ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:16 am #15104 Hi !

I have some ESP-01 boards and would like to install the latest firmware (1.0.1 Beta).
In the readme there is a note:

*NOTICE*: If you use Esp Flash Download Tool, please MAKE SURE to choose FLASH SIZE to 8Mbit.

But my board always reports it has a 4mbit flash.

So is it possible to install the 1.0.1 firmware on the ESP-01 or not? My first try was a failure ...

Greetings
Dominik

- Mon May 04, 2015 10:11 pm #16515 No one has an answer for this?

Update:
Just got my ESP-12 Board running. And I got the same results:
2nd boot version : 1.2
SPI Speed : 40MHz
SPI Mode : QIO
SPI Flash Size : 4Mbit

So how is it generally possible to flash a 1.0.1 Firmware to the ESP?
I´m confused ..

Dominik

- Mon May 04, 2015 11:57 pm #16520 Doing the following should make it work. Assuming your flash chip is big enough.

Code: Select allesptool.py write_flash --flash_size 8m addr_filename [addr_filename ...]

- Tue May 05, 2015 10:17 am #16574 Look at this link, it's also discussed there:
http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php? ... 0&start=10

In short, you have to install the ESP8266 SDK (esp_iot_sdk_v1.0.1_15_04_24) and compile the provided AT Code yourself by selecting the version without the FOTA-Option.
Otherwise the Flash Size of 4MBit=512KB is not enough as FOTA needs twice the space for downloading the update-files.
I did so and everything works fine. Forget about FOTA, for me it never worked.

How to setup the SDK on a Windows machine, a little tricky but it work s :
http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2
The SDK works on lubuntu, a special linux provided by espressif.
So you first have to install a virtual machine with the lubuntu-vm.
Read the README.pdf from here, that should be enough, there are also all the Files you need for the vm:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

Here's the latest SDK for download:
http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=398

In there is a document folder and there you can find "2A-ESP8266__IOT_SDK_User_Manual__EN_v1.0.1.pdf"
That tell's you how to compile the AT without FOTA.
Give it a try, good luck...