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I'll take one

My wife needs a new phone - she's still using a Captivate Slide...

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If your phone doesn't reboot until you put the SD card in, have you tried leaving it out to see if the problem goes away? If it does, then something may be wrong with the SD card and you should get a new one.

I'd like one!

It's the other way - the 777 doesn't have LTE, the 727 does.

I never set up anything to sync mine and they're backed up to my Google account. When I installed JellyBean I had to do a full wipe and they contacts were downloaded after I entered my Google account info in the initial setup.

Go into the contacts app, export your contacts to a file, and copy the file to your PC. All your contacts should be automatically backed up to your Google account too.

Use the ExynosAbuse exploit [ROOT EXPLOIT+PATCH][2012.12.19] ExynosAbuse APK v1.40 - xda-developers

The Exynos exploit is here: [ROOT EXPLOIT+PATCH][2012.12.19] ExynosAbuse APK v1.40 - xda-developers Supernexus ROM topic is here: [ROM][AOSP][JB][4.2.1][JOP40D] SuperNexus 2.0 - I777 - BUILD 1 [01-01-13] - xda-developers Forum for AT&T SGS2 ROMS: AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development -...

You will want to back up anything you want to save when you flash a new ROM because you will have to do a factory reset during the process. Once you have root and flash a kernel with CWM, you can use CWM to do a "nandroid" backup of your phone. You can also use Titanium Backup (get the pro...

I upgraded my wife's Glide, and Kies wouldn't recognize the phone until I rebooted the phone. Then it worked with no problem.

You might try disabling any apps you have running in the background to see if that helps. I installed Task's JB ROM on my phone, and it had the "sleep of death" problem at least once a day. I had Juice Defender running, so I disabled it. No more "sleep of death"...

Follow these directions to return the phone to stock: [GUIDE] How to Prepare Your Phone to Return to the Store or for Warranty Replacement - xda-developers . This should get you back to Gingerbread (2.3.4). If you want to root, follow these directions: [GUIDE] How to Flash Custom Binaries...

CWM is built into the kernel for this phone, it's not a separate install.