https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/107496/how-can-i-disable-bt_settingsHello, The firmware I&#39;m building does not need to remember any devices it connects to and there is no pairing involved, so I&#39;d like to reclaim the 8kB of flash used to store settings in. However, when I try to add `CONFIG_BT_SETTINGS=n` to prj.confen-USTelligent Community 13Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:19:23 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/464914?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:19:23 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:ed20690b-8371-4661-a2fd-da6d7881d526underpickled<p>Ok, I figured out that I needed to explicitly set</p> <p>CONFIG_BT_LBS=n<br />CONFIG_BT_LBS_SECURITY_ENABLED=n</p> <p>to allow</p> <p>CONFIG_SETTINGS=n<br />CONFIG_BT_SETTINGS=n</p> <p>to be handled properly and drop the settings partition.</p> <p>That technically handles my issue, but I would like to understand why LBS and LBS security were enabled by default somewhere else, and what else might be enabled behind the scenes that could be stripped out?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/464908?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:36:07 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:80229505-4ab4-4937-b4d1-96d20b21d0daunderpickled<p>Does the settings partition still show up in the partition map? It still shows up in my build.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/464863?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:02:56 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:18060f54-ba3b-479f-bea9-2246a72105c5Naeem Maroof<p>Hi,</p> <p>I just applied your prj.conf to a sample (peripheral_hr) along with few other configs (that are shown on the top like BT_BAS and BT_HRS),&nbsp;</p> <p>I can see that BT_Setting is getting n</p> <p><img style="max-height:240px;max-width:320px;" src="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/resized-image/__size/640x480/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/4/pastedimage1705590165873v1.png" alt=" " /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>