[bryanus]

Yikes, how long is this update supposed to take? I'm going from .114...

My first attempt resulted in a black screen, unresponsive BB for about 25 mins before I decided something wasn't right and I did a battery pull. The Loader app was stuck at the end of "Connect to the device ROM" and showed no signs of progress.

After it rebooted, I then did a full Wipe and tried again, selecting the "do not backup" option, and now I'm back at the same spot again. The Loader is fully finished on the "Connect to device ROM", but it's been about 26 mins and it's just on a black screen, totally unresponsive, and no signs of any further progress. No red light or anything.

Is this normal?

EDIT: I figured it out. I was trying to apply the update through VMWare Fusion on my macPro, which has always worked before. But rebooting into native XP seems to have done the trick and in just a few minutes!