https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/51271/pausing-rtc-when-device-goes-to-sleep-wfeI&#39;m looking into using the RTC on the nRF52840 as a Watchdog timer. The reasons being the increased flexibility that this would provide for saving context information prior to reboot and also to shave power consumption by a few &#181;A. The issue is thaten-USTelligent Community 13Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:42:57 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/205666?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:42:57 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:2c4935c5-9125-4708-9177-8a163a487167Stian R&#248;ed Hafskjold<p>Hi, you can stop and start the RTC with the TASKS_STOP and TASKS_START registers: <a href="https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.nrf52832.ps.v1.1/rtc.html?cp=3_1_0_24_9#topic">https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.nrf52832.ps.v1.1/rtc.html?cp=3_1_0_24_9#topic</a></p> <p>You can try to add the STOP before WFE and START right after.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>