Since I was pretty much in Dybbuk's position, except worse because I really had a "very expensive brick" for several days, plus all the time and stress the whole procedure cost me, I have to agree with his conclusion that the upgrade was released prematurely. That doesn't lessen my appreciation of Steve for staying on the phone with me until we knew the upgrade was successful, but the point is that it shouldn't have been necessary. I guess the "learning curve" Steve mentioned to me just turned out to be steeper, with more twists and turns, than anyone anticipated. So what can be done to prevent a repetition on the next upgrade? - more beta testing with Steve or Scott on the phone maybe?

From scanning these posts, it seems that people experienced more issues when using the USB cable.

Did anyone have a successful update with this cable?

Cheers.

I had a successful update using USB. Totally without problems. Only issue was I neglected to write down my setup before I did the upgrade. Took about half an hour to figure out which device went to which input. It is written down now. Again, no problems with update process.

But then I have no problems with my Dish 622, and if you read the Dish forums, I have the only unit in existence that works as specified.

Yeah, re-inputting all the setup parameters is a pain. Rather than writing it down, I just put my digital camera on a tripod and took pictures of every screen that I cared about. Then, after the FW install, I had all my settings on my camera and could just flip right through them. I ended up saving them on my PC in case I lose them on the 990, for whatever reason.

--Otto

I upgraded mine with a USB cable and it worked perfectly the first time. The only difficulty I had was getting to the OPR/SVC switch in among the mass of cables.

I don't know if it's within the realm of possibility but it would be nice if the updater had a settings import/export feature so you could reload your settings after an upgrade.

I updated mine via USB. It didn't work the first time for me but after re-reading the instructions, I discovered I had not followed them exactly. Followed instructions - successful update.

I don't believe the handful of people who have posted to this board with problems is a true representation of the viability of the update. There are 100's of us who don't post that have successfully updated.

I used a USB and had a successful update also.
my auto calibrate worked the same as befor and came up with the exact same settings.

Followed the directions to the letter, used a USB cable (came from my media card reader!) updated the firmware with no problem whatsoever. I would imagine that the people that updated their firmware without any problems would not be posting thier success, only the people that had problems. I wonder what percentage of people had this problem.

I recently purchased a 990, and had to to the upgrade. Used a USB cable, got an error. I turned the pwr switch off and on, then completed the upgrade w/out trouble.

it took me two trys using a USB cable for my upgrade.