{
 "id": "everything-that-does-not-rescue-a-hung-rp2350",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Eight software ways to rescue a hung RP2350, all of which fail, tested at three privilege levels",
 "symptom": "The board enumerates perfectly as 2e8a:0005, its serial device node exists, dmesg is clean, and it answers nothing. Every recovery suggestion you will find assumes some part of the board's firmware is still running, and none of them say what to do when it is not.",
 "hw": [
  "rp2350",
  "pico2",
  "raspberry-pi-pico-2",
  "usb-hub"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython",
  "picotool",
  "mpremote",
  "uhubctl",
  "udev"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Recover a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 whose MicroPython interpreter has hung, without physical access to the board",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}