I am congratulating myself for really bricking my favourite router. 
I cannot remember what I exactly did to get to this point but am currently unable to
use my OpenWRT One.
I attempted to recover it by using the following instructions -
Continuing the discussion from BPI-OpenWrt One NAND Image Replacement:
Currently the USB flash is plugged in and the ACT light is flashing. I do not get
the light behaviour as shown in the video.
The one detail that I have noticed is that port 22 (SSH) is active and presents a login prompt,
however, it will not take any passwords that I have previously set. Also, it is able to provide
an address from DHCP.
Any advice is appreciate.
Lou