Trying to flash a ESPRESSIF-ESP32-C3-DevKitM-1 v1.0, the most standard ESP32C3 you can get with WLED. Tried everything, using espressif’s own c3 bootloader and the wled-esp32c3 0.14 beta bin files. Nothing seems to work, I just get an invalid header dump. Any ideas? Thanks!

[image] Help installing WLED on XIAO ESP32C3 Questions Yeah , the way it worked is using below esptool.exe -p COM10 erase_flash esptool.exe -p COM10 write_flash 0x0 C3_bootloader.bin esptool.exe -p COM10 write_flash 0x8000 C3_partitions.bin esptool.exe -p COM10 write_f…

Where are the bootloader and partitions? I can’t find them asides from the c3 mini lolin. Edit: think I found them lying around on the discord, will try the latest wled beta c3 version I found online (14.0.1) HOLY SHIT. it flashed, no errors in logs, and connects to AP after connecting to it with …

Do you know of the firmware bootloader and partition bin files for an esp32s2 wroom?

Try this Discord , if you also compile then those files will be in your pio folder but I did not tested that with s2

To help others: the bootloaders and partitions here flashed at 0x1000 and 0x8000 and the esp32 saola s2 WLED bin flashed at 0x10000 worked for ESP32S2, and the partitions and bootloader and ESP32c3 wled bin flashed at 0x0 for c3 and 0x80000 worked, no holding boot required when erase_flash was calle…

To help document that better post the full commands you used with the bins link , might be in another post as that for S2 . As you said it could help other as testing the new chips involves a lot of trial and error

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