Unsuccessful iOS 10 downgrade - bricked iphone 5c

When I hard reset while it’s plugged in, it prompts itunes to give the error “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes”, but doesn’t display anything on the phone. Hard reset when not plugged in displays nothing.

Doesn’t look like too many people have this problem looking online and on stackoverflow. One person fixed it by changing the cable, didn’t work for me. I also tried to restore on another mac. I’ll keep researching.