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Help 2 day old Captivate Freezing up.

I have a Samsung Captivate and was able to sim unlock nd then root everything was running great, but because i wanted to change the rom and get rid of the AT&T bloatware I decided to install SRE rom from this site but first i had to install rom manager from the market, & install Clockwork Mod which i did so far so good. I go ahead watch the video follow it step by step except i didn't wipe data then install rom. So i decided to kinda start over i booted into recovery wiped data then attempted to install SRE rom again and that's when all hell broke loose phone freezing up on the home screen, not completing its boot process, rebooting by itself, i tried removing Sim card, Microsd, but still not allowing me to reboot into recovery with the key combo or ne other way for that matter. I then tried odin one click to reinstall factory everything but no luck. Sorry for the long story just trying to put it all out there. O yeah i'm a newb incase you couldn't tell. I don't have insurance to try to return to at&t. Thank you in advance for any and all help you may provide.

one_cam_vtec said:
I have a Samsung Captivate and was able to sim unlock nd then root everything was running great, but because i wanted to change the rom and get rid of the AT&T bloatware I decided to install SRE rom from this site but first i had to install rom manager from the market, & install Clockwork Mod which i did so far so good. I go ahead watch the video follow it step by step except i didn't wipe data then install rom. So i decided to kinda start over i booted into recovery wiped data then attempted to install SRE rom again and that's when all hell broke loose phone freezing up on the home screen, not completing its boot process, rebooting by itself, i tried removing Sim card, Microsd, but still not allowing me to reboot into recovery with the key combo or ne other way for that matter. I then tried odin one click to reinstall factory everything but no luck. Sorry for the long story just trying to put it all out there. O yeah i'm a newb incase you couldn't tell. I don't have insurance to try to return to at&t. Thank you in advance for any and all help you may provide.
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try getting your phone into download mode. If you can do that then use odin to flash everything to stock.

Are you able to get adb to access the phone? You can access recovery from there with the following command:
Code:
adb reboot recovery
Also, are you getting into download mode when trying Odin 1-click? I've found a pretty fool-proof method pull battery/SIM/SD, putting the battery in, holding down the two volume buttons and then plugging in the USB. Works every time for me, and is easier than it sounds.
I was stuck on a boot loop the other night and that process got me into download mode so I could flash with Odin and then restore my backup.
Worst comes to worst, just bring it to AT&T and say it randomly did that. If it's only two days old, and you're under contract (didn't buy it outright) you don't need insurance. I don't even think insurance is available for this phone.

take out the battery, plug in the usb, put the battery back in, hold both volume buttons down, then hold the power button down... the grey/green battery icon will flash to a black screen, as soon as it flashes to the black screen the second time, let the power button go, and download mode should be there.

@rrrrrramos i do not have a contract with them. I obtained this phone through a friend that does have insurance for the handset. Since my computer does not recognize it i am not able to adb.
@magnumrt62 & rrrrramos I have tried these button, usb combos and nothing. I appreciate all the responses i will con't to try and seek psychiatric help...lol.
How would i know i am in dl mode? All it does when i let go of the power button after the second blk screen is nothing but show green battery nd con't to charge then goes to black screen. Computer doesn't recognize it.

Are you using the SRE with voodoo in it, if so that is not playing nice with ROM Manager, it is a known issue that Clockwork Mod dosen't recognize ext4. Sounds like that may be the issue. read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784170
It sound like that is the problem.

I am unable to mount/unmount the internal/external sd cards because the phone freezes and does not allow for this. The few times i was able to get odin to recognize phone com3 i hit masterclear left it alone and 6hrs later it had done nothing. I can't even get into recovery mode. I am about to see if this beautiful phone will fly then bounce... O how a grown man wants to cry over his phone... LMAO... Can ne 1 close to orlando, kissimme, poincianna help a fellow Captivate lover out i got beer money, gas money, i'll drive too you. hell i'll even cook a new york strip or two.. HELP ME PLEASE..

To do master clear your have to be in usb debug mode and at the home screen. Fire up odin then plug the phone in odin will see the phone and then hit master clear. It will then wipe the phone
Sent from my Samsung Captivate w/Voodoo using XDA App

Thats where the phone freezes up at on the home screen and just stays stuck there. The last time I was able to get into the phone i switched on usb debugging but still nothing. I just booted up the phone and heard the sweet bing sound but still doesn't show up.. I really appreciate every1 taking time out to try to help me.. Just wanted to put that out there..

So am i one of the unfortunate souls to have "BRICKED" his phone. I will not give up yet.. As long as i see the sweet "S" i will not give up..

I don't think you bricked it. Something is going on with your drivers, if the computer won't recognize it. Obviously your phone has been able to boot into recovery before if you had ClockworkMod on it. Did you get into Recovery using the key combo?

I have not been able to get into recovery using any key combo. Right know i am actually in Android System Recovery by using adb reboot recovery and a lil luck and speed. It is recognized by odin3 0:[com3] but it will not do any thing. I clicked master clear and it states master clear started but that was 53 minutes ago.

You need to use the odin from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989 as it is made to specifically use with the captivate. It also includes the jf6 kernael which is critical. I used method 3 for the I-9000 because SRE 1.3 put that kernel on the phone and screwed it up big time, it has different hardware assignments. When you put the battery in, hold volume up and down and plug in the usb, no sim, no external sd when doing this. No other version of odin worded for me, just this one. You can't do a master clear until you are fully booted, I don't care what anyone says, it will never work, besides, you don't need to. You need to hit the "Start" button in odin when it show that you're connected. It will reflash you phone with the proper rom and kernel.
Don't download anything else from there but the odin file, you have the drivers already and don't need the other kernels (what got you here to begin with ). just that version of odin that already has what you need.
Good luck man!

one_cam_vtec said:
I have not been able to get into recovery using any key combo. Right know i am actually in Android System Recovery by using adb reboot recovery and a lil luck and speed. It is recognized by odin3 0:[com3] but it will not do any thing. I clicked master clear and it states master clear started but that was 53 minutes ago.
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It's great that you can get into recovery mode through adb because that means you can get into download mode: adb reboot download. Then you can flash back to stock with odin.

Also forget about recovery. That's not going to help you right now. You need to be in download mode to use Odin

I'm going to give that a shot when i get home. Why didn't I think about adb reboot download wow guess you can tell i'm a real NEWB.. Thanks i'll let u know how it works out for me..

one_cam_vtec said:
I have not been able to get into recovery using any key combo. Right know i am actually in Android System Recovery by using adb reboot recovery and a lil luck and speed. It is recognized by odin3 0:[com3] but it will not do any thing. I clicked master clear and it states master clear started but that was 53 minutes ago.
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What is it that you don't understand. Master clear only works when you are at the home screen. You can't evoke it from download mode or recovery. You have to have your phone recognized by odin when you are at your home screen and then you can hit master clear. That is the only way that it will work.
It sounds like adb works so when you are at the home screen and you envoke adb reboot recovery it reboots the phone into recovery correct. If that is working then there should be no reason master clear won't work then. Boot the phone up normally and then run odin 1 click then plug the phone in if odin recognizes the phone then hit master clear and see what it does. It should work.

@ Everyone who suggested things for me to try THANK YOU. I finally got it with the adb reboot download. Didn't know i could do that. @Sparker366 I would envoke adb b4 it got to the home screen as soon as odin recognized it i would envoke commands, because the phone would freeze on me on the home screen Just didn't know about the "download" command. Thanks again every1...

HELP!!!

Hi Guys.
I was turning on my captivate, and now when I turn it on, it does the AT&T screen, and Galaxy s Screen, and just gets stuck there, and then goes blank.
Help, please,

MantaZumanity said:
Hi Guys.
I was turning on my captivate, and now when I turn it on, it does the AT&T screen, and Galaxy s Screen, and just gets stuck there, and then goes blank.
Help, please,
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Probably not a development question.
What did you do to make it do that?

I was trying to flash a rom, and it was taking long and not working,
So I stooped it, and tried turning it back on, and now it won't work.

MantaZumanity said:
I was trying to flash a rom, and it was taking long and not working,
So I stooped it, and tried turning it back on, and now it won't work.
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Use ODIN3 to reflash. And you should post problems in the ROM's thread, not start a new one. And do a lot more reading...

Sounds like a bad flash. Down load the Odin one click JF6 and falsh back to stock. Once the phone boots up, put into USB debugging mode, master clear, root and install CWM. From there just install the ROM you like by following the instructions of the Dev. Hope this helps!

That's the thing, the phone wont boot! It goes to the Galaxy s logo, then goes blank.

MantaZumanity said:
That's the thing, the phone wont boot! It goes to the Galaxy s logo, then goes blank.
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You don't get the S screen when you enter download mode. Do you even know how to enter recovery mode or download mode?

MantaZumanity said:
Hi Guys.
I was turning on my captivate, and now when I turn it on, it does the AT&T screen, and Galaxy s Screen, and just gets stuck there, and then goes blank.
Help, please,
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FYI-If a flash is taking a long time it usually means it is installing a LagFix option. Dont ever stop an install before it is complete. This will cause the phone to become inoperable until you Odin back to stock.

So, will you guys show me what to do?
I'm sorry I'm such a noob.

MantaZumanity said:
So, will you guys show me what to do?
I'm sorry I'm such a noob.
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Have you read anything about how to flash a rom, or how to use ODIN3, or anything else for that matter?

I know how to use Odin3,
I just don't know how to use it now since my phone is is stuck.
Will someone tell me what to do?

MantaZumanity said:
I know how to use Odin3,
I just don't know how to use it now since my phone is is stuck.
Will someone tell me what to do?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Instructions on how to enter download mode and use ODIN3 are in that thread.

kegobeer said:
Use ODIN3 to reflash. And you should post problems in the ROM's thread, not start a new one. And do a lot more reading...
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Do this
1) GO to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989 . Download I897UCJF6 - Odin3 One-Click Downloader:
http://www.thevod.org/misc/captivate...l-OCD-REV0.rar
2) Shutdown phone. Remove SIM and External SD Card.
3) Run the exe you just downloaded by Right clicking and then selecting "Run as administrator".
4) Put the phone in download mode. See instructions below
Remove the battery, sim card, sdcard if you have one
Insert the battery
Hold both Volume buttons (from i9000 just down, don't touch the power button)
Plug in the USB cable and continue holding both Volume buttons
5) Confirm that the phone is indeed in Download mode. You should see Yellow Triangle
6) Click Start
7) Wait for it to complete. You are now back to stock ROM.
Extra: Flashing to stock ROM will disable your ability to go to recovery/download mode using button combo. Please apply 3 button lagfix

MantaZumanity said:
I know how to use Odin3,
I just don't know how to use it now since my phone is is stuck.
Will someone tell me what to do?
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Put your phone back in the box, take it back to AT&T and get an iphail.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

cappysw10 said:
Put your phone back in the box, take it back to AT&T and get an iphail.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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LOL! That made my day!

It's flashing back to stock rom, thanks you guys!
I just won't flash a custom rom.

cnewsgrp said:
Extra: Flashing to stock ROM will disable your ability to go to recovery/download mode using button combo. Please apply 3 button lagfix
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What are you talking about? This is massively incorrect. You only lose your 3 buttons ability to enter recovery or download mode depending on your particular phone. i have always had it working, have flashed back to stock countless times, and have never either lost my 3 buttons ability or needed the "3 button fix".
Look under your battery. There is a # on the sticker, i believe beneath the serial #. It is 100x.
1006=fine, no probs.
1007=iffy, some good and some bad.
1008=3button fix REQUIRED almost every time......

techmik67 said:
What are you talking about? This is massively incorrect. You only lose your 3 buttons ability to enter recovery or download mode depending on your particular phone. i have always had it working, have flashed back to stock countless times, and have never either lost my 3 buttons ability or needed the "3 button fix".
Look under your battery. There is a # on the sticker, i believe beneath the serial #. It is 100x.
1006=fine, no probs.
1007=iffy, some good and some bad.
1008=3button fix REQUIRED almost every time......
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I have 1008. I lose 3 button combo everytime I flash to stock. Anyway there is no harm in reapplying it so why not recommend it? I don't want the OP to lose the ability.

techmik67 said:
What are you talking about? This is massively incorrect. You only lose your 3 buttons ability to enter recovery or download mode depending on your particular phone. i have always had it working, have flashed back to stock countless times, and have never either lost my 3 buttons ability or needed the "3 button fix".
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Although you are correct that the one-click doesn't kill the button combos on all phones, it does on most batch 1008 phones and maybe all newer phones. It's a good idea to point people to the flasher that you know won't disable the combos, particularly when the person you are trying to help is pretty clueless about how all this stuff works.

cappysw10 said:
Put your phone back in the box, take it back to AT&T and get an iphail.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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+1. if you cant take on the responsibility of reading and basic comprehension, you deserve an iphone. let steve tell you how to use your phone.

[Q] Green Screen Of Death

Anyone Experience this?
Phone was on stock firmware from AT&T (never been rooted)
Plugged Phone Into the computer & opened Odin3Excution v1.00 & booted the phone into Download Mode and clicked Start on Odin. looked back at the phone minutes later and the phone had a full green screen. waited & waited and neither the phone or Odin were making progress. pulled the phone off the USB pulled the battery. restarted the computer and tried again. Now the phone will not boot at all not even the at&t smart phone screen and it wont boot into recovery or download mode.
The phone is being processed through warranty, I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this or knows what happened. Thanks!
BTW the phone was charged 100% and the sim & sd card werent in the device.

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Can a Admin move this to the question section. Sorry for posting in Dev.

Very interesting. Never heard of this. Pull the battery out and wait lets say 1h
Then plug the battery back and hold both volume buttons while inserting the USB. Dont touch the power button.

icezar1 said:
Very interesting. Never heard of this. Pull the battery out and wait lets say 1h
Then plug the battery back and hold both volume buttons while inserting the USB. Dont touch the power button.
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Will do. Thanks. Any One else?

jdubdieslo said:
Will do. Thanks. Any One else?
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You can try not waiting at all at first. Just pull it out, put it it and follow what I said earlier.

i had a green screen in the middle of a flash back to stock with ODIN one click (every usb device stopped working on my machine at once)
fired it back up in download mode and odin'd it...no problem

Yep.. Mine too, two times, except that the screens was Light Blue and Yellow..

Moved to Q&A.

Lol funniest thing that I read this thread and then thought, wow must be one of the lucky one's cause that never happened. Next thing i know I go to flash back to stock and when i look over it was the green screen. I was like NOOOOO! So now im trying to install the drivers on my bro's comp since my windows partition is being a...well you know. Tried to use heimdall but I don't have the stock bootloader....just the sbl. Can anyone throw me a bone?

tytdfn said:
Lol funniest thing that I read this thread and then thought, wow must be one of the lucky one's cause that never happened. Next thing i know I go to flash back to stock and when i look over it was the green screen. I was like NOOOOO! So now im trying to install the drivers on my bro's comp since my windows partition is being a...well you know. Tried to use heimdall but I don't have the stock bootloader....just the sbl. Can anyone throw me a bone?
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Advice, if you don't wanna risk it, find a win machine and use odin one click downloader

Sorry to resurrect and old thread, but it was either this or start a new thread for the same problem.
I was flashing back to stock from Mosaic and this happened. Green screen and nothing else. Now it won't turn on or go back into download mode. Think a jig will help this?.
Edit: Waited about 10 mins and tried again. IT LIVES!!!!

it is worth a try of jig if key combo does not work.

the same thing just happened to me. i was using odin3excution v1.00 to flash back to stock before taking the phone in to AT&T to get the warranty replacement. i got the teal/green/blue screen at factortrfs, it just sat there and killed everything usb on my computer. i pulled the battery and tried to reboot into download/turn it on/plug it in, no response whatsoever. i have the battery pulled and im waiting to try again, but if that does nothing, what can i do? i could take it in and tell them it did this in the middle of the kies update, but is that even believable? any help is appreciated, i don't have a jig and making one is last resort. thanks brothersss

Stuck in a boot loop.... no recovery/download mode

Hey all, just got my Captivate 2 weeks ago and successfully rooted and flashed with custom ROM following the directions on all the posts here. Last night, while attempting to switch from Paragon 3.0 to Phoenix 4.0, installation was aborted. After several unsuccessful recovery attempts through CWM, I finally followed directions and used Odin-one-click. Odin did its thing and phone rebooted immediately and got stuck in a loop.
ATT screen flashes on and off when phone is powered on. When plugged into PC, phone flashes empty battery and computer does not see the phone. I've tried just about every button combination I've come across and about every permutation of button/battery/USB/Odin combination on the PC to no avail.
Is my last resort the USB jig? Or are there other options? Any and all help would be appreciated. And thank you to all of you whose posts I used to get me this far.
Patiently awaiting any assistance......

If you can't get into dl mode a jig will be needed
Have you used odin before?
Do you know your build number

mcord11758 said:
If you can't get into dl mode a jig will be needed
Have you used odin before?
Do you know your build number
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Build number.... inside of the phone I see 1010, REV 0.4
Is that what you were referring to?

Yes and that is what caused your odin problem
Read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
Go to radio shack get a package of 100 k ohm resisters. Three twisted together in a tear drop shape. Touch the ends to the last 2 potions prongs closest to the head set jack. I have done this, it works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889128

Just in case this is how I enter dl mode
Take out sim, ext sd, and bat. In your case leave the bat out for like 10 minutes.
Put bat back in
Hold vol up and down
While holding plug in usb

maxyz said:
Hey all, just got my Captivate 2 weeks ago and successfully rooted and flashed with custom ROM following the directions on all the posts here. Last night, while attempting to switch from Paragon 3.0 to Phoenix 4.0, installation was aborted. After several unsuccessful recovery attempts through CWM, I finally followed directions and used Odin-one-click. Odin did its thing and phone rebooted immediately and got stuck in a loop.
ATT screen flashes on and off when phone is powered on. When plugged into PC, phone flashes empty battery and computer does not see the phone. I've tried just about every button combination I've come across and about every permutation of button/battery/USB/Odin combination on the PC to no avail.
Is my last resort the USB jig? Or are there other options? Any and all help would be appreciated. And thank you to all of you whose posts I used to get me this far.
Patiently awaiting any assistance......
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Not sure if this is how you got into this situation in the first place, but did you disable the lagfix before flashing? If not, it may be what caused this.

mcord11758 said:
Just in case this is how I enter dl mode
Take out sim, ext sd, and bat. In your case leave the bat out for like 10 minutes.
Put bat back in
Hold vol up and down
While holding plug in usb
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Thanks for the quick replies and assistance. The threads above were a revelation, I will try again to get it into download mode before making the jig. Keep your fingers crossed....

Gr8Danes said:
Not sure if this is how you got into this situation in the first place, but did you disable the lagfix before flashing? If not, it may be what caused this.
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Did I disable the lagfix? I believe I did, I at least was cognizant of having to disable the lagfix, but it certainly is a possibility. Thanks for chiming in, appreciate all of it.

Someone please help
So I just tried to root my samsung fascinate 2.3.5 and i did the ODIN stock voodoo T959VKJ1.tar file using the PDA button and now my phone is stuck in boot mode and wont boot up properly. Please give me any steps to at least fix this to the original version.

b.smith1202 said:
So I just tried to root my samsung fascinate 2.3.5 and i did the ODIN stock voodoo T959VKJ1.tar file using the PDA button and now my phone is stuck in boot mode and wont boot up properly. Please give me any steps to at least fix this to the original version.
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This is the captivate section not fascinate.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using xda premium

I broke recovery mode ?

Hi...
Ok.. I was on rogers 2.2 stock, I was trying to follow instructions to install paragon, anyway, it didnt work, my phone was still working great tho.. so i tried flashing stock jh6 with the one click from the wiki here... That worked and I now have a rogers phone with att stuff loading up. anyway, I am trying to complete the instructions for paragon but I can no longer get to recovery mode.
the att logo keeps rebooting if i keep holding down vol up and down, what do I do now ?
Edit : I cant seem to even get to download mode Recovery mode always worked before, download mode was always tricky, but it refuses now

do you have adb installed?? if so run adb reboot recovery in command prompt.
OR
Take out battery, take out sim and SD card. press and hold VOL UP/DOWN. put in battery, press power. release power upon seeing AT&T sign. pray.
Works for me about 99 times outta 100 at this point!
but i prefer adb since its much more fool proof!

distortionist said:
so i tried flashing stock jh6 with the one click from the wiki here...
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<captainhindsight>You should not have flashed JH6.</captainhindsight>
As per the above post, boot the phone, enable debugging and use 'adb reboot recovery'. After you get that sorted, flash the 3 button fix and never flash to stock unless stock firmware is your final destination or your phone is so hosed you have to use download mode to fix it. If you do use odin in the future then use the right one for your phone build so you don't lose your button combos.

opcow said:
<captainhindsight>You should not have flashed JH6.</captainhindsight>
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Nor should you have allowed yourself to be photographed in a compromising position wit Courtney Love...Sorry, couldn't resist.

but I only followed instructions Everyone that asks was getting told to go try and blah blah, well that was what I was doing.
You know now I am really stuck. I did use adb and restored stock and didnt want to mess with my phone anymore, but the at&t logo kept popping up, im with rogers. I found a fix and was following those instructions when odin screwed up, it started flashing then said it failed, it happened to me once before but my combo key was working then.
I dont understand why it stopped, It seemed to be intermittent, a bunch of issues, after flashing that at&t rom.
I wish I could fix it, I am stressing out over it, ill get the stuff for that jig tomorrow and hope that works. This phone is brand new! I am not a modder or hacker, I got stiffed by rogers and samsung with the voice dial over bluetooth issue, they wouldnt take the phone back.
I would love to have the att logo gone, rogers froyo 2.2, and broken bluetooth.. Its better than a paper weight. Please help me ! You know what.. I can live what that logo.. I just want to get my phone operational.
Goodnight, and thanks for your help.

i'm guessing you didn't flash the 3 button fix that opcow suggested before doing anything else?
if you can get into download mode, flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=812434

No I didn't, in its forum it says if you had no problems initially with the 3 buttons, this is not for you. Thats what it said! I was told I shouldnt have done that and should have flashed the 3 button fix after the fact.
I just bought resistors, ill be home later to try and force download mode.
Thanks for your help, I am not as upset as I was yesterday, I was tired.