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So it is Funny to me NOW that the situation appears to be fixed...but the past 6 hours have been horrible with my 920 and it stressed me out so bad I feel like I was on the verge of a nervous break down....
Read on
Okay so I wanted to do a hard reset on my Lumia 920 to sync my microsoft accounts between my Surface and 920(previously they were using 2 different microsoft accounts).
Okay Cool.....So i did a factory reset(i've done like 3-4 in the past 3 weeks i've had for various reasons and NEVER had an issue). But today at 6 a.m. it decides it wants to "brick" itself and it got stuck on the Spinning Gears thing.
At first it wasn't that big a deal but after an hour i got worried so i came to WPcentral to see how to fix it...again i had never had this issue before.
So I followed the details in the thread to fix a bricked 920....Downloaded all I needed to download.
I go to download Nokia Care and I get some bogus message from Windows 8 stating this below
"This package installation could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid Windows Installer Package."
What? What does that even mean.....
I redownlaoded the nokia care file like 10 times and always got that.
So then i tried to find alternative files via bing.....and I found a nokia care suite that would actually install properly.
Except wait....It was an older one. I could not find my Lumia 920 in their...the oldest phone that had was the 900.
So I am literally combing through XDA, WPcentral, google, bing....took a drive to Mcdonalds for a moment to take a break, came back and still my phone was spinning gears.
So i got to the point where after 6 hours of trying to fix it myself...I decided to make a thread here asking for help.
What do you know?
As I am typing my thread to ask for help and complain lol....the 920 just UNBRICKS itself. It literally begins working. I hadn't touched it or anything. I literally did nothing to it.
So this has been a crappy morning and day...I went through a moment of confusion, to anger, to wanting throw up a bit, to almost pulling out my old Galaxy S3 and popping my sim card in the phone and putting the Lumia 920 away for Good.
Nokia REALLY needs to fix this because I never had this issue with any phone bricking itself after a factory reset. Suppose I wanted to sell this phone to someone and it bricked when i reset it?
So anyway I am about to resync all my stuff to my phone...YAY.
Please tell me though....
What does ""This package installation could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid Windows Installer Package."
and how do i get around this to install Nokia Care Suite in case this happens again and I need to unbrick it....
Read on
Okay so I wanted to do a hard reset on my Lumia 920 to sync my microsoft accounts between my Surface and 920(previously they were using 2 different microsoft accounts).
Okay Cool.....So i did a factory reset(i've done like 3-4 in the past 3 weeks i've had for various reasons and NEVER had an issue). But today at 6 a.m. it decides it wants to "brick" itself and it got stuck on the Spinning Gears thing.
At first it wasn't that big a deal but after an hour i got worried so i came to WPcentral to see how to fix it...again i had never had this issue before.
So I followed the details in the thread to fix a bricked 920....Downloaded all I needed to download.
I go to download Nokia Care and I get some bogus message from Windows 8 stating this below
"This package installation could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid Windows Installer Package."
What? What does that even mean.....
I redownlaoded the nokia care file like 10 times and always got that.
So then i tried to find alternative files via bing.....and I found a nokia care suite that would actually install properly.
Except wait....It was an older one. I could not find my Lumia 920 in their...the oldest phone that had was the 900.
So I am literally combing through XDA, WPcentral, google, bing....took a drive to Mcdonalds for a moment to take a break, came back and still my phone was spinning gears.
So i got to the point where after 6 hours of trying to fix it myself...I decided to make a thread here asking for help.
What do you know?
As I am typing my thread to ask for help and complain lol....the 920 just UNBRICKS itself. It literally begins working. I hadn't touched it or anything. I literally did nothing to it.
So this has been a crappy morning and day...I went through a moment of confusion, to anger, to wanting throw up a bit, to almost pulling out my old Galaxy S3 and popping my sim card in the phone and putting the Lumia 920 away for Good.
Nokia REALLY needs to fix this because I never had this issue with any phone bricking itself after a factory reset. Suppose I wanted to sell this phone to someone and it bricked when i reset it?
So anyway I am about to resync all my stuff to my phone...YAY.
Please tell me though....
What does ""This package installation could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid Windows Installer Package."
and how do i get around this to install Nokia Care Suite in case this happens again and I need to unbrick it....
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