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Root Bricked G900V while trying to root

I'm following this tutorial and suddenly everything went wrong. I followed the "Prepare your phone for root" steps, which worked fine, and I ran the root.bat and followed the steps with flashing NK2_kernel.tar from Odin3. Then it got hung on the Samsung screen, as expected. I rebooted to bootloader, and had no idea how to get KROOT.apk onto the phone to install. I took the battery out before unplugging, and immediately realized I was supposed to do it the other way around. Now my phone is hard bricked; it won't boot in any way - no recovery, no bootloader, no normal boot. It won't show up in Windows Explorer, Odin3, or root.bat. Is there any way to fix this?
 

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