whoa nellie -I understand you are frustrated, but strung all together like that, its really hard to figure out what exactly you are doing here.

You got a flat - you are trying to pump up the flat tube to see where the hole is right? If there is a hole and the hole is large it can be difficult to impossible to get the tube to hold enough air to do that - its not that your pump doesn't work or that you are doing any thing wrong. Try your pump out on a new tube - its unlikely you will break it and you will get to see how your pump works.