NEW official Sprint ROM posted on XDA-dev by DCD

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Originally Posted by anile8r

the only thing im worried about is my contacts list i have about 250 #s on it the prograns i can install easily will spb back up do the trick or any other suggestions

I mean I could be wrong.. but I doubt it cause I've never "backed up" my contacts as they are stored on the computer if you've synced before with active sync. Once you sync up again after a flash or hard reset, its all back. You do lose SMS and call history, programs, and some other stuff. Sometimes for me pictures are saved but you might as well err on the side of caution and transfer them over manually.

You shouldn't need to backup contacts though, I never have for flashing to different custom ROMs or hard resetting. The contacts manager on my pc keeps all the contacts. Flash, hard reset, sync up and it syncs all my old contacts. If you want to prove this to yourself, have the phone disconnected and go into contacts on outlook. If you don't have outlook it should show up in start menu -> accessories -> address book, I believe.

If you are concerned however you can backup using SPB or one of the other many backup programs just to be sure... especially if you want stuff other than just contacts backed up. The biggest pain is reinstalling programs I think.