Use pca10028 to flash nRF52832?

[Alessandro]

Hello, I have a pca10028 and I am wondering if I can use it also to flash nrf52 boards.

I quickly tried with rknrfgo on mac to wipe a custom board based on nRF52832 and it doesn't work, what might be the problem?

Thanks!

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

I'm not sure if rknrfgo support nRF52832, but you should be able to erase/flash it using the pca10028 board and nrfjprog, which can be found in the OSX version of nRF5x Command line tools. Here is documentation about how to install it.

Commands to erase:

nrfjprog --family nrf52 --eraseall

and flash the file hex_file.hex:

nrfjprog --family nrf52 --program hex_file.hex –-chiperase

Best regards,

Jørgen

[Alessandro]

Hi Jørgen,

it seems the commands changed a bit, for example now to flash a file I have to type:

 nrfjprog program --device nrf52 -c nrf52832_xxaa.hex

However, this works fine too with the pca10028.