Cytron wifi

Hello, I am using a Cytron Shield ESP WiFi Rev 2 with an arduino uno. My WiFi shield was working really slow, so I decided to do a firmware update on it using instructions from the Cytron GitHub.

After successfully updating, my shield no longer works. I continuously get a "WiFi shield not present" notification in the serial monitor. I'm trying to deploy this soft AP project

This project ran fine before the update it was just really really slow. All the AT commands in the serial monitor appear to work, but the uno does not communicate with it when trying to run my sketch.