Incorrect file on nRF51822 download tab?

[riceman0]

So, we have been developing our firmware (for a while now) against a SoftDevice version called 6.0.0-1 alpha. We are getting close to production time, so we wanted to switch to the latest 6.x.x version, and we see that there is a 6.2.1 available on the download tab.

When we install 6.2.1, our firmware stops working -- even though we understand that all 6.x.x's are backwardly compatible. When we put the 6.0.0-1 alpha back, it works again.

When we put 6.2.1 back (it breaks again) and read back the fW version using nRFgo studio, it reports a version number of 7.0.1. (!) If accurate this could explain why our firmware breaks.

This indicates to us that Nordic may have mis-packed their various download files on this downloads tab.

Can you please take a look at this? Thanks.

[RK]

Have you recompiled your app against the headers in the 6.2.1 softdevice package you downloaded? There are comments in the releasenotes about API changes and you're going all the way from a pre-release alpha to a production release about a year newer so a recompile against the correct headers would be advisable anyway.

I suspect that nRFgo is just mis-reporting

[Hung Bui]

@riceman0: In my case nRFGo Studi showed it's S110 v6.2.1 with Id: 0x0035 You should follow the instruction by RK of recompile the firmware with header files from S110 v6.2.1

[RK]

Having seen the comment above from Hung Bui, you might want to check you have the right file, mine is this

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 xxxx  staff  218168 Oct 10  2014 s110_nrf51822_6.2.1/s110_nrf51822_6.2.1_softdevice.hex

218168 bytes long.