ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:17 pm #42959 Hi I am making a project where you first boot into an AP on an ESP8266 1, enter wifi connection credentials and then connect as a client to send post requests to an API.

The first AP I set up cannot be forgotten. I have uploaded my sketch again with a new SSID and pass but everytime the AP will connect using the initial SSID no matter what I do I can not get rid of this SSID.

Another issue is that now it is totally skipping the AP and connecting to a network it has never been given a password for.

I have tried resetting the EEPROM and have read the EEPROM back and all is empty yet it will not stop connecting to a network that it has never had a password for, once connected I can't access to IP address it is assigned as obviously it has the wrong password.

Can anyone offer any information on how to reset and wipe any settings that are stored on the ESP8266 1 please.

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- Sat Mar 12, 2016 4:20 pm #42963 Bit of update EEPROM is totally empty yet the ESP8266 is still connecting to a network somehow is there anywhere else that may have stored connection info?

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- Sat Mar 12, 2016 4:51 pm #42965 It is not the emulated EEPROM that needs to be empty, but a different region of the Flash, depending of your Flash size.
0x7E000 for the 512K, 0xFE000 for 1MB, 0x3FE000 for the 4MB.

- Sat Mar 12, 2016 5:12 pm #42966 Thank for the quick reply. I had a feeling about that please could you link me to the right docs to accomplish this have been searching for a day now but not found the right docs. I have 512 I believe and am using Arduino IDE via Foca USB

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