[bazookajoe]

Oh and it's also pretty important to note that EDL mode will actually look like a freeze/brick. Is that maybe causing some of the issue here? I just did it then to remember what it looks like: no light on the power button, screen displays (with no light) whatever the screen was when I gave the adb reboot edl command.

So you're quite possibly not frozen at all, but actually in edl mode/ready to do Zadig step/whatever the OP instructions say.

Don't get hung up on what Zadig says in relation to your adb device number. It doesn't matter.

Also you're not using edl.exe in adb. Once you've booted into edl mode via adb, open a different Command window entirely to avoid confusion. Navigate to the folder where you've put edl.exe and the loader file Renate is talking about. They have to be in the same folder. That's what I'm alluding to with cd.. (to go back a directory) or cd FOLDERNAME to select a directory. Do that until you're in your edl folder. Then you run the edl command section of the steps.