Recovering nRF53 and nRF70 Series devices

nRF Util

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nRF Util

On devices from nRF53 and nRF70 Series, the nrfutil device recover command also erases the flash memory and then writes a small binary into the recovered flash memory, just like for nRF52, nRF54L, and nRF91 Series. However, for nRF53 and nRF70 devices, make sure to use the --core option to first recover the core responsible for the network operations before you recover the application core.

For example, the command order for an nRF53 Series device would be the following:

nrfutil device recover --core Network
nrfutil device recover

This order is important, because recovering the network core erases the flash memory of both cores, while recovering the application core erases only the flash memory of the application core. If you recover the application core first and the network core last, the binary written to the application core is deleted and readback protection is enabled again after a reset.