Noob needs your help to understand

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Hey guys, I just need to know how far up **** creek without a paddle I am and how I got here. I had a stock JF6, a friend told me to root with unleash the beast so I did. Been running great and aside from using metamorph to install a few swype themes and nav bar themes, it was stock. I had managed to learn a bit and heard clockwork mod was a great thing, and was making backups regularly.

Well since everything was going so well, I decided to dig deeper and install cognition 2.1. Things went fine, until I got to first boot, then I realized all my stuff was gone, should have known and me being changed my mind. So I went and booted into recovery, and tried to restore my most recent backup, well of course it failed when it came to data because cognition had formatted it.

Well after a lot of formatting data/cache, I tried to install the cognition 2.1.zip, got an error message.. Failed to install. After rebooting I was stuck in the att white screen boot loop. So once again formatted data, and this time I ran update.zip(unleash the beast).

HERES my question, now I seem to have some kind of hybrid, on first boot of cognition I got the custom boot sounds and wallpaper. Nothing now, however my baseband is now JH7, and it says something about voodoo lag fix. But still says 'beast .... Teaser' for system info.

I'm so confused, what's the best way for me to get a stable version of cognition running? Ill just install all my data, I just wabt to know exactly what my phone is running.


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Best bet is to flash back to JF6, root, install ROM Manager, and load Cognition from that.

Also, that question its better suited for q&a, not the dev forum


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Originally Posted by sdotbrucato

Best bet is to flash back to JF6, root, install ROM Manager, and load Cognition from that.

Also, that question its better suited for q&a, not the dev forum

Don't forget to disable lagfix before you Odin.

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Sorry, I just mainly check here and the themes and apps section.. Completely forgot about the other ones.

So if I wanted to flash back to jf6.. Would I just get one of these stock dumps floating around and flash it? Or is there a better way?


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Use the Odin One Click that's posted at the top of this forum. It will flash you back to stock in a matter of seconds.

Originally Posted by Sportsguy15

Use the Odin One Click that's posted at the top of this forum. It will flash you back to stock in a matter of seconds.

THANK YOU.

this is what I needed to know. So basically, odin one click, use any method to root (probably just use a one-click this time), and then download rom manager and install cognition from clockworkmod? and thats all it would take?

Much easier then what I had in mind.

Originally Posted by bamathrasher

THANK YOU.

this is what I needed to know. So basically, odin one click, use any method to root (probably just use a one-click this time), and then download rom manager and install cognition from clockworkmod? and thats all it would take?

Much easier then what I had in mind.

Yep, that's all you need to do. I've started doing that any time I flash a new rom, ie, One-click to stock, root, rom manager, flash new rom.
I have had similar issues when I try to flash over an existing rom, plus it is nice to start with a fresh rom, no bugs.

Originally Posted by bobbylx

Yep, that's all you need to do. I've started doing that any time I flash a new rom, ie, One-click to stock, root, rom manager, flash new rom.
I have had similar issues when I try to flash over an existing rom, plus it is nice to start with a fresh rom, no bugs.

Data on ext4 survives an Odin flash, so if you are on voodoo, it's a bit more involved than just flashing.

Originally Posted by rajendra82

Data on ext4 survives an Odin flash, so if you are on voodoo, it's a bit more involved than just flashing.

I saw something like this in the Cognition thread, about creating a file called "disable-lagfix" or something and placing it on the root of the sd. Is that the extra step you are referring too, and if so, I definitely need to do this?

Originally Posted by bamathrasher

I saw something like this in the Cognition thread, about creating a file called "disable-lagfix" or something and placing it on the root of the sd. Is that the extra step you are referring too, and if so, I definitely need to do this?

Yes. That's the correct method to put /data back on RFS. Once you have created the file and rebooted, a robotic lady will inform you that the /data is being converted. Once this boot finishes, you are at a point where Odin or Clockwork will be able to help you. When /data is in ext4 format, the other programs don't recognize it, and don't work properly.