Problems flashing RAK4630 (Bootload failure)

Hope you can help me.

Since yesterday, when I try to flash a RAK board, the firmware file is not replaced in the device window, but also appears in the folder. The erase file for a factory reset is also displayed in the folder in this way and has no effect.

With the same setup I have so far flashed all of my RAK devices (10-12 pieces) without any problems.

I used the video from “The Comms Char” to help me:
https://youtu.be/kmHt28CQHO4?si=I_agxKmSkTLQsKDK

but with the software presented for resetting the RAK boards
“Tera Term” I cannot select the serial interface at all.

The RAK 19003 Base Board flashed blue and green at the beginning. Now only the red LED of the charge and i trie this with two 19003 boards and 3 different RAK4630.

Don’t want to “lose” any more material…

I tested all 4 RAK4630 cores and couldn’t flash any of them.
I noticed that the drive is not named RAK4630, but: FTHR840BOOT?

After a bit of googling I found a tip to update the bootloader:

I will try this.

My attempts to load the bootloader somehow don’t work.
I’ve already tried various things.
The COM port should also be correct.
Do I have the correct bootloader?
Or does anyone else see an error?



cmd:
C:>adafruit-nrfutil.exe --verbose dfu serial --package WisCore_RAK4631_Board_Bootloader.zip --port COM37 -b 115200 --singlebank --touch 1200
Upgrading target on COM37 with DFU package C:\WisCore_RAK4631_Board_Bootloader.zip. Flow control is disabled, Single bank, Touch 1200

Failed to upgrade target. Error is: Serial port could not be opened on COM37. Reason: could not open port ‘COM37’: FileNotFoundError(2, ‘Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.’, None, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “nordicsemi\dfu\dfu_transport_serial.py”, line 99, in open
File “site-packages\serial\serialwin32.py”, line 31, in init
File “site-packages\serial\serialutil.py”, line 240, in init
File “site-packages\serial\serialwin32.py”, line 62, in open
serial.serialutil.SerialException: could not open port ‘COM37’: FileNotFoundError(2, ‘Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.’, None, 2)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “nordicsemi_main_.py”, line 294, in serial
File “nordicsemi\dfu\dfu.py”, line 226, in dfu_send_images
File “nordicsemi\dfu\dfu.py”, line 157, in _dfu_send_image
File “nordicsemi\dfu\dfu_transport_serial.py”, line 101, in open
nordicsemi.exceptions.NordicSemiException: Serial port could not be opened on COM37. Reason: could not open port ‘COM37’: FileNotFoundError(2, ‘Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.’, None, 2)

Possible causes:

  • Selected Bootloader version does not match the one on Bluefruit device.
    Please upgrade the Bootloader or select correct version in Tools->Bootloader.
  • Baud rate must be 115200, Flow control must be off.
  • Target is not in DFU mode. Ground DFU pin and RESET and release both to enter DFU mode.

C:>

What didn’t work on the PC I managed to do on the Surface :star_struck:
Maybe it was the COM settings.
But couldn’t get it to work on the PC yet :man_shrugging:
Maybe it will still help some people with the same problem :+1: