Hi,
I'll recap my posts from XDA since no one there was able to help me solve my issue 100%.
I had an XEF (France) ROM, which I thought was XSG (UAE) since I live in the UAE.
it was DME6 with DMF1 as baseband.
everything was fine until I accidently flashed an S3 ROM on my Note 2. (GT-N7100)...