet" button a window to edit the name of your Skywallet will appear.

Step 7 - Enter a name for your Skywallet and click on the Rename button to confirm.

You can check your Skywallet in the Wallet list to see the changed name.

Removing a Skywallet from the Wallet List

Step 1 - Open your Desktop Wallet from your computer.

Step 2 - Select the Skywallet you want to remove from the Wallet list.

Step 3 - Click on the Delete Wallet button from the window.

Step 4 - Confirm the operation by ticking the box Yeah, I want to delete the Wallet and clicking on the Yes button.

NOTE 1 - To remove a Skywallet from the Wallet list you don't need to connect it to your computer necessarily.

NOTE 2 - This whole operation only removes the Skywallet from the Wallet list and does not wipe the device.
To know more about how to wipe your Skywallet to remove any personalizations, visit the following chapter - Personalization of your Skywallet.

Also if you want to add the device back to the Wallet list, you can follow the same steps in the chapter - Initialization of your Skywallet.

Checking the Firmware Version of Your Skywallet

The firmware is essential for your Skywallet to work properly. You can check the following chapter to know more about firmware and how to update it periodically - Update Firmware.

To check the current firmware version of your Skywallet, you can follow these steps:

Step 1 - Connect your Skywallet to your computer via USB.

Step 2 - Open the Desktop Wallet from your computer.

Step 3 - A window will show you the list of all the Wallets configured using your Desktop Wallet.

Step 4 - Select your Skywallet from the Wallet list.

Step 5 - You can check for the firmware version in the following window, which appears when you select the Skywallet from the Wallet list.

Firmware Version

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