Thanks ? I could really care less about my data that is what titanium is for. I would be just as happy to wipe it all out and start fresh.If you are trying to retain your data but want to upgrade and are getting UI FC's, try going into recovery (make a backup of course) and wipe system, cache, and dalvik cache. Then reboot directly to download mode and Odin the tar file (or just flash the zip in recovery since that is what this thread is about).
Sometimes there is no going around it, a full wipe may be needed (data partition as well as the previously mentioned). If you use titanium backup, you should know the routine. Not a terribly tedious procedure, and probably best way to do it anyway.
Hope this helps.
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