What does a soft brick look like?

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AC Question

I am an old NEWBIE with a N7 (2012) that belongs to my daughter-in-law. Apparently when installing 5.0.2 (OTA) something went wrong. I believe this because of some logs which I found on the N7.
We have gone through the power reset several times with the same result:
Welcome screen, followed by wifi setup (CONNECTED) followed by web access error.
I have done a lot of research but can't believe half of what I read.
The only bricks that I know anything about are not soft and cannot do anything except act as a paperweight.
Most of the instructions that I read involve enabling usb debugging which has never been done and obviously the bootloader is locked. If I cannot access the systems settings, what can I do?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

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