Phone failed during flash. Now won't power on

[pickettd]

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone may have come across this situation and found a fix. I was restoring my lumia 1520 with the windows device recovery tool back to version 8.1. After the phone had gone into the flashing mode with the red screen and progress bar, the device recovery tool stopped and I got an error in the log: Flashing failed with error 0x00040010.

I hard reset the phone with the volume down + power button. Now the phone will not turn on at all. No backlight on the screen and no vibration to confirm it is on. The battery was on 90% before it failed.

I have also tried volume down + plug in charger + power and still nothing. I am think that maybe if I open the phone and physically disconnect the battery, this could clear anything that is stopping it.

Any suggestions anyone. Am I missing any other button combinations? I think I tried nearly every type of combo.

 

[pickettd]

Update: I have removed the battery and reconnected it. Still no response when resetting with volumedown + power or volumedown then charge plug.

I have a feeling that the flashing that did not complete has damaged the motherboard :crying:

 

[NickInLA]

Update: I have removed the battery and reconnected it. Still no response when resetting with volumedown + power or volumedown then charge plug.

I have a feeling that the flashing that did not complete has damaged the motherboard :crying:

I googled your issue and came with this. I'm no expert in Windows phone but you can read to see if this helps your case.

Recovery for Lumia 635 failed, Devie recoganized as QHSUSB_BULK - Microsoft Community

 

[pickettd]

I googled your issue and came with this. I'm no expert in Windows phone but you can read to see if this helps your case.

Thanks for this. I have not actually tried the method that resolved this persons issue. I will find a Windows 7 PC and see if the device drivers are found. Fingers crossed! I am using Windows 10.

 

[pickettd]

Thanks for this. I have not actually tried connecting on a Windows 7 PC. Hopefully this will work. I am on Windows 10.

 

[pickettd]

So after some playing around, it turns out on Windows 7 it recognised the phone as a USB device. The device manager would still not recognise the phone however I manually flashed the phone with thor2.exe.

In CMD I inputted the following:
thor2.exe -mode uefiflash -ffufile "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Packages\Products\rm-914\RM914_3058.50000.1425.0007_RETAIL_apac_philippines_338_07_441237_prd_signed.ffu" replacing the italicized text with your own ffu filename

Once complete the screen changed from red to green and am now very happy.