Yesterday i tried to generate new firmware bin from nodemcu-build.com and after flashing with esptool.py, my esp started blinking (blue diode on esp chip) and sending out (t
same problem and resolved with Marcel solution, but please take care about flash options: -fm dio -fs 32m
i was trying without, so only appending the esp_init_data_default.bin, but it doesn't work.
you can check it because esptool shows, just before stating flash, an hexadecimal value Flash params set to 0x0000 (wrong) Flash params set to 0x0240 (fine!)