So the CH340 worked like a breeze, flashed in one go and the SSID came up in a minute. So it was the FTDI issue for me. this is the one I bought and works for me: http://www.ebay.in/itm/111921959292?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Thanks everyone for all the great help !

Got the headers, using the same FTDI adapter tried to re-flash the sonoff basic with the custom firmware: here is the output I get with putty when I rebooted it and powered it with the FTDI, it keeps looping: ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,6) wdt reset load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16 ta...

Well, to be honest when I bought the FTDI adapter only to flash the sonoff after reading the process in blogs how to do the same, no one cautioned about the fake FTDI adapters, I bought into them thinking they were genuine. Even after the guidance provided here, and selecting to buy 10x the price of...

My windows 10 is always up to date and so should be the driver. Avoiding FTDI alltogether, I ordered couple of CH340G, let me try them once I get the shipment.

This is the FTDI chip i have been using: http://www.ebay.com/itm/FT232RL-3-3V-5-5V-FTDI-USB-to-TTL-Serial-Adapter-Module-for-Arduino-Mini-Port-/222418337628?hash=item33c92a7f5c:g:h9gAAOSwMNxXUxko By the looks of it, it seems we both were using same FTDI asapters, I bought it from: http://www.ebay.i...

Does this seems to be original FTDI chip ? :

http://in.element14.com/ftdi/um232h/mod ... dp/1870926

I can order one and try with this, if its the original version of what we are using now.

I've the same exact memory chips on mine.

Can you post the link and price from where you are getting those memory chips from ?

Its actually good to see I'm not alone with this issue. And I know that holding the pins can have issues, but it does not seem like in my case, I took extra care to hold them in place, however will try with the headers when I get the shipment. I too feel that the issue is something which their fresh...

thanks guys, I'll try with header pins & report back, will get them in 3-4 days.

^ I was just trying with holding the jumpers in the holes, good idea, will do it in a proper way, did not had headers with me, ordered some.

Hmm, strange. This always worked for me. How are you powering the sonoff for flashing? When flashing I'm powering using the FTDI, then reboot using main power (after removing FTDI). First: Which memsize did you choose? If i remember right, the sonoff basic has 1 MB so you should use the 1024-binary...

Flashing that bin is giving me errors, do I need to change any param in the cmd? D:\NodeMCU_ESP8266\Sonoff\ESPEasy flasher>esptool.exe -vv -cd nodemcu -cb 115200 -cp COM6 -ca 0x00000 -cf ESPEasy_R0_1024.bin esptool v0.4.6 - (c) 2014 Ch. Klippel <ck@atelier-klippel.de> setting board to nodemcu settin...

Thanks for the reply. I tried flashing the R120 and R100 bin before with same results. Tried flashing R147 as you suggested, still same result. Waited 15 mins for the SSID to appear. Here is the flash log: D:\NodeMCU_ESP8266\Sonoff\stock ESPeasy 147>esptool.exe -vv -cd nodemcu -cb 115200 -cp COM6 -c...

I'm not an expert with this, but do have some coding background. I bought few sonoff basic and couple of sonoffTH 16 directly from ITEAD, got delivery last week, and since then I tried to flash espeasy bin to 3 generics and 1 TH16 (v2), it flashes but after reboot there is no SSID, no LEDs, nor does...