[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] lucaoldb:
Happy new year

First of all, happy new year to everybody.

Regarding the files by the OP, my phone has been running fine for 24 hours and battery drain is normal and phone signal is very good, so congrats again (yesterday I had gone over the 8 thanks per day lol).

I see that many of you sadly are unable to let things work (even a friend I helped in updating the zip just like the one that had worked for me) and I think I can give a couple of info to the OP about the way his script actually works and some other little tips to the users that don't feel like waiting for him to fix the script, because waiting is too hard:)

So, for the OP.

Your script does flash the kernel, the reason why it does not boot is that the display drivers (which are in system.tar) are not being flashed on the phone. I am sure about this because I flashed the update, it did not boot, I flashed another kernel (by purpose) and it booted. I checked the info about the phone and saw that the different kernel had actually been flashed, than I went back to recovery and flashed your zip, it booted flawlessly and I saw that actually the agni kernel had been flashed. So the script flashes the kernel, only.

On the other side, your zip, both with cwm and twrp (tried even different versions) does not unpack and/or does not flash the content or system.tar and data.tar.

I don't know if it's a missing tar -xvzf bash command or something like that (it should be something close to a mismatching) but I am sure that, at least in my phone, your script did not put your modified files into /system and /data because I manually checked them.

I frankly dislike the update zips in "lollipop" style, with tar files instead of normal /system and /app folders and, after all, since your files do work fine (and that's great and I feel it mustn't have been easy to get them working) I think you could consider to move back to a pre-lollipop zip, so that handling the updater script will be more straight forward. Just a humble suggestion:)

Regarding those who are unable to let things work by putting the files coming from the OP inside a new zip, I thinks that some info is needed for the less skilled ones:

- the wonderful files provided by the OP are not a full rom, but the "bricks" of a patch to let a rom for N7100 work on N7105;

- if you unpack the zip and system.tar, you will see the subfolders /bin, /etc, /framework, /lib, /priv-app, /vendor, build.prop and CSCversion... Well, most of this files cannot not be overwritten by the corresponding ones for N7100 or you will loose baseband. This means that you MUST (and capitals are needed lol) absolutely flash the rom, its updates, a zip with /system and /data coming from the original zip provided by the OP and the zip itself. To this point, the phone should boot (not tested) even without flashing separately the agni kernel, but still I suggest to flash it, since it will not be harmful. What I want to make clear is that changing the order of the updates will change the result and you will get no baseband and, further more, if any of you, once everything is set up and working, should decide to update the rom by downloading things made for N7100, unless he exactly knows what he's flashing (and in this case he obviously doesn't need my suggestion) he could loose baseband as well, because those updates/mods could overwrite the files provided by the OP, which are necessary for things to work. As you can see, the OP provided a CSC file too, I don't know if anything could change if you should flash a different CSC (maybe) but please remember that most flashable modem come with their CSC along, so that's why flashing a modem after flashing the files from the OP is not wise.

My suggestion to have everything working is to take one of the update zips you downloaded from the e-team website, remove with 7 zip or with any other file manager suitable for handling compressed files the folders /system, /data and /eteam (if it's there) so that you will see only /META-INF. Then you should unpack the 2 rar files system.tar and data.tar provided by the OP. For linux users is very easy (by command line tar -xvzf filename) for windows users I don't remember, but you can unpack those 2 files by using even your phone, i.e. with B1 Archiver (free). Then, by using your pc, you just have to drag and drop /data and /system into the update.zip and rename it a you like it. This zip must be flashed after the rom and the 5 updates, then you have got to flash the zip by the OP and the kernel and nothing else. It's dummy proof and, if you follow this steps, you should get baseband. To be true, if a bunch of us have everything working fine and some other do not, they must have done something different, unless there are unpredictable hardware differences.

The only variable is the baseband you're coming from. In my case, though I am italian, I am still on 4.1.2 bootloader and, when I use Odin, I flash a 4.1.2 portuguese rom and that should be the only different thing (software side) between my phone and the ones of every single user.

I hope this can help:)