I've got an ESP8266-01 module with an 8 MBit Flash and if I use the bootv1.4 method everything works fine.
But if I use der flash.bin directly and make no use of the bootloader, the module only outputs the standard boot message:
ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:2, boot mode:(3,7)
load 0x40100000, len 1396, room 16
tail 4
chksum 0x89
load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, room 4
tail 4
chksum 0xe8
load 0x3ffe8308, len 540, room 4
tail 8
chksum 0xc0
csum 0xc0
Normally it should then print out the smartconfig data, but it doesn't.
Instead the RX and TX LED's of my FTDI-Controller are both lid up and after a few seconds the board and the board and the Serial Adapter get really hot.
I tried the same thing on a different module with only 4 MBits of flash and everything worked out fine.
Tomorrow I will use a multimeter to meassure the current drawing of the board, which i expect to pretty high.
I hope somebody is able to help me.
Greetings Hendrik
PS: I'm using the espressif SDK v1.3.0