Galaxy Note 2 custom roms - Google Apps crashing
I finally managed to sort it out last night. Some of the steps are redundant.


boot in recovery mode
format all paths visible in boot &amp; mount (possible redundancy here)
back to first level of menu, wipe factory clean, erase cache (redundant IMHO)
go to Advanced -> clean Dalvik cache
install the latest nightly of CyanogenMod (for lack of a more stable release)
install their gapps (even if the Note 2 is not in the list of supported devices - if I read the table correctly)


I have done bits and pieces of the points before - but only all of them put together allowed me to have a working phone (like I said before, there were lots of leftovers from previous experiments).