GL-S10 Flash Guide

Download the flash tool

You can download the latest flash tool from the official website here.

Connecting device

1. Prepare a USB-TTL tool. Here we take ai-thinker USB-T1(CP2102) as an example. CP2102 driver link(windows)

   

2. The distribution of flashing pins on the GL-S10 PCB is as follows.

3. Connect GL-S10 to a computer via USB-TTL.

   

   There are two kinds of connection ways for flashing GL-S10:

   • Complete connection

     Use usb-ttl to connect all the pins shown above, then directly using the flash_download_tool.

   • Simple connection

     Use sub-ttl to connect TX, Rx, GND, and holding the download button to start the download mode, then using the flash_download_tool.

   Specific steps are shown in the image below.

   

Flash firmware

1. Extract flash_download_tool and execute flash_download_tool.exe.

   

2. Select ESP32 and click OK.

   

3. Flash bin files.

   • A. Multiple bin files

     There are typically four types of bin files, each with a corresponding flash start address. Click here to download the Bootloader, Partition, and OTA bin files.

     For device firmware, please download it from the IoT Firmware Center.

     Type	Bin file	Flash address
     Bootstrap program	bootloader/bootloader.bin	0x00
     Dividing partition table	partition-table.bin	0xa000
     Application upgrade by ota	ota_data_initial.bin	0xb000
     Application firmware	gl-s10-v3_0_3.bin	0x40000

     

   • B. Merge bin files

     The address is 0x0000, as the folowing picture:

     

4. Finally, re-plug the power to make it work.