jamisonwest,

I'm not sure about the query capability. There are so many variables here. Did you have Active Sync up. Did you do it perhaps after a call. Who knows. The only way to tell for sure would be to test with the stack you had working.

sdcot,

Like jpmihalk said always do the back up. It's easy. But just as importantly (for me anyway) is do an active sync too [that's my critical data].

As far as trying with out hard reset, it does not hurt to try (for this patch because this patch is a superset of all patches) (after a backup & activesync). If it doesn't work and you really want the new features and others seem to have had luck on your phone then it's time to hard reset. A Hard Reset device puts all phone in the same state (for a comparison reference). So much software out there that could be causing complications. Now that we better understand the memory error conflict with the CDMA radio I'm a little less concerned about the required need for hard resets. Some patches I have have files removed and you have to manually know how to remove them or hard reset. Also if you have previously patched it doing a restore may restore an old patch. So be aware of that too.