RE: Successful dongle programming, but application not starting

Amanda Hsieh — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:55:00 GMT

Good to hear the problem is solved. 🙂

-Amanda H.

RE: Successful dongle programming, but application not starting

NorbertD — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:13:12 GMT

Turns out Makerdiary's dongle which I use(which is sold as a nRF52840 dongle, resembles your dongle, and behaves in DFU mode like your dongle),is marketed with your SDK. The nRF chip pinout is different. Because why not make a halfway compatible hardware? Adapting the board definitions for pca10059 solves the problem.

RE: Successful dongle programming, but application not starting

NorbertD — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:17:05 GMT

I tried the example under <InstallFolder>\examples\peripheral\blinky.

Here is the log:

2020-03-10T09:04:51.381Z INFO Application data folder: C:\Users\daatn\AppData\Roaming\nrfconnect\pc-nrfconnect-programmer
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG App pc-nrfconnect-programmer v1.3.1 official
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG App path: C:\Users\daatn\.nrfconnect-apps\node_modules\pc-nrfconnect-programmer
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG nRFConnect 3.3.0 is supported by the app (^3.3.0)
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG nRFConnect path: C:\Users\daatn\AppData\Local\Programs\nrfconnect\resources\app.asar
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG HomeDir: C:\Users\daatn
2020-03-10T09:04:51.469Z DEBUG TmpDir: C:\Users\daatn\AppData\Local\Temp
2020-03-10T09:04:51.486Z INFO Using nrfjprog library 10.5.0, pc-nrfjprog-js 1.6.0
2020-03-10T09:05:00.895Z INFO Using USB SDFU protocol to communicate with target
2020-03-10T09:05:00.903Z INFO Protocol Version: 1 found
2020-03-10T09:05:00.905Z INFO Hardware: 52840 found
2020-03-10T09:05:00.907Z INFO Firmware: Bootloader found
2020-03-10T09:05:00.907Z INFO Firmware: Application found
2020-03-10T09:05:46.493Z INFO Parsing HEX file: C:\Projects\nRF5_SDK_16_00\examples\peripheral\blinky\hex\blinky_pca10059_mbr.hex
2020-03-10T09:05:46.508Z INFO File was last modified at 10/18/2019, 9:31:01 PM
2020-03-10T09:05:46.521Z INFO Data block: 0x00000000-0x00000B00 (0x00000B00 bytes long)
2020-03-10T09:05:46.521Z INFO Data block: 0x00001000-0x00001640 (0x00000640 bytes long)
2020-03-10T09:06:07.704Z INFO Does not need to be reloaded: C:\Projects\nRF5_SDK_16_00\examples\peripheral\blinky\hex\blinky_pca10059_mbr.hex
2020-03-10T09:06:07.708Z INFO Hash is generated by SHA256
2020-03-10T09:06:07.711Z INFO Performing DFU. This may take a few seconds
2020-03-10T09:06:07.727Z INFO DFU procedure starts. This may take a few seconds.
2020-03-10T09:06:10.253Z INFO DFU for Application completed successfully!
2020-03-10T09:06:10.253Z INFO 0 dfu package(s) left.
2020-03-10T09:06:10.253Z INFO Waiting for device
2020-03-10T09:06:15.255Z ERROR Reopen device failed: Timeout while waiting for device DDDA8FA252F5 to be attached and enumerated
2020-03-10T09:06:15.255Z INFO Nordic DFU Trigger Interface was not found.Please physically reset device.
2020-03-10T09:06:15.256Z ERROR Device not found due to failure during DFU
2020-03-10T09:06:15.265Z INFO Target device closed.

Resetting the device to start the application can be done with a power off-on cycle after programming, right? Because I still can't see the app working.

RE: Successful dongle programming, but application not starting

Amanda Hsieh — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:09:34 GMT

Hi,

There are two blinky examples, Blinky Example (<InstallFolder>\examples\peripheral\blinky) and BLE Blinky Application (<InstallFolder>\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_blinky). Which example are you using?

If you flash the blinky_pca10059_mbr.hex to the nRF52840 dongle, you will observe that the LEDs are blinking.

Please provide the nRFConnect-Programmer log if you still have the issue.

-Amanda H.