# Unresponsive wallet extensions (/wallets/auth/wallet-ui-kit/known-issues/unresponsive-wallet-extensions)

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt)



A broken wallet extension can announce itself over EIP-6963 yet never answer requests: the extension's in-page script keeps announcing while its background process is dead, so calls to the wallet stay pending forever instead of failing. Wagmi's mount-time reconnect (`reconnectOnMount`, on by default) queries every announced extension with no timeout, so one such extension pins `useAccount().status` at `'connecting'` or `'reconnecting'` forever, and any UI waiting for Wagmi to settle never unlocks. It hits apps whose sign-up page shows no wallet units and users who never connected the wallet — extension discovery is also on by default. Wagmi [considers this a wallet bug](https://github.com/wevm/wagmi/pull/4042); restarting the browser or reinstalling the broken extension clears it.

## Add a deadline [#add-a-deadline]

Force a boot that hasn't settled within five seconds into `'disconnected'` — the state Wagmi's reconnect produces when no connector is authorized. The watchdog disarms once boot settles, so a slow user-initiated connect is never cut off:

```tsx
// Alongside your Wagmi providers
import { useEffect } from 'react'
import { config } from './wagmi'

export function useReconnectDeadline() {
  useEffect(() => {
    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
      const { status } = config.state
      if (status !== 'connecting' && status !== 'reconnecting') return
      config.setState((state) => ({
        ...state,
        connections: new Map(),
        current: null,
        status: 'disconnected',
      }))
    }, 5_000)
    const unsubscribe = config.subscribe(
      (state) => state.status,
      (status) => {
        if (status === 'connected' || status === 'disconnected') {
          clearTimeout(timer)
          unsubscribe()
        }
      },
    )
    return () => {
      clearTimeout(timer)
      unsubscribe()
    }
  }, [])
}
```

Call it once in any component that mounts at boot — the one that renders `WagmiProvider` works. Sign-in then proceeds normally; recover with `connect()`, not `reconnect()` (a no-op while a reconnect is already running).

<Callout type="info">
  Apps without external wallets can instead set `multiInjectedProviderDiscovery: false` in `createConfig` — no extension is ever queried. The [external wallet units](/wallets/auth/wallet-ui-kit/connect-wallet#external-wallets) depend on discovery.
</Callout>