How do I get out of a bootloop after failed OTA update?

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Stuck in bootloop after failed OTA update

Last night I accidently accepted an OTA update, Im not even sure which one because this is my backup phone that I activated last week when my main phone got a little wet.

The phone is a galaxy s4, rooted but stock other than that.

When I woke up this morning it was still in a boot loop starting, going into updating, and then saying update failed, restarting over and over.

I cant access any recovey, but I can get it into downlad mode. Ive installed Odin on my laptop and was going to try to downlod the stock firmware, think I am having trouble getting Odin to recognize the phone. Should I just follow directions for back to stock, or is it toast?
 

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