What do I need to do to get a sample program in the SDK to advertise?

[brian fleming]

Hello,

I have just purchased the nRF51 Development Kit and I am having extreme difficulty getting any of the sample programs to function.

There are the specifications at this point:

IDE uVision V5.24.2.0

SDK nRF5_SDK_11.0.0

nrf SoftDevice s130_nrf51_2.0.0

Device arm_startup_nrf51.s(startup)

For example, I have loaded the project in this path: examples/ble_peripheral/ble_app_template/pca10028/arm5_no_packs/ble_app_template_s130_pca10028

I can build the project, flash it, and start a debug session and set a breakpoint and see it reach the breakpoint, so I know that the device is working. From looking at the code in the main routine, it should at very least advertise the DEVICE_NAME , however, a scanning app on my Android phone does not see this device.

I have performed various internet searches, and tried everything I could think of and although I have not tried all the example programs, none of the ones I have tried have advertised the DEVICE_NAME.

Your assistance would be very much appreciated.

Sincerely, Brian Fleming

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Also, you can take a look at this page in our infocenter, about programming softdevices.
Cheers.

[brian fleming]

Hello, yes it is advertising because I can see it as an available BLE device on the phone. The website seems to have changed because I can not see where I can indicate that this question has been answered correctly.

[Jay Tyzzer]

I believe if you use the drag and drop to program the device it will do a Erase of the flash which means if the Softdevice was in there it will be gone. One way to fix this is to merge the Softdevice with the application code using Mergehex.exe which can be downloaded with other utilities from the Nordic website.   Then you can use the drag and drop method.

  FYI -- The SDK 11 has the example and the Softdevice merged already...  in the hex subdirectory.

X:......nRF52_SDk_11.0\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_hrs\hex

[brian fleming]

Hello, this support site seems to have changed, and I can not find how to mark this question as answered.