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My phone has been jail broken for a while now and today I was experiencing some unusual problems so I shut down my phone. I did this by holding down the power button until the shut down slider appeared, I slid the slider and my phone began to shut down. But it is currently stuck with a spinning wheel (the OS white spinning wheel) in the center of a black background. I have tried everything I can think of to snap it back. I have plugged it into a power outlet, I have also tried plugging it into my laptop with iTunes open, and I get a error that the iphone could not be connected due to an unknown error. I greatly appreciate ANY help.

Thank you so much in advance!

EDIT:
I'm an IDIOT... in my panic I forgot the most basic of functions... holding the power and the home button simultaneously shut the phone down quite effectively. Now I am just waiting for the dang thing to restart (taking a long time).

EDIT:
Ok fully restarted. I am leaving this up just in case anyone else gets the cold sweats thinking that their phone is broken