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Help May have bricked my Note 3

I was attempting to root my Samsung Note 3 with the software Kingo. The root process went through fine, supposedly, but now my phone will not turn on. It will vibrate once (tactile vibrate), then show the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 logo with the words "Recovery Booting...." in blue up in the top left corner. Then it will vibrate again, and yellow words will appear below the blue, "Set Warranty Bit: Recovery". Then it shuts off. Wait for 5 seconds, then repeat.
I've tried removing the battery to make it stop, then restarting it, but it does the same thing. I'm not even sure how to do a hard or soft reset of the phone since I can't access any menu. Also, the phone is not recognized on my computer when connected to usb.
Any thoughts/solutions? Thanks
 
Are you able to get to recovery? Try that and do a full wipe and try rebooting. Or if you can get to download mode, use Odin or heimdall to flash back to stock

Personally, I would avoid using Kingo. There are more trusted and established methods available for this device
 
If you can get into recovery (in your case :battery out, wait 30 seconds, back in, and all at the same time in this order volume up (and hold), home key (and hold), then power on and hold, as soon as it displays something release all three keys at once), then your are not totally "bricked" and we can help you get back to a normal working device. Better still, same procedure as above, but volume down instead of up and into download mode. Then you can use Odin to flash your firmware and restore that way.

Let us all know if you can get to these states and we can help further.
 
As dynomot suggested if you pretty much need to boot into download mode and flash the stock firmware via Odin 3.09.

I would also suggest next time to use the Vroot method. :)
 
Had it happen to me as well. Don't root 4.4 with kingo as it doesn't work.

You need to get into odin mode and use the official 4.4 from your phone company. you can find it via google search.

I had to do that and it worked. it's not bricked. don't feel bad. You just have some extra work to do now.
 
Had it happen to me as well. Don't root 4.4 with kingo as it doesn't work.

You need to get into odin mode and use the official 4.4 from your phone company. you can find it via google search.

I had to do that and it worked. it's not bricked. don't feel bad. You just have some extra work to do now.

If you are on 4.4.2 you need to use the Towelroot method, as the Kingo and Vroot method are only for 4.3 :)
 
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