[egalitarian]

Just wanted to tell everyone thanks for the help. I suppose it's not very clear anywhere for those of us who don't understand the lingo/jargon used by the modding gururs that there is the bootloader/spl, the radio, and the ROM that need to be updated. I think my problem is that my desktop has some serious corruption from an XP reinstall. Got the RUU to work fine on my laptop. Flashed using Cokeman 3.21 and then needed to upgrade the radio before any of the custom ROMs I tried downloading would work on my phone. I thought I'd bricked my phone as it was stuck on the HTC splash screen. Alas, got it into bootloader and then updated the radio and then flashed with a custom ROM and all was well.

Well, saving I had to call Verizon to reauthenticate my phone (*228 didn't work), and now can't connect to the data network. They put in a trouble ticket and assure me the problem will be fixed within 24-48 hours. If it wasn't for VZW trying to make us pay for services we can get for free (VZ Navigator vs. Google Maps, Garmin), this wouldn't be a problem. Boy they sure try to make it hard to get around them. The average person wouldn't attempt this, that's for sure.

Thanks everyone... Any ideas on how I can fix the data connect problem? I've checked and double checked the user name and password. I can no longer do a ##778 from my phone to enter an A code now. Crazy.

Can anybody tell me if it's possible to download my SMS/MMS messages? I was using BITPIM on my old LG. It won't apparently work with this phone. Any ideas?

Ugh.

Thanks.

Josh