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TomNow1 I must be doing something wrong because vol down + power just reboots the phone, it doesn't actually shut it down. So I don't even know when to do the camera button, any ideas? Right now the battery finally drained and i'm waiting for it to charge enough to turn on by itself, I heard that might help it
To clarify, when I ran into the problem of getting the spinning gears for about 2 hours on a hard reset, I did the soft reset with the "Power + Volume down" combination. The phone then rebooted and it went right back to the spinning gears, as I was told to expect. I waited patiently on the spinning gears again, and this time, the phone actually did complete the hard reset process after about 10-15 minutes of spinning gears. Moral of the story, patience was the key in my case, but you may be experiencing a problem unlike mine.