Cannot upload a firmware for ESP32-C3 with a flash memory 16MB

[romankiss]

Tool

nanoff

Description

When I tried to flash a firmware for either the ESP32_C3_REV3 or XIAO_ESP32C3 target, the process has been ended with an error E4003:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> nanoff --target ESP32_C3_REV3 --serialport COM17 --update --masserase
.NET nanoFramework Firmware Flasher v2.5.126+716b21797a
Copyright (C) 2019 .NET Foundation and nanoFramework project contributors

Reading details from chip...OK                                                                                    
                        
Connected to:
ESP32-C3 (ESP32-C3 (QFN32) (revision v0.4))
Features WiFi, BLE
Flash size 16MB W25Q128_V from WINBOND_NEX (manufacturer 0x239 device 0x16408)
PSRAM: not available
Crystal 40MHz
MAC 24:EC:4A:E6:56:04

Extracting ESP32_C3_REV3-1.12.4.289.zip...OK

Updating to 1.12.4.289

Erasing flash...OK                                                                                                
            
Flashing firmware...
Error E4003: Failed to write new firmware to ESP32. (
...
esptool write_flash: error: argument <address> <filename>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\rkiss\
\.nanoFramework\\fw_cache\\ESP32_C3_REV3\\partitions_16mb.bin'
)

It looks like, the firmware package ESP32_C3_REV3-1.12.4.289.zip included only images for 2MB and 4MB, so there are missing the images for 8MB and 16MB.

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[romankiss]

@AdrianSoundy please could you look at into this issue? It looks like only the ESP32-C3 targets has this issue:

ESP32_C3_REV3-1.12.4.372.zip included the following files:

but the others targets, for instance, ESP32_S3-1.12.4.372.zip:

Why the ESP32-C3 flash memory is limited for 4MB size?

Thanks