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- Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:47 pm #10557 Maybe you had interruption in your power or com connections and it started reboot during upload.
I would thus guess that then maybe because you have error in your init.lua which runs on boot it re boots.

I am in same position, continuous boot loop, bricked I guess, but for different reason
I was trying to use the GPIO's and wrote test script thus

file.remove("init.lua")
file.open("init.lua","w")
file.writeline([[pin = 12]])
file.writeline([[gpio.mode(pin,gpio.OUTPUT)]])
file.writeline([[gpio.write(pin,gpio.LOW)]])
file.close()

It tuns out that causes a reset.
There is no break or time between boots to send command to remove the init file using ESPLorer.
Best order a few ......
I must say this is still a fantastic bit of kit.
From boot takes about 3 seconds to retrieve a web page, that is including time to connect to wi-fi
No computer or mobile phone I know can do that, that fast!

- Mon Feb 23, 2015 6:51 pm #10564 You can reflash the firmware when you get in this state to erase the file system and recover the module.

- Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:46 pm #10568 If the text file contains characters not understood by the interpreter strange things happen(invalid register state), this is usually a result of copy and paste as this can take "hidden" formatting and paste it into a script.

As in the previous post ground GPIO_0 and re-flash a firmware file from a github and any module can be "un-bricked".