This morning, I woke up and saw my Note 2 screen stuck at the boot screen showing Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7100. It will not load pass this screen for no reasons.

I have rooted the phone but it is still using stock ROM. All this was done more than 6 months ago so not sure why it died only today.

I tried to install Kies and do an emergency restore, it will not work.

I tried with Odin 3.07 to install the latest firmware for N7100 for Maxis downloaded from http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-N7100 (the first XME stands for Malaysia) for ROM on 27 March 2013.

I got an error message:
Can't open the serial(COM) port <-- this was fixed by installing the driver that came together with Kies

Then, I got this error:
Complete(Write) operation failed.<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I tried to work around this by changing other USB ports but somehow, my phone just stop booting. Now, it will not even get to the boot screen ,everything is black, no download screen, nothing.

Did it bricked when nothing happen?

I think it was 4.1.1 becauseI never updated it. Yes I read about sudden death syndrome for Note 2. Apparently, there is no way to resolve this besides sending it over to Samsung Service Center.

The Service Center along Federal Highway, anyone knows their business hours?

Yeap, good memory but my husband is not the technical type. Meanwhile, I hang around with a bunch of IT support, so I know more than he does (not by a lot though).