Soft Bricked my Verizon GS3...

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Lifer
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My phone is basically stuck with an error message about unauthorized software, and it tells me to take my phone to a Verizon store. How do I get by this?

I was trying to go from an ICS ROM to completely stock Touchwiz.
 

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Lifer
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That actually is the guide I was trying last night. When I try to go into download mode it shows up for one second then goes to the Verizon error message, and ODIN doesn't see my phone.
 

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Lifer
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Success! Whew, that had me worried for a bit

A few guides I found kept saying to hold Volume UP with power and home, but I found a random forum post that said to hold Volume DOWN and that brought me to a prompt that let me continue to download mode.

Edit: Or not. I got past the error, now it's stuck on the 4G LTE screen...

Edit 2: Fixed, back to stock.
 
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