I kept thinking of what @
Ohiowoodsman said about the remote was green and realized when I was doing my testing yesterday that if the remote power light is green, it knows it connected the Phantom.
The phantom is stuck in a re-link mode, etc. I should be red solid when powered on with the remote off. When I was testing,
Remote on, phantom on, both green.
Remote off, phantom red solid.
Remote on, phantom off, remote red solid.
Pressing link button on phantom, flashing red.
Crap, now it so obvious, take the top off that sucker, and fix it.
There are some instructions on here on how to do it, but your going to need those two sizes for those screws by the motor.
I was at home yesterday, with very old computer, I spent about 30 mins on that post, when I went to save it I had a script error, I kept waiting, and clicking continue script. Started shutting down all programs slowly, didn't want to loose that post, kept leaving the computer doing some choirs and would come back, and hit OK on the script errors, took about 30 mins before it took, I was stressed same as you.