this is especially puzzling to me as I can successfully burn and run other apps, such as the downloadable Core2FactoryTest or draw_by_touch for example, without any issue.
am I missing something here ?
thanks a grand for your help.

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  Start Burn
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  --chip esp32 --port COM5 --baud 1500000 --before default_reset write_flash -z --flash_mode dio --flash_freq 80m --flash_size detect 0x7ff000 C:\Users\vpennel\Downloads\M5Burner\packages\fw\other\wifi.bin 0x1000 C:\Users\vpennel\Downloads\M5Burner\packages\fw\core\UIFlow_Core2-v1.7.1-core2.bin
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  esptool.py v2.5.0
  Serial port COM5
  Connecting...
  Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
  Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse
  MAC: b8:f0:09:c5:b1:34
  Uploading stub...
  Running stub...
  Stub running...
  Changing baud rate to 1500000
  Changed.
  Configuring flash size...
  Auto-detected Flash size: 16MB
  Compressed 100 bytes to 24...
  Writing at 0x007ff000... (100 %)
  Wrote 100 bytes (24 compressed) at 0x007ff000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 267.3 kbit/s)...
  Hash of data verified.
  Compressed 8376320 bytes to 3457107...
  Writing at 0x00001000... (0 %)
  [...]
  Writing at 0x0034d000... (100 %)
  Wrote 8376320 bytes (3457107 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 55.2 seconds (effective 1213.3 kbit/s)...
  Hash of data verified.
  Leaving...
  Hard resetting via RTS pin...
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  Burn Successfully
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