RE: Getting extremely frustrated with nRF5340 DK so far

Øyvind — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:56:04 GMT

Thanks for providing this information.

With regards to the issues that you are seeing. Have you installed the Apple Silicon or universal version of your VS Code? How did you install the nRF Connect SDK? What we have seen earlier is the mix of an Intel based environment causing the toolchain to be based on Intel. Can you please confirm? Without testing this at the moment, please see steps in this Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/zserk6/how_can_i_tell_if_my_vscode_is_the_apple_silicon/

If you do have this mixed environment, can you please remove the toolchains installed with e.g. Intel based VS Code and reinstall with Apple Silicon or universal based VS Code?

Kind regards,
Øyvind

RE: Getting extremely frustrated with nRF5340 DK so far

anoane — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:33:15 GMT

I stripped out some env PATH unrelated to Nordic

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RE: Getting extremely frustrated with nRF5340 DK so far

Øyvind — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:02:41 GMT

Hello,

Sorry to hear that you are having so many issues with our development kit and SDK toolchain. Now there are a lot of things going on in this ticket, but I would say that some of this boils down to HW issue i.e. board problems.

Can you please provide the output from "generate support information" in VS Code. Either by clicking the "headset" icon, or from command palette: nRF Connect: Generate Support information

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Øyvind

RE: Getting extremely frustrated with nRF5340 DK so far

anoane — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:00:04 GMT

Oh I forgot...

SW PROBLEM 3

I tried to build Matter Lock template (before SW PROBLEM 1 appeared, and not going away), of course flashing with nrfjprog was a no go, but i managed to flash the hex files (for both APPCPU and NETCPU) via J-Link JFlash.app / JFlashLite.app
Then of course debugging is half broken, so Debug without recompiling and flashing and I get a panic at boot time in the TZ app/binary, the main for non-secure world is not even reached.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT CHANGING ANYTHING, literally just trying to compile your template.
Honestly, what is this?
It's totally unusable and useless

And now the IMCU USB seems death, i tried maybe 1000 times, now it stopped showing up, I can only boot with External supply and blinky runs, but I lost the on-board J-Link and VCOM0/2

It's been a nightmare so far