nRF51 Eddystone Example - Flash download failed

[Jacob Abramow]

Hello all. I am a beginner with nRF and am trying to get the Eddystone example (titled "experimental_ble_app_eddystone" in the examples folder) to work. I have opened the project file in Kiel. When I click "Download" to load the project onto the board, I get the error

Error: Flash Download failed - Could not load file '[Path to my SDK]\nRF5_SDK_12.2.0_f012efa\examples\ble_peripheral \experimental_ble_app_eddystone\pca10028\s130\arm5_no_packs_build\nrf51422_xxac.axf'

I have checked the file path and confirmed there is no nrf51422_xxac.axf file, so how do I solve this error?

[endnode]

You need to have some FW binaries to load to nRF5x. If you want to use pre-compiled binaries from SDK (which would be first logical option for newbie) then you need to compile the project first. Have you done that? Also note that for FW which are using radio and BLE stack you need to load it first (Nordic SDK is using their "Soft Device" stacks). But that's all explained in tutorials so I assume you've noticed that...