My Nokia 625 lightning bolt/gears: how do I recover contacts and recover phone?

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nokia 625 lightning bolt/gears: how do I recover contacts and recover phone?

nokia 625 frozen on lightning bolt and cog wheel tried soft restart took sim out tried in daughters phone cant find contacts does this mean they are on my phone and not on sim if so how do I retrieve them and fix phone

 

[Laura Knotek]

re:

Your contacts are stored in whatever account you used as your Microsoft Account when you set up the phone. So if you used myname@outlook.com, you'll find all your contacts if you log in to your myname@outlook.com account using the browser of your choice on your PC.

Please see this link to recover your phone.