We have 20 pieces of the nRF9160 on a test PCB. We send the commands AT% XRFTEST. With 18 pieces that works very well. With 2 pieces we have the Error:
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<ESC>_[1;31m<err> at_host: Could not send AT command to modem: -8<ESC>_[0m<CR><LF>
We also tried with the command AT% XPRODDONE = 1, to enable the AT% XRFTEST commands; ERROR comes here too.
We use Modem_FW "mfw_nrf9160_1.1.0.zip" and "Device_FW serial_lte_modem"