[Captivate Android Development] Corkscrewed:
Bricked AFTER Everything Flashed Fine??

HELP! I'm having a strange and very alarming problem.

So I followed the instructions to a T and successfully flashed to this ROM. Everything worked great. Set up my Google account to sync, then set up my work email account to sync as well. Played around for a bit and really liked the snappiness and the general interface.

So then I open up Titanium Backup to restore my apps and app info. Right off the bat, it gives me a message that says my default phone settings disable installation of apps not obtained through the market, so I went into the settings to allow that. Then I noticed that TiBu was not really doing anything, so after stopping the application, then restarting, then still having no success getting the restore to happen, I decided to reboot my phone (normally, NOT into recovery).

Here's where it gets weird.

So the phone reboots. I see the regular B&W Samsung Galaxy S screen. The then Icy Glitch Kernal v14 screen. Then the black and white and blue Samsung Galaxy S Ice Cream Sandwich boot screen of the ROM, in that order. Only instead of eventually booting up and going to the regular screen, it just stays there. Forever. I take my battery out and restart my phone a couple of times, but each time, it does the same thing.

I try to Volume Up+Down + Power Buttom to reboot in recovery mode. It won't reboot into recovery mode. No combination of pressing and letting go at certain times into the bootup screen allows me to get into recovery. Except for one instance (on my second try), when I selected another regular reboot, thinking that the first freeze might have been a mistake.

At some point, on maybe the fifth "frozen on the Ice Cream Sandwich" startup screen, I do the Volume Up+Down + Power Buttom to reboot but just keep the buttons held on for a long time, to see if it does anything different. Well, now it won't even get into the Ice Cream Sandwich startup screen. It just goes from the B&W Samsung Galaxy S screen to the Icy Glitch Kernal v14 screen, quickly blinks to black, then goes back to the Icy Glitch Kernal v14 screen for about 10 seconds, then goes to black, then goes to the B&W Samsung Galaxy S screen.

So basically, my phone is currently stuck in an endless loop and very much feels like it's bricked (I've never actually bricked my phone before, so to be honest and ignorant, I don't know what a bricked phone is specifically supposed to look like).

I *can* get into Download mode, but I'm not sure how this helps me. What strikes me as odd is that this flashed completely fine. It's only when I tried to reboot my phone normally that all these issues started happening. And I would just reinstall the ROM if I could get into Recovery, but I can't do that either.

Hope someone can save my phone! :(

Two other notes:

- I have a Mac, so going into download mode with Odin won't work, since Odin is PC only

- If I turn my phone off completely (removing the battery), the plug in my phone charger, it will go into an endless loop of showing my battery bar (but with no green), trying to calculate how much battery I have and how I'm charging, then going black and restarting this loop.