Windows phone stuck on gears screen

Then press the volume and power keys in the following order: volume up, volume down, power, and volume down. Step 6. Wait for your phone to reset, during the reset you will see gears rotating on the screen for up to 5 minutes, after which the screen goes blank for 30 seconds and then your phone will restart. I found that Microsoft shows the spinning wheels to indicate they are updating or downloading data onto your cellphone which takes excessive time-found this to be my situation and now it's back to normal.

One more Tip--leave the cellphone on and the process will complete and bring your cellphone back to operating status. Bryan James Briones. It also does this after being frozen. I don't understand why it does this and its been only doing it for about 2 or 3 weeks and I've had the phone for about a year now. Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Back Answers Index. Zadan Ly Rep: 6 5. When i turn on the phone, all I see is a spinning gear. Phone will not go into normal start up.

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Viewed 35k times. I'm stuck, what should I do? Also my phone's power button doesn't work so I can't hard reset it. Improve this question. If yes help me, I have the same problem with nokia Lumia — abhimanyuaryan. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Then click "My device does not boot up" Now connect the phone that has been stuck at spinning gears via USB cable make sure its fully charged and click continue.

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This solves my problem — Isham Mohamed. Abimanyu Ramesh Abimanyu Ramesh 41 1 1 bronze badge. Note : You need an active internet connection on your PC. Download and install the Windows device recovery tool from here. Launch the device recovery tool. Remove all USB device. If possible switch off your phone. If not it is okay. Connect you phone via USB.

Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Was this comment helpful? Technical Level : Basic Summary This wiki article walks you through the procedure needed if your phone should get stuck showing spinning gears while performing a factory reset on your Nokia Lumia.

If the gears should keep spinning for more than 30 minutes again, you should perform a hard reset using the key method. To do this press and hold the power-, volume-down- and camera buttons until the phone vibrates. Then release the power -button and keep the other two buttons pressed for another five seconds.

If the above solution does not fix your problem, Nokia has released a tool called Lumia Software Recovery Tool. Using the tool, you can recover your phone if you have software update problems, your phone is not responding, appears to be stuck or isn't starting. If this is too complex or you just can't get it to work, contact your local service center. How satisfied are you with this article? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

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