the has booted up and is fully functional (even thought half the features dont work). i have used apps to save all my messages to my gmail account and have saved all i can to the usb drive then copied all files to my comp.
this is a replacement phone the sprint store gave me bc my other phone was dropped and broken (screen cracked, not really broken). now with this phone i get no/little signal quality all the time, when enabling the wifi it says error and i cannot use, the gps has a hard time finding me and sometimes will not find me. i also do not have the latest build, i have build number: GWK74. when i ask the phone to to do a system update it says my phone is currently up to date. this was all before i tried to install ics on the phone.
now that everything is backed up (besides the data for the apps, but who cares), i think a factory reset is my only other option besides taking it back to the sprint store and asking for a new, less piece of a phone. i thought if i installed ics on the phone it would resolve all these issues plus its cool too, but who knows...