Recovering a failed Windows Phone 8.1
This is about one scenario where you may need to go back to the factory installed settings for your phone. There could be many other cases where you may need to restore the original image of the phone's OS. The Windows Phone Recovery Tool did fix the problem. This post is about restoring the phone to the original state. This is about a Nokia Icon, a Verizon specific phone. It had Windows 8.0 when purchased and later a Windows Phone 8.1 preview was installed. When finally Verizon rolled out Windows Phone 8.1, Nokia Icon was upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1. Recently Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows Phone became available. ( http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2015/07/good-news-for-windows-phone-users-and.html ) This post here describes the step-by-step procedure to download and install the preview. http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2015/07/installing-windows-10-technical-preview.html ) However it became apparent that the update/install process did not work even after ...