Tried installing ShabbyLeaf, phone bicked. HELP PLEASE

[theconsul]

Hey, I need help. my phone wont turn on, wont do anything. plug in the usb cord, it doesnt do anything, i cant charge it. i dont know what to do but its messed up and I need it fixed.

its supposed to say bricked up in the title. i was in a rush and still am. not to mention i am frantically freaking out about my phone. thanks for any help you may be able to provide

 

[anon(335536)]

Can you connect to it via ADB?

 

[theconsul]

I'm completely clueless when it comes to Android phones... Probably a good reason for me to not have done this in the first place, but the idea of the battery life that I was reading about convinced me otherwise. However, I thought I could follow instructions well enough and that was not true apparently. Basically, I backed up my phone with ROM Manager, then downloaded the ShabbyLeaf ROM on my phone and opened it straight into ROM Manager. When I clicked for it to do the automatic back up, the phone shut off and shows no signs of life now. Absolutely nothing.

As far as ADB... if you could please give me step-by-step instructions in how to do that, I would be forever indebted to you. This is the worst scenario possible because I am on my girlfriend's family's plan, as well as being a poor college student, so I'm kind of freaking out that the phone might be dead in the water.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I followed a guide to connect via ADB... let me rehash what I did to see if it was right. I had the Android SDK downloaded which included the ADB file. I extracted them to my desktop then open the command prompt. I typed in "cd "desktop" and hit enter. Then next I typed "adb devices" and it said "list of devices attached" with nothing underneath it.

I am assuming that means that it is not allowing me to connect?

 

[anon(335536)]

How did you back up the phone with ROM manager. This phone is not supported by the CWM ROM manager? Did you install shabby's CWM recovery using odin?

 

[theconsul]

Scratch this whole thread. I am obviously an idiot who didn't know what he was doing. I took the phone into a Sprint place and they said they couldn't fix it after spending 5 hours with it... Couldn't do any diagnostics checks or anything so I must have sufficiently ed up the whole phone doing whatever I did. The tech guy on duty said that he had never seen anything like it.

Thankfully, because he WAS able to determine that the malfunction was not caused by water damage or physical abuse, I am getting a $35 replacement Replenish.

I would still like to install the ShabbyLeaf ROM if possible, but now I am beyond nervous and paranoid this will happen again.