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I've had similar experiences to what's been reported here. FWIW I find the BOOT button is really difficult to hold down and I have to prop the board hard against a surface to be sure my finger is holding the button down. I've found the BOOT button only works when connecting the USB, pressing BOOT+RE...

I've had exactly this problem with Weimos/Lolin D1 mini clones and the same flashing softwares. However uPyCraft (https://dfrobot.gitbooks.io/upycraft/content/) was able to successfully flash and get me a REPL - which also worked with Putty. No idea what's going on, go figure. uPyCraft looks like a ...