[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmptyArea:
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Hi all,

So today was my first full day with my new device an Orange Note 2 LTE (GT-N7105).

The device is locked to Orange, has the usual Samsung bloatware and the EEsim app.

So I started today with mini battery test, from a 100% charge I dropped 18% in 3 hours with 2 hours screen on time.

- Not a vigorous test by any means but suggest that this device does is not inferior battery wise to the N7100 model. (NO LTE active during test)

I then moved onto rooting, I used the following link and successfully rooted with no problems. READ EVERY WORD OF THE FIRST POST AT LEAST.

-http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/samsung-user-group-136/n7105-root-custom-rom-flashing-tutorial-r-d-stage-3942841.html

I then installed custom recovery using the name guide in the above link.

- Recovery installed fine and did a nandroid (which I later deleted by mistake :p)

I then checked and my device status showed as modified, and my counter was at 2.

I then flashed a custom kernel with init.d support., again with no issues.

- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1927852

I then installed the sdexternal2sdinternal mod and it worked perfectly.

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I then wanted to see if I could undo everything.

I flashed this firmware through odin, you extract the file from the zip and place it in PDA (If this cause you any loss in anyway it is not my fault this is not a guide of what to do just info so people know what's what in principal.)

- http://www.hotfile.com/dl/176688736/5947a01/N7105XXALIJ_N7105OLBALIB_MM1.zip.html

My device booted fine, and still had all it's data, I checked my device status and it said (what ever it says when it's not modified lol), but my counter in download mode showed 3 counts. I hadn't expected to see unmodified status with counter > 0 but apparently that counter doesn't affect that dialogue box. I checked for OTA but none showed, I went to recocvery and wiped data and cache, rebooted, clicked OTA and it found and downloaded. I could not find where it downloaded this file and it insisted on reminding me at least every 3 hours I had to update.

- So now I was on stock firmware, no root, device status unmodified, OTA worked, the phone still locked to orange.

I re-rooted again, flashed CWM as before, wiped data and this time when I booted I got a load of singTel bloatware - I'm not sure why this either didn't appear before or why I hadn't see it. Anyway, I flashed the kernel again and the sd mod and it all work. I used titanium to remove all the extra bloatware. Downloaded a few games with large file sizes, then installed to the removable card and played absolutely fine.

Finally I used Triangle away to reset the counter just to make sure that worked, and it did.

What's next:

Well there are no custom roms for the n7105 at the moment, not even stock roms with root, deoxed, etc, etc, BUT there is someone working on a patch to make n7100 roms work. At the moment flashing an n7100 custom rom on the n7105 will work but no modem activity at all (no network, wifi, data, etc etc) They tried using the n7105 modem on the n7100 but it didn't work, they're working on it but it is harder than they expected. I'll link this later.

Network unlock - the galaxsim unlock app (free from market) is work on the n7100 (apparently) but not on any of the many LTE variants. The dev is working on it, but the way the network lock is store is completely different (at least file names and locations are that's as far my expertise goes I'm afraid) it looks promising though especially if the US handset are different in the same way as ours.

So to recap, the orange (EE) handset can have:

Root

Custom recovery,

A complete SD card for SD internal swap