[laythy]

for people who has plans that cant get the hero on, get a hero from ebay and exchange the esn number on it with another regular phone (if you know how to do that) and then activate it.
sprint will be fooled that the phone is the older on when the hardware is actually the hero

not sure if its possible on the hero for 100% but ive tried it before on htc diamond with another esn and it worked just fine