If you're familiar with our other products and chipsets you may be famliar with our drag-n-drop bootloader, a.k.a UF2. We have a UF2 bootloader for the ESP32-S2, that will let you drag firmware on/off a USB disk drive
However, thanks to the ROM bootloader, you don't have to worry about it if the UF2 bootloader is damaged. You can simply re-load the UF2 bootloader (USB-disk-style) with the ROM bootloader (non-USB-drive)
Step 1. Get into the ROM bootloader and install esptool.py
Step 2. Download the TinyUF2 release for your board
Choose the right release file from the list below. If your board is not explicitly mentioned, find it in the "all boards" link. These links are to .zip files.
Look here if your board is not one of the ones above:
Step 3. Extract the combined.bin file from TinyUF2 release
The file you downloaded in Step 2 is a .zip file. Unzip it and find the combined.bin file. Note that this file is 3MB but that's because the bootloader is near the end of the available flash. It's not actually 3MB of program: mostof the file is empty but it's easier to program if we give you one combined 'swiss cheese' file. Save this file to your desktop or wherever you plan to run esptool from.
Step 4. Option A) Use esptool.py to upload
- Put the board into bootloader mode (hold down BOOT0/DFU and click reset)
- Determine the serial or COM port of the board
Run this command and replace the serial port name with your matching port and the file you just downloaded
esptool.py -p COM88 write_flash 0x0 combined.bin
There might be a bit of a 'wait' when programming, where it doesn't seem like its working. Give it a minute, it has to erase the old flash code which can cause it to seem like its not running.
You'll finally get an output like this:
Click RESET button to launch the bootloader. You'll see a new disk drive on your computer with the name MAGTAGBOOT or similar
Step 4 Option B) Use the Web Serial ESPTool to upload
Another option if you are having trouble getting ESPTool running, is to use the Web Serial ESPTool in this guide. This tool uses Web Serial to erase or upload firmware to your board.
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