[LocalHero]

I did the hard reset and that fixed my problem. I've restored my backed up info successfully and spent more time adjusting settings, and all is going well at this point. Thanks so much for your help, I couldn't/wouldn't have done it without you!

As was predicted, I have a better understanding of how mobile devices work and what it means to flash a rom, etc. I'm hoping the predictions arent' 100% accurate and I don't become addicted to flashing roms because it's taken a ton of time already! That said, I'm wondering if I'll keep this rom. There's a couple of features that I'd like to change but I don't know if they're integral to the rom or customizable features. The new rom doesn't come with a manual...

Is there a way to disable the slide-to-unlock thing? It's much easier to me to just hold the end button down to unlock but that seems to not work now and I haven't found any setting to change that.

Also when ending a call, pressing the end button simply turns the display back on and it takes a second press of the end button to end the call. Previous phones I've had were such that pressing the end button during a call both turned the display back on AND ended the call.

Next, can I get missed call/missed text, new voicemail notifications to stay on the screen til I manually clear them?

I tried to go into setting/personal/phone/alerts to see if there was a setting there but not so. While there I enabled a connect tone option but now I can't get that window to close no matter what options I choose. I can't get to any other setting/personal/phone options because that window always comes up. Is this just a bug in the rom?

There's other glitches it seems but for a last question, will spb shell still play nice with this rom? I'm not sure I want spb shell but I'd like to try it again on the new rom if it won't mess things up.

John