[ldkstar]

I think I bricked my phone. I downloaded blackran1 and ran it in vista the phone go to recovery mode then itunes opened and it just sort of froze. Whats worse is now my computer doesn't recognize the phone anymore it says unknown usb device, what happened? help

Thank you

Edit: the phone's screen seems to be stuck on recovery mode i cant turn it off no matter how long i hold either button

nevermind finally managed to get it to turn off, had to hold down all buttons,but it turned off and came back on and vista recognizes again.whew close one

[vsellers]

Right, it's actually both buttons held down roughly 7 seconds to get the reboot... Glad you figured it out, though! Just remember, doing anything other than what Apple intended you to do could potentially harm the phone..

That being said, these are just software changes that 99.99% of the time can be fixed by simply rebooting and fully restoring to a fresh .ipsw...

I know personally I'm not the least worried about physical harm to my device.