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By Noob1
#86749 hi everyone
so i was programming my esp8266 when i accidentally placed gpios on a conducting surface :o . although i did not see any magic smoke but the leds doesn't light up now.

i can see the ch341 chip and can select the board and ports in arduino but
sketch uploads fails with message

Code: Select allSerial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting........_____....._____....._____....._____....._____....._____.....____Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.6.3/tools/upload.py", line 65, in <module>
    esptool.main(cmdline)
  File "/root/.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.6.3/tools/esptool/esptool.py", line 2890, in main
    esp.connect(args.before)
  File "/root/.arduino15/packages/esp8266/hardware/esp8266/2.6.3/tools/esptool/esptool.py", line 483, in connect
    raise FatalError('Failed to connect to %s: %s' % (self.CHIP_NAME, last_error))
esptool.FatalError: Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header


visually i cannot find something wrong except no led. Image

is it completely fried or i can recover it somehow . any direction would be helpful.