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Suddenly my phone restarted and flash and gear icon appeared. Tried restarting with power button and volume down keys but phone restarts and shows same screen again.

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Model: Lumia 720

My OS is Windows Phone 8. Thank you

Edit Letting the phone to completely drain the battery, charging it, turning it on and selecting the Reset your phone option solved my problem.

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You will probably have to hard reset your phone using the Windows Devices Recovery Tool.

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  • This would not work, my phone would not show up when connected to PC.
    – rluks
    Jan 12, 2017 at 14:02
  • Have you tried a soft-reset while the phone is connected to the PC and the WDRT is running?
    – Thomas
    Jan 12, 2017 at 14:22
  • No, I have did things mentioned in Edit which solved my problem. Thanks for a suggestion.
    – rluks
    Jan 12, 2017 at 19:33
  • please add this as a separate answer and accept it
    – Thomas
    Jan 12, 2017 at 20:03

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