Hi.
I used BitcoinJ as a base for my wallet, and have a 12-word seed. I have used the wallet a couple of years, and it still works for BTC.
If I manually direkt the client to a Cash-node, I also can see my BCH balance in that wallet, but it has no support for the changed difficulty-regime in Cash-chain, and I cannot sign transaction in Cash-chain.
Therefore I wantet to try Electrum Cash as a wallet for accessing my Cash...
When I start up, and tries to import my seed, it does not seem to recognise my 12 words unless I check for BIP39. But ofc, when recovering witn BIP39 my balance does not show up, since the keys in BitcoinJ is not BIP39.
Did you just use your own made up 12 word seed? Or did you generate one? I'm pretty sure that Bitcoinj is actually BIP39 compliant, as MultiBitHD was using BitcoinJ as it's base... and MultiBitHD was generating BIP39 seeds...
I suspect maybe your Derivation Path is wrong? Do you know what the derivation path of your BitcoinJ wallet is? I can't seem to find any documentation on it.
Why is the button to continue disabled when I don't check BIP39 ? And how should I import my old wallet from BitcoinJ ?
Note - when using BitcoinJ, I can use any 12 words I want as seed, and it creates a wallet that is useable... So why can I not just enter an 12 words and import as non-BIP39-seed using Electrum Cash ?
Because Electrum (and therefore ElectronCash, as it is a fork of Electrum) has it's own proprietary seed format that is not BIP39 compatible (the checksum calculations use different methods). This is why the "BIP39 seed" option exists. So, you can either restore from an Electrum seed or a BIP39 seed... but a made up random collection of words won't work.