I was having some troubles with TI connect, where the calculator would crash a lot of the time while sending/receiving files. I guessed that this was due to Unsigned having messed with the certificate or something similar, so I downloaded that and uninstalled all of the stuff that Unsigned had done. I still was having the issues, so I turned off zStart, and uninstalled the RAM clear stuff. That didn't work, so I decided to send OS 2.55 to my calculator (it had OS 2.43, and before that, 2.55). Once the OS was totally installed, the calculator froze at a screen that said:

Validating...
Operating
System
100%

It stayed like that even after TI connect closed itself, and the calculator wouldn't do anything until I took out a battery. When I turned it on again, it went right to the

Waiting...

Please install
operating
system now.

screen. When I try testing flash, the dots go to about halfway, and then "FLASH FAILED" displays. Is my calculator dead, or is there something I can do to fix it?
This person (https://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14207&start=0) seems to have had the same problem, but doesn't have much of an answer on how they fixed it.
Note: This is a direct copy/paste from my post on omnicalc.
Hold [on]+[del] after you resend the OS.
MateoConLechuga wrote:
Hold [on]+[del] after you resend the OS.

When it's frozen at the "validating" screen? At that point, it doesn't respond to anything. I think I've tried that, but I'll check again, just in case. Also, I just realized that I didn't make this clear in the first post, but any time I try to resend the OS, I get the same frozen validation screen.

Edit: After trying a couple times, I think that if I do the key combination before TI connect's status bar says it's done, the calculator will turn off and go back to the "install OS" screen, and if I do it after, it won't do anything.
OS Validation takes a really long time, you should try to let the calculator do its thing for a while, go make yourself some fried eggs and bacon or something.
mr womp womp wrote:
OS Validation takes a really long time, you should try to let the calculator do its thing for a while, go make yourself some fried eggs and bacon or something.

Wow. Thanks a lot. That was a really simple fix; I probably should have tried it sooner. At any rate, I have a no-longer-dead calculator, so thank you. I think I'll steer clear of zStart, Unsigned, and the like this time around.

Edit: How do I change the thread name? I'd like to add "[Resolved]", but I can't figure out how. Is it a mod-only thing?
Congratulations on getting it fixed!

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