Issue with connecting to BLE GATT at NRL54L15

Dear Team,

I have recently acquired NRF54L15 Development Board for evaluation and from Day 1 experiencing issues with BLE.

I am running simple Zephyr-based BLE Peripheral test application from NRF Connect SDK samples which advertises simulated Heart Rate and at the same time provides access to a couple of GATT services.The issue I am experiencing is when trying to connect to the device from NRF Connect or LightBlue apps from my iPhone - with both apps the device is extremely sluggish during the connection (in debug mode I figured out it goes through non-stop connect/disconnect loop) and I can only connect and see services in may 1 out of 5 cases after approximately 10-15 seconds waiting for the connection to happen.

Next to me I have my old NRF51 Dev Board running Bluetooth stack exposing several GATT services and it always connects immediately and with 100% reliability.

Can you please help to understand what is the issue and wether I should be considering older Nordic chipset for my new device instead?

I thought it would be a good idea to use the latest chipset with all new features and much better power usage, but I might be mistaking. 

Is this a Zephyr/Softdevice related issue or something is wrong with the chipset itself? 

Thanks

WBR,

Alex 

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