Ethereum wallet shows it has ethers but geth does not show the balance

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I am starting to learn ethereum. I have downloaded the Ethereum Wallet, created two accounts and using Rinkeby faucet I got 3 ethers in one of the account. I can see the balance in my wallet. I then ran geth --testnet --datadir d:\data and it started syncing. I let it run for a day and now it slowly adds new blocks. I started another get console and attached it to get.ipc. On the console, I did:

eth.accounts

I see both the accounts in my wallet with first account set as coinbase. But when I ran

eth.getBalance(accounts[0])

I get 0 balance. What might be something I might have overlooked? Thanks in advance

Did you send it to the other account? What do you get if you try `eth.getBalance(accounts[1])`? — Shane Fontaine, Oct 26 '18 at 20:24
I did not transfer anything to any accounts, both accounts show 0 in geth console but in wallet the first account show 3 ethers and second account show 0 — unni, Oct 26 '18 at 20:30
I get false, when I tried miner.start() I could see 'Commit new mining work' so I take it syncing complete — unni, Oct 26 '18 at 21:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 09:41

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connect to Rinkeby faucet using metamask chrome extension. Provide your account details there you can check that you received ether or not.

answered Oct 30 '18 at 09:41

praveenkakumanu

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 07 '21 at 03:01

It will show you the balance once it has completed syncing. For me it took more than one day to sync, then I could see the account balance properly.

Try eth.syncing to check the status and if eth.blockNumber gives 0 as output that means syncing hasn't finished yet.

Ethereum wallet shows it has ethers but geth does not show the balance

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