<div dir="ltr">Recently my 12V battery died, after replacing it the OVMS unit reverted to the factory reset state. Unfortunately it kept crashing in this state with the following:<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Last boot was 101 second(s) ago
Time at boot: 1970-01-01 00:03:16 GMT This is reset #3 since last power cycle
Detected boot reason: EarlyCrash (12/12) Reset reason: Exception/panic (4)
Crash counters: 3 total, 3 early Last crash: LoadProhibited exception on core 1
Registers: PC : 0x4008c341 PS : 0x00060030 A0 : 0x8013cc48 A1 : 0x3ffe63d0 A2 :
0x00000000 A3 : 0xfffffffc A4 : 0x000000ff A5 : 0x0000ff00 A6 : 0x00ff0000 A7 :
0xff000000 A8 : 0x00000000 A9 : 0x00000008 A10 : 0x3ffeba1d A11 : 0x3f417d87
A12 : 0x3ffeba25 A13 : 0x3ffe684c A14 : 0x47006c6c A15 : 0x47006c6c SAR :
0x00000010 EXCCAUSE: 0x0000001c EXCVADDR: 0x00000000 LBEG : 0x4008c341 LEND :
0x4008c351 LCOUNT : 0xffffffff Current task on core 0: wifi, 1176 stack bytes
free Current task on core 1: OVMS NetMan, 6420 stack bytes free Backtrace:
0x4008c341 0x4013cc45 0x4013ffbe 0x4013fff5 0x4011439b 0x40184ee2 0x4018526b
0x40185ac8 0x40189829 0x401311ed 0x40132221 0x401311ed 0x40131597 0x4013168a
0x40132ff1 0x40133272 0x4012f432 0x4012330f 0x401233bd Version:
3.3.003-423-g68d9aee8/ota_0/main (build idf v3.3.4-849-g6e214dc33 Apr 19 2023
00:11:25) Hardware: OVMS WIFI BLE BT cores=2 rev=ESP32/1 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hardware: OVMS WIFI BLE BT cores=2 rev=ESP32/1 Firmware:
3.3.003-423-g68d9aee8/ota_0/main (build idf v3.3.4-849-g6e214dc33 Apr 19 2023
00:11:25) Running partition: ota_0 Boot partition: ota_0 Factory image: 3.2.002
OTA_O image: 3.3.003-423-g68d9aee8 OTA_1 image: 3.3.003-419-gfbbf3c0d</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Removing the SD card </span><span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:"Cascadia Mono";font-size:13.3333px">and trying a S2 reset </span><span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:"Cascadia Mono";font-size:10pt">made no difference, so I proceeded to run the following commands to factory reset and boot from the factory firmware:</span></p><pre style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)">esptool.py --chip esp32 --port COM3 --baud 921600 erase_region 0xC10000 0x100000</span></pre><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">



</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)">esptool.py --chip esp32 --port COM3
--baud 921600 erase_region 0xd000 0x2000</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Both ran successfully however the unit is now no longer providing the factory wifi access point. What should I try next to restore it?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Cheers Derek</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cascadia Mono";color:rgb(0,34,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p></div></div>