[godspeed6]

After the end of the 30-day return period, my Hero is finally sleeping like a baby.

After my last post, I think I did another hard reset after I noticed that it went back to not being able to sleep (100%--Perfect sync of "Up time" and "Awake time"). Also, after the last hard reset, I found the notices that Sprint had finally released the firmware update. Don't know if the fix was because of the last hard reset or the update, but the point is that the phone is working at optimal levels.

The relevant third-party apps I'm using are Advanced Task Killer, Handcent (just better interface than stock SMS- IMHO) and Spare Parts (thought for a moment that this could have been an Up time culprit). ATK still installed, cuz I just like being able to shut down the apps that just arbitrarily run even though I never opened up (i.e. Sprint Nav, Footprint, Messages (stock SMS)). Why do these damn programs, and others, have to start up? Hate it.

Anywho, everything is good to go, and I'm glad things worked out before the end of the 30-day period.