nrf52 DK board system ON sleep enter and wakeup

[man]

I am using NRF52 DK board and removed SB9 track to connect my ammeter for current measurement . I have taken ble_app_blinky ( peripheral example ) from SDK15.3.0 .

My application needs system ON mode since in system OFF ,  LFCLK switches off and I have my calendar example  running on RTC ( since RTC works on LFCLK) .

After running fresh code (ble_app_blinky) from the sdk , I am not able to see system ON mode ( 1.4uA current )  .

From the other documents and tickets I figured out following things ,

-> System ON mode is executed when no other tasks( functions including debug and nrf_log prints ) are running . 

-> if Softdevice is used , sd_app_evt_wait(); is used . and if not ,    __WFE(); is used .

 ->  GPIOTE interrupts  are used to wake it up ( WFE() ).

But , the device does not enter into SYSTEM_ON, even when I stopped advertising  , in ble_app_blinky example . ( ON my ammeter , I can see 2-3mA )

HOW DO USE THIS MODE TO PUT THE DEVICE INTO SLEEP and WAKEUP ???.

[man]

One more observation 

If disable softdevice as below ,

sd_ble_gap_disconnect(m_adv_handle,BLE_HCI_REMOTE_USER_TERMINATED_CONNECTION);
sd_ble_gap_adv_stop(m_adv_handle);
ret_code_t err_code;
err_code = nrf_sdh_disable_request();
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

then device enters into system on mode , but how do we reconfigure and enable softdevice and start advertising again ??

[Simonr]

Hi

In most of our examples, most noteworthy the Power Profiling application perhaps, you can see that the main loop calles the idle_state_handle() function. This function again calls the nrf_pwr_mgmt_run(); function which checks if the SoftDevice is enabled, and prepares the SoC to go to sleep before actually putting it to sleep. I would suggest you use this function as reference to put your device to sleep as well.

Best regards,

Simon

[man]

I have manage to put the device into system on mode , the problem was somewhere , NRF_LOG_INFO was printing continuously . So after disabling log info and ble advertisement , device enters into system on mode and wakeup is configured based on app_timer expiration   or any other interrupt event .