After "bricking" the ECU you need to disconnect all power from ECU by pulling fuses for it or disconnecting the battery altogether. It seems that 45s-1min is required for the ECU to properly reset
this way it succeeded to recover by OBD?
Do you have experiences also with other ECUs than ME7s?
Whenever my flash fails, it fails a lot since I have a temperamental car (allroad), and my ECU stops responding regardless of what I do, disconnecting all power from it for about 1min does the trick.