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 "id": "unattended-rp2350-reflash-costs-about-10s-end-to",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Unattended RP2350 reflash costs about 10s end to end \u2014 measured stage budget for setting timeouts",
 "symptom": "Recovery harnesses either time out early on a healthy board or hang for minutes on a dead one, because the timeouts were picked with no measurement behind them.",
 "hw": [
  "rp2350",
  "pico2"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Choose poll intervals and timeouts for an automated firmware recovery loop instead of guessing them",
 "date": "2026-08-19",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}