[andylifestyle]

I had to switch Microsoft accounts so I did a phone reset. 5 hours later, the phone was still stuck in the infinite cogwheel animation screen. I tried to restore the device using nokia care suite and in the process, the update aborted itself. Now I'm stuck with a bricked phone where I can't even power the device on.

Here's what I've tried:
- pressing and holding the power+volume-down buttons for extended periods of time (with and without AC)
- pressing and holding the power+volume-down+camera buttons for extended periods of time (with and without AC)
- plugging it into the computer doesn't do anything
- tried letting it charge for 5 hours -- no effect

I'm out of options. Any idea as to what I should do?

[WPmunkey]

No options? You tellin me you missed the sticky "fix for bricked 920s"???

[andylifestyle]

^ tried them all. no luck

edit: that requires being able to hold the volume down + power button and make the phone vibrate, which I can't even do

[Fleon]

I have the same problem. Nokia and MS really need to get a better QA department. After putting my rep on the line by recommending WP8 to a number of friends based on my WP7 experience, I'm really not thrilled with how absolutely badly the last 2 months have been with this phone.

[Mohamad Mardini]

Same thing happened to me..
During a software update a failed message appeared with no error number and the phone doesn't start up or respond to anything, including USB.

Can anyone help.

[FutureBSD]

Same thing happened to me as well. Try to figure out if there are ways to get it back but I doubt.
Damn bad timing as I was about to send it to Nokia to get it checked for bad battery life.
If they figure out it has a broken software update (to portico) I'm sure I know what they'll say. :)