NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:00:06 GMT

Thank you very much now i am able bring my dongle back to working

Once again thank you very much for your support

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:58:12 GMT

Hi,

By VOUT, you mean VDD OUT, right (see image)?

This is where you should apply the supply voltage.

What did you mean by "and getting some mV from VOUT ..initially it was giving 1.8 v .."?

As I understand you already had debugging working with the nRF52840 DK before this issue, and the connection to the debugger should remain exactly the same (like you listed, including GND detect).

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:49:08 GMT

Ya i have given external power supply to VOUT. swdio and swdclk from nrf52840 dk

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:39:53 GMT

Hi,

Did you cut SB2 and solder SB1?

What do you mean by "getting some mV from VOUT"? After this modification, you need to supply the dongle at the VDD OUT connection point via an external supply. Did you do that?

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:53:35 GMT

After doing the above procedure the dongle is not detected and getting some mV from VOUT ..initially it was giving 1.8 v ..

connections

3v3 ------------------ VOUT

SWDIO ------------- SWDIO

SWDCLK ----------- SWDCLK

GND ---------------- GND

Thanks and Regards

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:36:42 GMT

Thank you for your responce
I will try this one

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Einar Thorsrud — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:44:11 GMT

Hi,

As mentioned, it seems you have erased the UICR of the chip (as part of the full chip erase). Therefore, the board chip has a too low VDD voltage to be debugged from a DK. The procedure is described in detail in the last part of the nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial.

You have two options. Either use a professional debugger with a level shifter or modify the dongle HW to use a higher supply voltage. If the first is out of the question, then you need to:

modify the dongle as explained in detail under External regulated source.
Power the dongle from an external regulator that is about 3 V
Now program the device via a debugger (for instance the DK can be used now). Make sure that the hew firmware properly configures REG0. (see nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial for details).

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:31:06 GMT

I have refered nRF Connect for Desktop Programmer and while flashing the bootloader its shows error as --IDcode not found check target interface ..i am using nrf commandline tool for flashing bootloader.
Can you please explain in detail procedure

Thanks and regards

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:53:59 GMT

Ah, I see. I read your question too quickly. Then the problem is clear. You have erased the entier flash of the nRF52840 dongle, including the UICR, which holds the configuration for regulator 0. The default configuration (which is now used) is 1.8 V, and that is too low to be programmed from the nRF52840 DK. To recover you either need to use a debugger with a level shifter, or do some HW modifications to the dongle. This is described in the past part of the nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial.

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Saagar — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:24:56 GMT

I am using nrf52840 dk to program nrf52840 dongle and i have programmed the blinky application and it was running sucessfully and after that to erase the board i have selected recover option in nrfgo studio and after that it stopped working

RE: NRF52840 dongle is not working after selecting recover option in NRFgo studio

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:18:32 GMT

Hi,

nRFgo Studio is not compatible with the nRF52840 dongle. However, it should be able to cause any problems either, since nRFgo Studio needs a debugger. Can you double-check that you are using a nRF52840 dongle and not a nRF51 dongle? Or that you are using nRFgo Studio and not nRF Connect for Dekstop?

If you are using a nRF52840 dongle, then please try to program it again from nRF Connect for Desktop Programmer. You may need to press the sideways reset button to get it into USB DFU mode, which is required in order to be able to program it. You will then see a red pulsating LED indicating that it is in DFU mode.