I'm returning the phone for a warranty claim and I have the endless spinning gears. Does this mean that my personal data is deleted off the device? I've been trying to fix it just to be sure but nothing has worked.
no most certainly not. I have had to face the same spinning gears for about 2 hours which is when i lost patience and took the steps as suggested in ths forum to turn the phone on. Since i did the hard reset it cleaned all data on my mobile. If you have done a hard reset to reach spinning gears then you signed up for loosing data so it might not be there