4 hours and Security Wipe still continuing in Q5

I set my phone on security wipe and its been 4 hours and its still not finished. I removed the media card...
Need urgent help. Hard reboot is alos not working
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Hello noorenayat
Relax, let the wipe process finish and connect it to the wall charger. There's wipe with more than 12 hours. It depends on data size.
Also your phone number listed in your profile. It's not recommended as this is open forums and spammer may send junk messages to your phone. Edit it from My Setting at top left of this page and change to your carrier name.
Good luck.
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