Correction to my last post (which hopefully gets approved before this one so it makes sense). UART does it fact work, but I still can't upload an new (empty) sketch, even when I try putting it into download mode(I also removed the C6 cap). Below is a picture of what the ESP spews out before it start...

That's the thing, UART does not work. I've used it before to program other microcontrollers and I know that the FTDI chip works, but for some reason the ESP32 isn't responding or sending any data. Sometimes when I have it connected via USB, I am lucky and the arduino IDE shows the startup message wi...

This is the part where I start to doubt myself sometimes. I've included a screenshot of my reset and boot select switch. I also used this on the ESP32-C3 board that I made earlier and it worked there, although of course with a different boot select pin. What I am currently doing to get into download...

Hi there, I recently finished my second custom ESP32 board, this time based on the S3. Everything worked fine, however today I accidentally configured the USB data negative pin (GPIO19) as an output pin. In this case it permanently tries to put the pin high. I'm measuring a voltage of around 1V, I s...