[herbster]

It might not be a new app, yes it could be something that was sent via sprint or it could be that the software thinks that the device is new and starts the device activation process. I agree that it is a major issue having to hard reset the phone. A couple of notes. One time I was able to cancel the activation and it booted fine. Another time when at the dreaded reboot screen I was able to hit another key other than the up key, wait approx 30 seconds and it booted properly. It is my guess that this thread will become quite large if it is not a specific app we both loaded. I would suggest using a backup program such as sprite, spb or myphone (free) in addition to syncing it as these will restore your apps and how you had most things setup beforehand.