Hello everyone,
as the title suggests, I recently bought an Arduino Nano ESP32 and presoldered it before any testing. I tried applying a 9V battery to it and the power LED turned on so I continued to press on. After completing the solder part, I turned the thing on and went ahead to add the board as a new Device in Arduino Cloud (I use all of the programming tools directly on the web version, and the Arduino Create Agent is up and running properly (checked everything)). It told me there is no device detected and to do the famous following 3 steps, which I followed, but to no avail. Also an independent Windows notification jumps in, saying that the connected device is not recognized and is probably malfunctioning if after trying to reconnecting it it still doesn't work. Now I'm here trying to figure out why this is as it is. Could it be the soldering part? Was I too slow? The solder did turn liquid quite slowly I must admit. As for the connections, I assure you that they're all connected properly and no pins are interconnected. Only the power indicator LED turns on and the cable has been confirmed to be able to successfully upload code before so it's not power-only. Please help, this is my 2nd Nano ESP32 board and I really don't want it to have to be thrown out like the 1st one, which got shorted cause of accidental high voltage application (I'm kinda stupid).
Thanks to whomever might take out their time to read and help ![]()