Xbox Accessories on PC bricked my Xbox One controller and I don't have a access to a Xbox...

Hi welcome to the forum,

do you have a friend or relative that own an Xbox one? If so you could try following the solution in this thread to see if that rectifies your controller problem. Here's the link to the thread.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/xbox-one-controller-bricked-after-attempting-an/342bf6d9-49d2-4119-ad38-ba00f5e55be0

I just had exactly the same issue

I finally installed Windows 10 and knew that this was a prerequisite for updating the xbox one controller firmware. Installed the "xbox Accessories" app and attempted to update the firmware.

The update stalled at 0% and waited 10 minutes and hit the back arrow. The xbox accessories app no longer sees my controller...... seems that the app bricked it.

Like the original poster I do not own an xbox one console

Any solutions to this problem?

Could you solve? I have the same problem for the same reason.

I don't have any means of accessing an XBox one, not that I know of at least. Powering off the PC with the controller plugged in and the powering it back up does nothing. Xbox accessories still can't see the controller, and it appears as XBox One Controller
DFU in the device manager...

I was having the same exact problem. Xbox Accessories it told me that I needed to update. When I clicked update, the process failed, and the controller no longer functioned.

Your suggestion to use the Xbox Accessories seems a bit silly as it was using that app that bricked the controller in the first place.

I actually did manage to fix it though! Hopefully this helps people:

The problem seemed to be what USB port I was using. I have a USB hub, and with the controller connected to the hub, Xbox Accessories detected the controller, but attempting to do a firmware update bricked it.

I disabled bluetooth on the PC, unplugged the USB cord from the controller, turned the controller off

Then I plugged the USB (A) into a port directly on the back of my PC.

I plugged the USB (C) side into the controller, which turned it on.

(controller still bricked at this point)

I then opened Xbox Accessories app and did a firmware update.

This time the progress bar started moving, and the update was a success.

The controller is now working as intended.