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nRF9160 current consumption

Hi,

I use nRF9160 custom board and my application uses USART, ADC, I2c, SPI, RTC and LTE modem.
Currently I am trying to reduce sleep current on IDLE state which is 850 uA.


I noticed that the drivers pm functions were not invoked.

Can anybody give me advice to decrease the current consumption?

Thank's

Meni

prj.conf

# General config
CONFIG_ASSERT=y
CONFIG_STDOUT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_THREAD_NAME=y
CONFIG_NEWLIB_LIBC=y
CONFIG_REBOOT=y
#CONFIG_SEGGER_SYSTEMVIEW=y
#CONFIG_TRACING=y
CONFIG_THREAD_MONITOR=y
#CONFIG_NUM_PREEMPT_PRIORITOES=6
#CONFIG_NUM_COOP_PRIORITOES=0


# MCUBOOT
CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT=y
CONFIG_IMG_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_MCUBOOT_IMG_MANAGER=y

# Flash & #NVS
CONFIG_FLASH=y
CONFIG_IMG_ERASE_PROGRESSIVELY=y
#CONFIG_FLASH_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_FLASH_LOG_LEVEL=4
CONFIG_FLASH_PAGE_LAYOUT=y
CONFIG_NVS=y
CONFIG_MPU_ALLOW_FLASH_WRITE=y


# log rtt
CONFIG_UART_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_RTT_CONSOLE=n
#CONFIG_HAS_SEGGER_RTT=n
CONFIG_USE_SEGGER_RTT=n
 
# LOG new
CONFIG_LOG=y
#CONFIG_LOG_IMMEDIATE=y
CONFIG_LOG_PRINTK=y
#CONFIG_LOG_BUFFER_SIZE=2048
#CONFIG_AT_CMD_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_LTE_LINK_CONTROL_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_LTE_LINK_CONTROL_LOG_LEVEL=4


# Network
CONFIG_NETWORKING=y
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS=y
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD=y

# LTE link control
#Turn on to make the LTE Link Controller to automatically initialize and connect the modem before the application starts0
CONFIG_LTE_LINK_CONTROL=y
CONFIG_LTE_AUTO_INIT_AND_CONNECT=n
CONFIG_LTE_PSM_REQ_RPTAU="00000110"
CONFIG_LTE_PSM_REQ_RAT="00000000"

# TCP
CONFIG_NET_BUF_USER_DATA_SIZE=1
CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_POSIX_NAMES=y
#CONFIG_NET_RAW_MODE=y

# BSD library
CONFIG_BSD_LIBRARY=y

# AT host library
CONFIG_AT_HOST_LIBRARY=y
CONFIG_UART_INTERRUPT_DRIVEN=y
#CONFIG_AT_HOST_UART=2


# Stacks and heaps
CONFIG_MAIN_STACK_SIZE=8192
#CONFIG_HEAP_MEM_POOL_SIZE=71680
CONFIG_HEAP_MEM_POOL_SIZE=65536
CONFIG_HW_STACK_PROTECTION=y


# Disable native network stack to save some memory
#CONFIG_NET_IPV4=n
CONFIG_NET_IPV6=n
CONFIG_NET_UDP=n
#CONFIG_NET_TCP=n

# ADC
CONFIG_ADC=y
CONFIG_ADC_0=y
CONFIG_ADC_NRFX_SAADC=y

CONFIG_KERNEL_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
CONFIG_SYS_PM_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_TRACING=y

CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE=y
CONFIG_TICKLESS_IDLE_THRESH=3
CONFIG_TICKLESS_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_SYS_POWER_MANAGEMENT=y
CONFIG_SYS_POWER_SLEEP_STATES=y
CONFIG_DEVICE_POWER_MANAGEMENT=y
CONFIG_DEVICE_IDLE_PM=y

#UART
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_TRUSTED_EXECUTION_NONSECURE=y
CONFIG_UART_INTERRUPT_DRIVEN=y
CONFIG_UART_2_NRF_UARTE=y
CONFIG_UART_2_NRF_TX_BUFFER_SIZE=255
#CONFIG_UARTE_NRF_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_UARTE_NRF_LOG_LEVEL=4
#CONFIG_DMA_LOG_LEVEL=4
#CONFIG_DMA_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

#SPI
CONFIG_SPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_3=y
CONFIG_SPI_3_NRF_SPIM=y
CONFIG_SPI_3=y 
CONFIG_SPI_NRFX=y
CONFIG_MAIN_STACK_SIZE=4096
#CONFIG_SPI_NRFX_SPIM_MISO_NO_PULL is not set
#CONFIG_SPI_NRFX_SPIM_MISO_PULL_DOWN is not set
#CONFIG_SPI_NRFX_SPIM_MISO_PULL_UP=y

#CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y
#CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL=4



# Enable I2C
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_NRFX=y
CONFIG_I2C_1=y
CONFIG_I2C_2=n
CONFIG_I2C_INIT_PRIORITY=60

CONFIG_COMPILER_OPT="-DNRFX_RTC_ENABLED=1 -DNRFX_RTC0_ENABLED=1"

CONFIG_DEBUG_OPTIMIZATIONS=y

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