windows phone 8 failed update, sad face appears. How to fix it?

Anonymous
2013-02-12T15:15:17+00:00

I wanted to update my wp8, but it failed, a sad face appeared. I tried to restart, but the sad face appears every time. What can I do????

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Anonymous
2013-02-13T05:18:15+00:00

Try this :D

Turn off the phone, Once the phone is off, Hold the Volume down key then plug the charger (charger should be connected to the power source ",) Once you see the excalmation ( ! ), remove your finger from the button.

Then press the following keys in, Volume Up, Volume Down, Power Key and Volume down. The phone will turn on automatically, this may take several minutes and it will show two gears that are spinning just wait for it to finish.

One more thing all the files on the phone will be deleted but if you have a microsoft account on the phone, check people.live.com to check the contact lists that you have and skydrive for the pictures, that's if you have a microsoft account on the phone.

cheers!

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-16T16:40:58+00:00

    This worked great for me. All the searching and seeing that they were telling me there wasn't anything i could do but trash the phone I finally found a solution. Thanks so much! Phone back up and running.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-13T07:48:05+00:00

    Wait when you have the cog

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-13T03:57:41+00:00

    Hello, I have a Nokia Lumia 521 and when I tried to turn it off all it would do would screenshot, so I took the battery out but then a bolt and a cog appeared I did the hard reset then the a blue screen appeared with a white sad face , I keep pressing down on the volume down key and plugging in the charger but it wouldn't work. Please Help !

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-03-08T11:17:15+00:00

    Tank you very much< those gears appeared on my phone and they are installing the update but i don't know it is going to work. But Tank you.

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