Well my upgrade experience SUCKED!!

Details..

I ran the upgrade tool and did the reboot after driver was installed.

Then did the USB connect option under the windows Mobile Sync and then the uncheck option after than.

Phone when into Download Mode and began Clearing Data...

Upgrade tool crashed inside Vista(32-bit) with following error:

Faulting application UDL.exe, version 3.0.0.7, time stamp 0x48366764, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a7a6, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0006a78c, process id 0x16a4, application start time 0x01c8e6674d4b5ebe.

I tried to re-launch upgrade application with no luck. It doesn't see the phone.

Stuck... Gonna try to soft-reset device.. its been over 30 minutes in this mode

here goes...

Phone went through normal start up screens.. Verizon then Windows Mobile screen..

Seems very slow on this part...

Phone has done a hard reset... GRRRRR but it is not a Brick yet...

Round #2
Software upgrade reset phone as before..
Unchecked Allow USB connections as directed..
Soft-reset phone as directed...
Application sat for a long time and did not see phone after soft-reset
2nd soft-reset..
application still did not see phone...
Closed application

Round #3
Phone detected this time..
Got Stuck at clearing data again...
Another hard reset...


round #4
I'm getting good at hitting that little red reset button now..
Software detected and reset phone


Round #5
I just love hard-resets!!

Round #6
I know I shouldn't really be doing this at 4am.. but still... it shouldn't be this HARD!!!

Round #7 & 8
More hard resets...

Round #9
FINALLY PDA upgrades to 6.1 but no Phone

Round #10
Failed again with another Hard reset, but this time into 6.1...

Round #11 (6am)
Finally Phone upgrades
Application says it FAILED again..

But Firmware Version shows correct numbers for PDA and PHONE..


I'm not gonna try again with the application, I got what I wanted, but it sucked!!


-Jason