Hej,
on trying to update firmware on nrf52832 over the air I'm getting the error message INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES.
Actually I don't understand the error message because if I generate the bootloader settings page for the firmware image and flash both hex files separately (the firmware and the bl settings page) everything works as expected. For our customers I wan't this firmware image to be updated using DFU OTA so I generate a zip file with nrfutil:
nrfutil pkg generate --hw-version 52 --application-version 1 --application myfirmware.hex --sd-req 0x8c --key-file ../keys/private.pem update_file.zip
I need to say that since our last update we added a ton of features and a huge binary blob of about 60 kB so that the resulting image has a size of 348 kB. Regarding the nrf52 memory layout the firmware image starts at 0x1f000. The bootloader starts at address 0x78000. So from my understanding the firmware exactly fits into the space between 0x1f000 and 0x78000. Correct me if I'm wrong. Do I miss something? Are there any restrictions regarding file size and DFU OTA update?
Best regards
Christian Haake
Hi,
You are correct that the flash requirement of SoftDevice s132 version 3.0.0 (which is the one you use for generating the DFU zip with --sd-req 0x8c) is 124 kB (0x1F000 bytes). That means the application starts at 0x1F000.
--sd-req 0x8c
You are also correct that the bootloader (usually) starts at 0x78000.
There are mainly two things that might reduce what size is possible for an application over DFU:
Regards,Terje
Thanks. I had the exact same issue and I had forgotten to include the 3 pages of application data in my code size calculation. After decreasing the code size, DFU works.
Hi tesc,
2. I think this is not the case here since the application size forces a single bank update.
1. What if my application neither uses the application data region nor the peer manager? I mean 12kB (3 pages) is a lot of space one could use for "useful" things like e.g. code.
On a quick look I found
#define DFU_APP_DATA_RESERVED CODE_PAGE_SIZE*3
Is this the line I would need to patch for the bootloader to flash from APP_IMAGE_START_ADDR to UICR_BOOTLOADER_START_ADDR? Can I somehow circumvent the bootloader from preserving this memory (without patching the bootloader code)?
Hi Terje,
I am having this same issue. I compiled my code with GCC and -Og and -g3 set, so the code is quite big (709kB). However, it flashes with the bootloader and softdevice without any problems using nRFgo Studio and nrfjprog. It is only when I try to do a DFU that it fails with the "INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES" error. Why would this happen?
EDIT: Nevermind. I found this thread that pointed out not to merge the settings hex with the application hex when creating a DFU package and only to do it when flashing the original application file. I generated a new package without merging with the settings hex and the error went away.