Ok I THINK I have successfully rooted my phone but I'm not sure. I want to try to remove some of the Sprint bloatware but cant get figure out how to back up my current stuff first. I'm trying to use nandroid but cant quite figure it out. I followed the directions on XDA and am stuck at the step where the screen is supposed to turn green and give the option to use nandroid. Idk what I'm doing wrong. I noticed that the directions mention "engineering/dev spl bootloader [1] (or has a dev phone) + a recovery image with busybox and adbd running as root [2] to make full system backups. " on your device but it specifies for teh G1. So I guess I'm not sure if I need that stuff or not.
Anyone able to follow my rant and help I'd really appreciate it!
btw: Here is the xda thread i referenced:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830