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A week or so ago, I heard the Denim update was finally released for my Lumia 820 product code. OTA update was not finding anything (I was still on Cyan), so I thought I'd try my luck with the WPRT. So I quickly backed up my phone, attached to the PC and to much joy saw an update was available (possibly Denim?). I left my PC to let the ~1.5GB download complete only to come back later to find that WPRT had 'lost connection' to my phone. Not to worry I thought, I will just attempt the update again. Much to my dismay, I discovered my phone was now completely unresponsive and not even the hard-reset of volume down + power button would bring it back - no lights, black screen, no vibrate. It is currently sitting in a repair center (it was out of warranty so was going to cost $$$ to fix). Warranty or not, I believe the phone should be repaired for free as it was Microsoft's tool that bricked my phone.
Moving on, a few days ago I saw the article here linking to the "Lumia 520/521Devices Unusable After Using Windows Phone Recovery Tool: Please Read" thread on the Microsoft Community site. Reading through the comments, there has been many other people, not just with Lumia 520/521 devices, having issues with this tool. A fair majority claim, like me, the WPRT has bricked their devices. The general consensus is that their phones have entered a 'Nokia Emergency Connectivity' mode and is detected by the PC as a 'QHSUSB_DLOAD' device. In some cases this mode was entered when trying to recover from the red Nokia screen some people have experienced, using the latest 1.2.4 tool.
Have any of you experienced the same issues?
Perhaps it's best to steer clear of these tools until a solution is found?
What are your thoughts?
Cheers.
Moving on, a few days ago I saw the article here linking to the "Lumia 520/521Devices Unusable After Using Windows Phone Recovery Tool: Please Read" thread on the Microsoft Community site. Reading through the comments, there has been many other people, not just with Lumia 520/521 devices, having issues with this tool. A fair majority claim, like me, the WPRT has bricked their devices. The general consensus is that their phones have entered a 'Nokia Emergency Connectivity' mode and is detected by the PC as a 'QHSUSB_DLOAD' device. In some cases this mode was entered when trying to recover from the red Nokia screen some people have experienced, using the latest 1.2.4 tool.
Have any of you experienced the same issues?
Perhaps it's best to steer clear of these tools until a solution is found?
What are your thoughts?
Cheers.