The time to erase the flash is too longhttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/58948/the-time-to-erase-the-flash-is-too-longHi, I am using nRF52840 SDK 15.3.0 Keil IDE The soft device is S140 JLinkRTTViewer for debug Device has both Central &amp; peripheral functions. It takes about 15 seconds to erase flash 63 pages. It takes too long to erase the flash 63en-USTelligent Community 13Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:08:32 GMTRE: The time to erase the flash is too longhttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/239328?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:08:32 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:6be5dc02-0991-4502-8634-b07726c4ed8aVidar Berg<p>Hi,</p> <p>It takes up to 85 ms to erase a flash page according to the product specification, but that&#39;s not including the overhead you have when you have to schedule flash operations through the Softdevice. It would be faster if you could erase the flash using the NVMC directly before enabling the Softdevice.</p> <p>More on how flash operations are scheduled when Softdevice is enabled: <span><a title="Flash memory API" href="https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sds_s140/SDS/s1xx/flash_mem_api/flash_mem_api.html">Flash memory API</a></span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>