At the heart of the ESP-01 module is the ESP8266 chip with at least two boot modes — the normal mode and the programming/flash mode. The latter refers to uploading any software (or firmware) to the ...

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It turns out that there are different types of flash used with the ESP8266, and the correct programming mode must be selected for a given hardware setup.