Thankfully Bitwarden’s services run in Azure which is typically fairly reliable with good up time.
That being said things can and will happen from time to time and thankfully Bitwarden’s great team works quickly to fix these as well.
There is a feature request and I believe plans on the roadmap to allow offline access and changes in the future.
This is a however a great time to touch on how important it is to always ensure a good consistent backup strategy with any password vault.
Your data is just that, your data and dedicating some personal time to ensuring your data remains safe can save you much possible headaches in the future. Good backups can prevent any issues where Bitwarden goes down, changes their business model and makes major changes (don’t ever see Bitwarden doing this, they even make it very easy to extract your data and don’t believe in vendor lock in), or even just in the event of human error and you fat finger something making an irreversible change.
Once I logged in. I did an export from BW to create a .csv file. I opened and then slightly modified the .csv file in MS Excel and then printed the spreadsheet columns that I wanted (sitename/userid/password ) and secured the printed file. Then I deleted the .csv file.
BTW - I still cannot unlock my Bitwarden vault on my Android phone at 10:40 CST
@cwr64 Ouch, not looking to store a plaintext, unencrypted copy of my entire vault on disk anywhere. That seems at odds with the idea of using a password vault at all.
I was hoping for something like “download this encrypted JSON, then decrypt if needed using your master password, use this command, etc…” e.g. some form of gpg etc.
If any of you that can now unlock your BW vault using your cellphone who were not able to do it not long ago, please update this “ticket” so I can try it again on my cell phone (where it is still not working as of 11:24 CST). I get only the message “An error has occurred”.
Export an encrypted .json of your vault, which can be used to restore the vault contents in case something became corrupted or you accidentally deleted an important item and it was purged from the Trash. **NOTE: you cannot restore an encrypted backup to vault that has been reset or had its keys rotated, so this is NOT a solution to restore your date if you ever get accidentally locked out of your vault.
Create a secure, encrypted container using VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt, or an encrypted .dmg volume on MacOS. Save an unencrypted (plain text) .json export to this container. This is more work, but you can restore your vault contents to a new Bitwarden account, if necessary. You can also search this file for logins/passwords in an emergency.
Another note: if you have file attachments in your vault, they cannot be exported to a .json file, which is text-based and is not really meant for large, binary data files, such as images. So, you should backup any attachments you wish to preserve to an encrypted container, as mentioned above.
OK here’s where I am now at 3:21PM CST.
I can unlock my vault from browsers on my W10 desktop.
I can also unlock my vault from a browser on my Android Samsung cell phone.
I cannot unlock my vault from the BW app on Android Samsung cellphone - I get the same error message I have been getting all day today.
Should I uninstall and reinstall the BW app on my cellphone? Or if the BW site is still not “fixed” please update this “ticket” to say so and when it might get fixed.
CR
Hi @cwr64 - sorry to hear your phone still won’t access Bitwarden.
Here is what I would try:
Logout of Bitwarden by clicking the three-dot menu at the top-right corner of the Unlock screen. Restart your phone. Try logging in again.
If that doesn’t work, go into your Android settings then go to Apps → Bitwarden → Storage → Clear Data. This will ‘reset’ the app on your phone. Try logging in again.
Hope one of those work!
P.S. If you want to open a support ticket, you will have to contact the Bitwarden CS team directly - the website you are posting to here is just the community forum where Bitwarden customers hang out, not the support team.
I cannot do #1 of the items you mentioned because I am not even logged in.
I did #2 and then rebooted before trying BW again and there was no change to the problem.
When I launch BW on my phone it immediately takes me to a screen which has only 3 choices, one of which is to log in.
The other 2 choices are of no interest. One of them is to create a new account.
So I enter my email address and Master Password to log in. Then about 2-3 seconds later I get the same error message I have received all day. I get the same error msg if I enter a totally bogus email and password, btw.
So what to do now - uninstall/reinstall BW?
If I need to open a ticket with BW support, exactly how do I do that?
BW CS did not timely reply to my 2nd email so I uninstalled BW, then rebooted phone.
Then installed the BW app from the Play Store (V2.15), then rebooted phone.
Then started the BW app and logged right in with no problem.
I have no idea what went wrong with the original BW app (V2.11).
CR
I have the same problem, but just with the extension, desktop app and web. On my phone I can acess, but on the extension, web and desktop I have a error with the two factor, but I put the same code I see on MS Authenticator.
Check to make sure that your phone’s time and date, as well as time zone, are all set correctly. It sounds like this is a problem with your phone’s authenticator app.
I am able to login the android app via fingerprint, but I can’t on the website - it says invalid username / password. The support status page says the login problems were resolved a few days ago - but I’m still seeing them. Anyone else? I filed a support ticket too.
Working perfectly for me - I just logged out and did a new login on two devices.
Most of the time, invalid username/password errors mean that you have something just slightly wrong with either your email or password (e.g., capitals, a space at the end of the password, etc.). Check really, really carefully and I bet that’s it! Good luck.
Very strange but I can’t login on any device. I even reinstaled Microsoft Authenticator. I don’t know if the fault is from Microsoft, Bitwarden or me, but I use the Authenticator for Twitch and worked. Luckly my phone app didn’t log out, so I already exported the data and I will create a new account because I don’t know where I saved my recover keys lol
Thanks
Oh, when I was creating my new account and enabling two factor for Bitwarden, I received an error on Microsoft Authenticator
Bro, there’s something really broken between Microsoft Authenticator and Bitwarden. When I read the QR Code, I received an error on the app. So, I put manually the code and ok, MS Authenticator approved. Back on Bitwarden, I put the code to end the configuration for two factor and I received “Invalid token.”
