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NRF52 Bootloader hanging

Hi,

I've been using these parts for a few years (the 51) and recently did some work getting the boot loader to be joined together with the application into a single burnable file.

My application is working fine with the SD, and previously I had the boot loader working fine as well but for whatever reason it is now hanging in

sd_softdevice_enable

I've checked on two seperate boards and same problem. If I flash the app + SD it works fine. I use a common .h file between them so the crystal reference is the same.

    // Low frequency clock source to be used by the SoftDevice
#define NRF_CLOCK_LFCLKSRC      {.source        = NRF_CLOCK_LF_SRC_XTAL,            \
.rc_ctiv       = 0,                                \
.rc_temp_ctiv  = 0,                                \
.xtal_accuracy = NRF_CLOCK_LF_XTAL_ACCURACY_20_PPM}

I've spent a day on this so far and am stumped.

I've tried the default boot loaders for the PCA10040 (as I have the latest release parts on my custom boards) and they don't hang but they don't advertise either.

My own code is a duplicate of the boot loader but had a little bit of extra stuff like UART output etc etc. So I adjusted the .ld file to make it a bit bigger and also changed the starting offset in the dfu_types.h (plus the check during startup isn't complaining).

But this all worked fine a few months ago (yes, check the change logs I know but nothing showing).

I know not the most obvious. It's not throwing an error (I build with -DDEBUG and put in an error handler to dump the error code).

The SD is the s132_nrf52_2.0.1_softdevice.hex version.

Basically it never returns from sd_softdevice_enable which would imply some Osc issue (i.e.: we set it to expect an external osc which isn't there.. but this exact same setting when I run my application code works fine)... I have two oscillators on the boards..

I am on SDK 11 recently updated so wondering if something there caused me some grief.. but I had done a merge to check on diffs and nothing exciting.

Any clues? Guesses?

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  • @Chris: Please let me know which chip you have on your board ? nRF52 or nRF51 ? And please read the laser marking on top of the chip. Please let me know what do you mean by "two oscillators on the boards" but "an external osc which isn't there" , I don't get it.

    If you simply test S132 softdevice + default bootloader for nRF52 (PCA10040) what happens ?

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  • @Chris: Please let me know which chip you have on your board ? nRF52 or nRF51 ? And please read the laser marking on top of the chip. Please let me know what do you mean by "two oscillators on the boards" but "an external osc which isn't there" , I don't get it.

    If you simply test S132 softdevice + default bootloader for nRF52 (PCA10040) what happens ?

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