Photon won't respond, D7 dim blue

This essentially shorted the GPIO pin to round.

Can you try pressing on the SETUP button before powering it on and see it you can get it into DFU mode (blinking yellow)? Otherwise, something like a StlinkV2 JTAG programmer is required to try to reflash firmware.

You might be able to reflash with another Photon if you have a spare one on hand.