ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:16 pm #22810 I would like to completely erase the flash on the ESP8266. I am encountering strange problems and am not sure if it is caused by corrupted flash in certain sectors. How can a complete erase of the flash be done? My module is using 4096Mbit flash and DIO flashing.

- Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:45 pm #22811 esptool.py has an option "erase_flash", which will perform a full chip erase.

- Sun Aug 28, 2016 3:43 pm #54013

esptool.py has an option "erase_flash", which will perform a full chip erase.

What's the command?

- Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:50 am #54057

Code: Select allesptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 erase_flash