not to be a dick, but why the hell did you even need a client update? just what the hell was wrong with the client before? if it aint broke don't fix it.

Read subject ... read 1st post ... start thinking ... that's why.

man this sucks. i really wanted PHS to succeed but its pretty much dead now. rather than admit defeat, the dev needs to contact an experienced dev like muddafudda to unfuck his coin. he unfucked nanotokens. its worth a shot

I am synced and here are my network stats which I believe are the correct/official block chain of v1.2:

10:40:00
{
"blocks" : 8277,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.60667636,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 20070518,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

To get on the chain, delete all but your wallet.dat and .conf and put "connect=188.252.16.109" or "connect=64.120.17.149" in your .conf and restart.  This will download only from that node so it should not get stuck downloading the chain.  Once you sync you can change the connect back to addnode.

Did all this (with connect=188.252.16.109; if I use 64.120.17.149 it gets me nowhere)...now I'm back to being stuck at good old block 6084...same place I was stuck yesterday.

tried it. that node isnt even online.

For sure -- I'm calling it quits for now...but appreciate your help.

you guys try a -rescan with the connect= ?

ya isn't there another command like -resync tho? or somesuch, might work

because the dev attempted to change block rewards of blocks prior to current height of the update. rookie mistake. now the coin is as good as dead, because the chain is all screwed up. the only way to fix it now would be to go back, fork it a few blocks before where the reward changes, re release then let everyone sync. then make a checkpoint for the current block (8277 or whatever), then put a checkpoint into a new source for that block height, then re release and pray like hell it works. of course it won't work because he's manipulated block values of a block that had already been mined.