No Bluetooth after Flash 1.15

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Please include the following information, in order for us to help you as effectively as possible.

  • What product do you wish to discuss? RAK4631

  • What firmware are you using? 1.15

  • What firmware version? 1.15

  • Computer OS? Windows

  • What Computer OS version? 11

  • How often does the problem happen? I was on 1.14.1 and upgraded to 1.15 no bluetooth connectivity or blue lite after upgrade

  • How can we replicate the problem? upgrade firmware

  • Provide source code if custom firmware is used or link to example if RAKwireless example code is used. Release v1.15.0 - MeshCore Blog

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Welcome to RAK forum @bammerma ,

We are not involved on MeshCore FW so we have no idea why your BLE is gone after your FW update. Please connect to MeshCore team.

As for the hardware you can try to upload a basic BLE app (non MeshCore) to isolate if it is HW or SW issue.

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OK, I am not that familiar with Meshtastic, can you give me an easy way to flash it with the latest version to see if that works?

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You can use Meshtastic Flasher to easily update the FW. It is also drag and drop approach like MeshCore.

https://flasher.meshtastic.org/

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OK, Meeshtasstic version 2.7.13 has been flashed to the device and still have the same behavior. When bluetooth is turned on I scan and cannot see it with the Meshtastic app on my Android phone. I can configure either with the web client or the android client when I connect it to usb. Next steps?

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Few things to check.

  • BLE connection issues on meshtastic is sometimes fix by unpair first to the device then pair again.
  • Look on the serial logs to see if BLE are started correctly.
  • Test on a different phone with Meshtastic App.
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I unpaired and still dont see it. There used to be a blue LED, but that is no longer lighting up. I dont have another phone, but my PC cannot see it either.

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One thing I forgot is to do upload Flash Erase FW first before the actual FW. This solves erratic behaviors on the node.