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No RX on UART

Hi,

I'm using 51822 to control GSM module via UART (57600, no flow control). My device is USB and battery powered. After I program the chip I HAVE to disconnect all the power in order to start system clean and have it working. If I don't completely remove power on start nrf will send commands to GSM module, GSM module will recognize them and send a reply to nrf, but nrf won't get anything on RX (I'm using simple UART without interrupt and without softdevice).

What could it be? I also don't use 32khz xtal, so it synthesises clock from hf crystal.

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  • UART needs HFCLK, not the Low frequency clock. Look at the image below from nRF51 Product Specification V3.1

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    There is not enough information for us to narrow down the problem. Is your nRF device having any BLE activity along with UART traffic? If so then without flowcontrol it is bound to miss packets.

  • Is there anything on nrf side that I could do to fix that? Can I reset UART somehow to recover from this? If I connect the output to a terminal on PC I dont see any extra data being sent, so i cant say that GSM does something wrong.

    GSM might send a corrupted character when it reboots, but then afterwards it doesnt send anything unless it gets a request from nrf. But nrf seems unable to recover from erroneous state.

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  • Is there anything on nrf side that I could do to fix that? Can I reset UART somehow to recover from this? If I connect the output to a terminal on PC I dont see any extra data being sent, so i cant say that GSM does something wrong.

    GSM might send a corrupted character when it reboots, but then afterwards it doesnt send anything unless it gets a request from nrf. But nrf seems unable to recover from erroneous state.

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