Persistent spinning gears after factory reset. Tri...

Hi, I factory reset my phone today through the settings menu. I was having a minor problem after installing the most recent update last night and decided reluctantly that a hard reset might iron out the problems, though I wasn't looking forward to reinstalling all my apps and re-entering my info. Anyway, the phone is stuck on spinning gears and has been for hours. I see that others were having the same problem so I tried some of the solutions here. I held the volume down and power buttons simultaneously and let the phone restart. I let the power drain out and restarted it by plugging it into a charger as outlined in another post. I held the volume down button and restarted it in the hopes of seeing an exclaimation mark (!), but no joy. I held the volume down, power and camera buttons, let go of power after the phone vibrated and let go of the rest after five seconds and nothing. Can anyone help, please?

This seemed to work for me:
It took quite a few attempts, but persitance paid off. Best of luck.
http://lumia920spinninggears.blogspot.in/2013/07/get-rid-of-spinning-gears-screen-of.html#comment-fo... Monday, July 8, 2013
Get rid of Spinning gears Screen of lumia 920... A Solution that is 100% working
Once my Lumia 920 was messed up with lots of applications and I thought of Reset it from settings menu. When phone restarted, it struck at Spinning Gears screen. I waited for 20 minutes and then i took that to Nokia Care. The Care centre was going to close in evening and they said it takes 30-45 minutes to reboot. I came back, waited for 2 hours but phone was still struck at spinning gears. Battery got drained automatically, i plugged the charger and after some time, spinning gears started again . I waited for 30 minutes again and nothing happened and then I found the solution from Net and that works perfectly.... wolla phone is back to life..Ahhh.
Solution :
( please read the steps first and then perform) :
1. While gears are spinning, Press VOLUME DOWN and POWER BUTTON together, keep pressed till phone goes blank, vibrates and NOKIA appears and then release the buttons.
2. Immediately press following buttons in sequence ONE by ONE i.e. press release..press release :
VOLUME UP
VOLUME DOWN
POWER
VOLUME DOWN
after this, phone will restart or gears will continue to spin or you will feel you are struck at NOKIA...but it wont take more than 5 minutes and your phone will be back to life.
I DID IT and you will also.. Enjoy.
Please share if u find it useful.

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