How to recover stock firmware on the Galaxy Note 3 How do I restore stock firmware.  I have firmware upgrade encountered an issue.  Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.  I am using KIES 3 because I have a Samsung Note 3 N900A and it won't connect.
Restart your phone in ODIN mode by pressing Volume Down + Home + Power
Register and download your stock firmware from sammobile.com
Unzip the downloaded firmware
Download ODIN from xda-developers
Don't uninstall Kies as you'll need the driver
Open ODIN and connect your phone to computer (Phone should be in ODIN mode)
When your phone is detected it will be listed under comX
Under PDA select the extracted firmware you downloaded (Select the file with .tar.md5)
Only the checkbox for PDA, Auto reboot and F. Reset time should be checked
Click start to start your flashing
Your phone should reboot with stock firmware


Note: You'll lose all the offline content from your phone