Rock 5B Bricked?

#1

My internal Antenna for my M.2 Wifi module ended up accidentally touching the bottom of the board for about 1 second with it’s aluminum side. It ended up making some noise while powered on and seemingly corrupting the SPI NOR flash. Now it won’t boot. Nothing showing up in serial console and can’t Use Maskrom mode anymore.

I can see both Green and Blue Light indicators at the same time when powered on which leads me to believe U-boot is there but corrupted. Using an SD card with Vendor U-Boot also does nothing. There doesn’t appear to be a guide on unbricking like there is for rock and rock2. Is it bricked for good or is there any chance of recovering it?

Edit:
When I hold down the power button the blue LED turns off. Leaving only the green LED. Pressing it again makes it show up again like normal. However nothing works. The Intensity of the blue LED is seemingly random.

Touched Area:

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#2

Probably You damaged RK806-1 which is power management IC and produces few voltages to power up various components on board. (it’s near Your area on the other side of board)
SPI NOR is probably ok, but may be powerless now as well as UART and others needed to go into maskroom mode.
Post good quality photos of this area as well as RK806 from the other side. Something may be shorted and burned already.

#3

Camera zoom is a bit blurry on edges. I remember hearing a noticeable buzzing sound which was the moment the serial stopped responding and instantly realized the aluminum must have been touching the bottom and quickly moved it away.

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#4

Still to blurry and shady to find something obvious. One element near poe pins look darker but it’s just probably low light. Is it still make buzzing sound when turned on? this may be easiest to locate problem. Otherwise I would check voltages produced by rk806-1