HELPPP!! CANT GET THROUGH RECOVERY MODE.

Hi guys,
My phone suddenly rebooted itself and never came to life again. I tried to reboot but it went till the “samsung logo” and never go beyond that.
i tried to factory reset through recovery but was denied to do so. I remember ticking “deny program control” on the Anti theft section.
i even tried to reflash the firmware using Odin but failed. Does by ticking “deny program control” prevent me from hard resetting the phone???

please help!!!

Galaxy s3
i9300
rooted.

this is for sure not related to avast. avast does not run at this point in time!

Nope… But Ive read that S3 has some serious issues with the phones dying…

Only in JB (as far as I know)