WiPy 2.0 Bricked

[acheesehead]

Re: WiPy 2.0 Firmware update - bricked and recovered

I got this error:

rst:0x10 (RTCWDT_RTC_RESET),boot:0x2b (HSPI_FLASH_BOOT)
flash read err, 1000
Falling back to built-in command interpreter.
OK

Tried to use command line like in the referenced post. I get:

$ python bin/updater.py --port /dev/ttyS30 --file firmware/1.5.0.b2-WiPy.tar.gz
Namespace(file='firmware/1.5.0.b2-WiPy.tar.gz', port='/dev/ttyS30', speed=115200, tar=None)
Connecting...
Exception: Failed to connect to ESP32: Timed out waiting for packet header, on line 128

When I remove the wire from program to gnd and reboot, the previous firmware is still there, so I am stumped for the moment.

[acheesehead]

Ok. So it's not bricked. But, I'm having troubles updating the firmware.