[senselessnks]

Ok Time for me to get my nose rubbed in it. I just purchased a clean esn 6700 off ebay. When I called Sprint to activate, the ##xxxxx# codes didnt take and I was told someone had "corrupted my phone and they couldn't turn it on to the Sprint system". Well, I suspected the clerk was blowing smoke up my tailpipe and needless to say, when I sent an email to the seller, i got the "well it worked ok for me...try to flash the ROM back to and see if that will help."

Well, so here I am...reading the forums, trying to to figure out what it means to be a noob. I was able to reflash back to WM5 and the sprint rom. got the phone turned on. Lost all of the cool upgrades that were on the phone to begin with. I run vista and downloaded BuildOS to try and cook my own ROM. I got a bit overanxious and tried to build too large of a ROM, and got the error message from the chef. I shut it off and went to eat. Came back and thought I would try again. Now when I pull up the build OS, i dont get the entire selections. I tried to delete some .rar files and the selection files....even deleted BuildOS and reinstalled... and I still can only select additional ringtones, themes and sounds in the kitchen.

I no doubt have some learning to do, but am willing to try. My plan is to 1) Locate a precooked ROM and install it. I am in the medical field and will want to install some skyscape apps, view Pdfs and use an improved calendar/contact manager. I am going to buy a 4g memory card because my phone didnt come with one. 2) Cook a custom ROM at a later time, once I figure out how to fix Build OS. My problem is when I click on links of what I think are working ROM's, the links are bad and I cant find a "cooked ROM" to load. Eventually would like to install the touchflo theme but not the most inmportant thing right now.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am still learning a lot about this phone and am thankful for all the info I have already seen on this site.

I have no problems moving to WM 6 or 6.1, even though that may not be a good idea according to some. I dont need a lot of the bells and whistles other people mention, just need to send a few text meassages, maybe some pics. with the 6700 to see what customization i may want to do in the future.