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I want to flash a firmware on my nrf51822 module I was trying an example from Nordic, I concatenated the bin file with the s110 file and it worked fine. Now, when I went ahead to flash the bin file, here's what I got (I followed the wiki http://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Board:-yunjia-nrf51822)

> flash probe 0
nRF51822-QFAA(build code: Gx0) 256kB Flash
flash 'nrf51' found at 0x00000000

> flash banks
#0 : nrf51.flash (nrf51) at 0x00000000, size 0x00040000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1
#1 : nrf51.uicr (nrf51) at 0x10001000, size 0x00000000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1

for some reason, I have no idea why size 0x00000000.. any clue?

If I do

> nrf51 mass_erase
> flash banks
#0 : nrf51.flash (nrf51) at 0x00000000, size 0x00040000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1
#1 : nrf51.uicr (nrf51) at 0x10001000, size 0x00000100, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1

Now when I try to flash the firmware, I get the following:

> flash write_image erase    ~/NRF51822/Board/pca10001/s110/ble_app_proximity/gcc/_build/test.bin 0
auto erase enabled
Padding image section 0 with 12596 bytes
using fast async flash loader. This is currently supported
only with ST-Link and CMSIS-DAP. If you have issues, add
"set WORKAREASIZE 0" before sourcing nrf51.cfg to disable it
jtag status contains invalid mode value - communication failure
error waiting for target flash write algorithm
Failed to enable read-only operation
Failed to write to nrf51 flash
error writing to flash at address 0x00000000 at offset 0x00000000

Previous state query failed, trying to reconnect

It's driving me crazy, I have no clue why that's happening. I couldn't get it to work.

Note: I have an STLink-v2 dongle, no STM32 board involved. I also updated the stlink-v2 firmware using stlink utility.

One last thing, the test.bin file I'm using is basically the output of the following (using S110 v6 and example from sdk v6): srec_cat ~/Downloads/s110_nrf51822_6.2.1/s110_nrf51822_6.2.1_softdevice.hex -intel ble_app_proximity_s110_xxaa.hex -intel -o ./test.bin --line-length=44

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After nrf51 mass_erase, you probably need a reset halt.

If that doesn't help:

If you have issues, add
"set WORKAREASIZE 0" before sourcing nrf51.cfg to disable it

Did you try that? That should eliminate problems, but the flashing will be slow. You may have better luck with a value greater than 0 but smaller than the default, like "set WORKAREASIZE 0x2000".

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