Skip to content

ESP32S3 4M Port missing. Partition table in Firmware in file is wrong #17567

Description

@mispacek

Port, board and/or hardware

esp32

MicroPython version

I have a problem on 4M variant of ESP32S3 (ESP32S3 Super Mini)

4M variant of firmware working good, without any problems.

But 4M firmware download is missing now on Micropython firmware download page.

I try to flash "universal" firmware v1.25.0 (2025-04-15)

and now my Filesystem not working.

MPY: soft reboot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "_boot.py", line 11, in
File "inisetup.py", line 38, in setup
File "inisetup.py", line 7, in check_bootsec
OSError: (-24579, 'ESP_ERR_FLASH_NOT_INITIALISED')
MicroPython v1.25.0 on 2025-04-15; Generic ESP32S3 module with ESP32S3

I try to compare 4M firmware and new firmware, and partition table at adress 0x8000 in flash memory is different.
Partition table in new firmware is for 6MB filesystem.

Please bring back the 4M variant of Micropython

Reproduction

Download new image from Micropython website for ESP32S3
https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/ESP32_GENERIC_S3-20250415-v1.25.0.bin

Upload it to 4M variant of ESP32S3 and open REPL

Expected behaviour

I expected working filesystem, but vfs partition is broken now.

Observed behaviour

Flashing back to 4M Variant firmware helps... but for other people 4M build is missing now on download page

Additional Information

No, I've provided everything above.

Code of Conduct

Yes, I agree

Activity

  1. dpgeorge commented on Jun 26, 2025

    @dpgeorge
    Member

    The v1.25.0 firmware will not work on 4MB modules.

    You will need to use latest preview build firmware. Please try eg this one: https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/ESP32_GENERIC_S3-20250626-v1.26.0-preview.277.g4bd99260d.bin

  2. added
    needs-infoThis issue needs more information to be resolvable
    on Jun 1, 2026
  3. agatti commented on Jun 7, 2026

    @agatti
    Contributor

    Isn't this addressed by 2a0e2b5?

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    bugneeds-infoThis issue needs more information to be resolvableport-esp32

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions