Android MODs and Kernel's - my experience

For a while I had been tempted to try a different mod from the stock TouchWiz for the Samsung Galaxy S3. My biggest issue was to ensure that while modding the phone, I don't lose any of my data. Thankfully, with so many apps being completely cloud-based, this risk becomes less and less as time goes by.

Anyway, after taking a huge number of different backups, I went for my first MOD. Slimbean. I