920 seems bricked

anthonyronning0

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The other week, I tried to boot up my 920 that I haven't used in 2 months, because my mom wanted it. Well, I put it on the charger and tried to turn it on. I believe that the charger cable was nonfunctional and I was trying to turn it on anyways, not being aware. It was showing that it was a dead battery for awhile, but after 10 minutes when I tried to turn it on (again, with a nonfunctional cable that I didn't realize), it stopped responding. I tried a different cable and tried to charge it for the entire day. I know this time the charging cable was fine because I tested it out on my 1520.

So it stopped turning on or responding at all, not even vibrating, so I forgot about it. Today, I tried plugging it up to my computer and my pc makes the "unplugging sound" over and over again, within 2 seconds of each other, however no "plugging sound." Again, the phone doesn't respond whatsoever and I can't find any device in my device manager that might be the phone. I tried the official unbricking method in this forum but no luck, it wouldn't register me plugging in the phone. I haven't tried the original, unofficial method from that post, because I didn't do the "reset" as specified in the post, and figured the official would work, if anything. However, if I get no luck on a response, I'll try that later tonight.

I did hear of a thing where you can actually drain the battery so much that it becomes nonresponsive, so I'm thinking that's the issue? Not sure what to do here. Worried about that happening to my 1520 now.
 
Okay, so here is what you should do, use the original cable and charger provided with the 920, those cables are data+power while most cheap ones just charge slowly, let it charge for 2 hours minimum, if a battery with a ? Mark appears, unplug and try again. If that fails, try the Lumia Software Recovery Tool and press the My phone doesn't respond option(or something similar), again use a good cable, not some cheap ones. Oh and it deletes all data Hope that helps.
 
Well look at that. I charged it with the same cable for another 2 hours and it worked. Thanks a lot! So odd or never worked the first time.
 

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