https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/17206/nrf51822-advertising-stops-after-1-weekI am using the 8.1.1 version of the SDK on a Rigado BMD-200 device, s110 version of SoftDevice. The code has set APP_ADV_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS to the maximum (all bits set). We have observed that a device left advertising for about a week stops advertisingen-USTelligent Community 13Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:13:59 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/66103?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:13:59 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:360cddd2-8470-4982-aa97-93478f145eabRob L<p>ok.. thanks I will try that... I suppose the original developer put a huge number (which correlates to over 113 years, assuming it is as good as &quot;forever&quot; :)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/66105?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:13:31 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:3c8219b5-3948-473c-bf8b-9b9f805420caDan Danknick<p>If Dave&#39;s solution doesn&#39;t work you can always just call ble_advertising_start(BLE_ADV_MODE_SLOW); from the BLE_ADV_EVT_IDLE event in your advertising event handler and queue up another week.</p> <p>Dan</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/66104?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:44:56 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:fc47aab3-f9ee-4afb-9ec5-e8c9b4d5a042Dave_couling<p>If you want advertising to continue without stopping, set the timeout = 0.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/66102?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:14:17 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:48e01a47-66c3-4759-842e-b7ca9d7326faRob L<p>correction... the code is using 8.1.1 of the SDK, so it is compatible.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/66101?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:04:44 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:99cf0ad7-72e4-4183-977e-5df7be511ed9Wojtek<p>why are you using SD that is incompatible with SDK? have you modified it? check <a href="http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.nrf51/dita/nrf51/compatibility_matrix/nRF51422_nRF51822_ic_rev_sdk_sd_comp_matrix.html?cp=3_0_4">this</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>