What to use in place of nRFgo Studio?

[awneil]

In an earlier thread,

Daniel Wang said:

nrfgo studio is kinda deprecated, 2 years since it was updated or something, so that's the reason it's pulling an old version. nRF connect for desktop is the cool kid now: www.nordicsemi.com/.../nRF-Connect-for-desktop

But  the latest nRF5 SDK (v15.0.0) - in  "Compiling and running a first example"  -  specifically directs to use nRFgo Studio!

If a SoftDevice has been installed on the board or if you are not sure, use nRFgo Studio to make sure that you erase the whole board. Select your device in the Device Manager pane. Then click the Erase All button.

And this functionality is not available in nRF Connect.

So: what should I be using for this in place of nRFgo ?

Also, nRFgo doesn't seem to recognise nRF52810 - presumably because it's too old.

[Hung Bui]

Hi, 

 

We are in the process of replacing nRFGo Studio with nRFConnect. A new app should appear in the list of nRFConnect app to handle flashing. However it's not ready yet. For now to see the layout of flash, which softdevice on the board etc you would need to use nRFConnect. But as you already noticed it's not up to date. 

 

Note that the best way of doing flash or reading memory is to use nrfjprog.exe command line tool. nRFGo Studio running on top of nrfjprog.exe. 

nrfjprog.exe is getting update frequently and can be used with the latest chip. 

[awneil]

awneil said:

Daniel Wang said:

nrfgo studio is kinda deprecated, 2 years since

So this was 2 years ago now - and yet the issue still arises:

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/59357/nrf-gostudio-not-able-to-detect-nrf52840/240979#240979

Isn't it about time that the nRF Go page was clearly marked as "Legacy", with clear instructions to prefer nRF Connect??