Hi guys I just bought:
- one nRF51 Dongle (nRF6825 Rev 1.1.0 2015.27)
- some nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kits (nRF6930 Rev. 1.0.0 2014.27) that are basically beacons with battery.
The "nRF Beacons" App worked nicely on a friend's Android as I understand iOs is currently hiding beacons that haven't been authorised by Apple.
I tried to flash the applications from the latest version of "nRF Toolbox" from my iPad mini but they kill my beacon: it stops advertising and the led switched off.
I then tried to roll back, I entered in DFU mode again and I flashed the application from the pre-compiled hex at "nRF51822-BK-FW - nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit Firmware Files - 1.1.1" from "MyPage" and the beacon is still dead, with the led blinking red for a really small amount of time, probably in an infinite reset loop and it wouldn't even go into DFU mode pressing SW1.
I get my bacon back only if I flash the application ble_app_beacon_from_source_code.hex as suggested here and pressing SW1 while inserting the battery devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../
I can't flash a soft device or a boot installer from nRF Toolbox because it would say "Old DFU only supports Application upload", I assume the app is not compatible with the boot loader installed in the beacon or viceversa.
Anyway I can't flash a newer/compatible soft device or even the application mentioned above from my Dongle with Master Control Panel 3.10.0 and with "MEFW nRF51822 0.11.0" or "MEWV nRF51822 0.9.0" because it would say "Error during firmware upload. Error occurred while waiting for response for START DFU. Error response Not Supported." as per screenshot and log attached within.
So I would like just to be able to flash my beacons using the Dongle, so far I've only been able to build and flash the UART sample on the dongle and that was working fine.
Do I own a Dongle incompatible with my beacons so I wonder why the dongle is recommended rather than the old development kit or there's a way to fix this and how? I've spent an incredible amount of time and patience fiddling with this and I can't find anymore info in the existing discussions.
Thank you in advance for any help. Francesco
