I logged the id.PID from esp_camera_sensor_get(), which returned the expected value for the ov2640 camera. This provided confirmation that the code was successfully seeing the camera as it should. After this, I ordered a second unit and the second one works fine. so just bad hw.

This is my first experience with ESP32/Arduino. I ordered an Aokin ESP32-CAM with ESP32-CAM-MB from amazon. I installed Arduino IDE and selected AI Thinker ESP32 Cam as the board. I opened the CameraWebServer example and modified the WiFi creds. It uploads to the board fine, connects to wifi and res...