[Q] Hard bricked SM-N900V?

Hi there, my first post. Thank you for all of the great resources and contributions on here. I really appreciate all of this info and enjoy learning more about Android.

I had my 1.5 year old Verizon Note 3 (SM-N900V) that was acting weird so I warrantied and got a new one 2 months ago. It has been working great ever since. I have not rooted the phone or anything, running all stock software, Android 5.1.1. Last Tuesday I pulled my phone out of my pocket after lunchtime (had just spoken to my wife, sent a couple texts, you know the normal stuff maybe 30 minutes before) and it was dead.... I thought it was weird, thought maybe it just turned off o something, battery was about half full the last time I saw it. But nothing, nada, no response from leaving plugged in for a couple hours to charge. No vibrate on power+vol down+home button, not so response no vibrate from power button alone.

I have tried the mje and nc2 unbrick image with Win32Disk imager and am still getting zero response from the phone. Using a 32gb micro sd formatted to exfat. also tried fat 16.

I thought that I read when a phone is hard bricked and you are using the method with the unbrick image file on a micro sd card you will still get a vibrate when holding the buttons down even it the screen doesn't turn on? I am getting no response whatsoever.

I'm def. a newb in terms of my android rooting and flashing ROM's experience, I have only experimented with 2 different phones.

I have a feeling the phone is toast but I'm so confused by how it died... Wondering if maybe they sent me a refurb device when I warrantied it and it was just volatile? I'm also temped to order a new motherboard for it off of ebay but again I don't know enough to determine if it would work or it this is just a crapshoot. I am due for an upgrade but was hoping that I wouldn't have to upgrade for a few more months until the Note 5 drops in price a little, I was even going to just get the Note 4 because it has a microSD slot but it's the same price as the Note 5! I am using my old school Galaxy Nexus for the time being and it's killing me, the thing is a dinosaur!

Any help is appreciated.

SM-N900V Note 3 with Lollipop 5.0, rootable?, need tethering!

I just got this phone used and of course it has been updated. :eek:
So basically if it is anything like the rest of verizon's locked bootloader crap, unrootable. But I haven't followed this phone so I don't know if that is actually the case..

All I really want is unlimited tethering. :good:

Any advice and help is totally appreciated!

Revert SM-N900V from 5.0 to 4.4.2

I've been trying for quite literally hours, following easily a dozen tutorials (all saying the same thing) of using Odin to re-install the 4.4.2 stock firmware onto my phone, BUT only the firmware from sammobile.com. I've tried several different firmwares with nothing but the same result. Phone has been factory reset several times, and cache cleared. The only thing I have not done is ensure my battery is above 70%, but with the 10,000mAh ZeroLemon battery I have in it, a 50% charge is greater than the 70% charge of the 3200mAh, so I figured I was fine. Anyways, here is the output from Odin:

"<ID:0/004> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> N900VVRUCNC4_N900VVZWCNC4_N900VVRUCNC4_HOME.tar.md 5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/004> aboot.mbn
<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth)
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)"

Then on my phone, it says :
"SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot]Fused 4 > Binary 3"

I've also not been able to successfully flash CRASH ROM 1.6, which was my original intention, well, sort of. I had originally planned on rooting Lollipop, found it shouldn't be possible for the Note 3, decided to custom ROM, with no success because root makes it significantly easier, then tried to revert, and here we are.. Hope someone here is able to help. Feel free to message me or reply if you need any more information or have further questions.