Old topic, but it shows up on Google so I'll update it with an answer. Be advised that for OTA, you'll need TWO ota partitions as per the documentation: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/api-reference/system/ota.html The reason is that once you flash an OTA app to ota_0 - w...

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Problem solved. If using the ESP32 C3 - be sure to not have either pullup or capacitor on the BOOT pin (GPIO09). Desoldering the capacitor on that pin made all boards work without error.

I have a startup problem with a custom board with an ESP32 C3 Mini 1 module. There are several threads with similar topics here, but they don't solve the problem. This is how the problem manifests itself: If the board has not been powered for a long while, it'll go straight to dowload mode: Build:Fe...

Thanks! That's good advice that I'll use!

Hi all, I'm making my 8th ESP32-S3 based board and I was completely stumped by a problem I've never seen. The ESP-S3-WROOM-1 based board programs, but it's not running any code and it's not outputting anything on Serial. After a lot of troubleshooting, I hooked up a serial dongle to the Serial outpu...

Thanks! Got it running as well.

@plasmaphase I'd also love to know if MCLK was the answer