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Description of Change

BLE OTA started from an app's buttonless DFU never accepted an upload on a Wio Tracker L1: the bootloader showed its BLE OTA screen and dropped back to the app about 10 s later, with nothing advertising in between. Same on master without the display code, and on battery with USB unplugged.

The app hands over with GPREGRET 0xB1, which tells the bootloader the SoftDevice is already set up. The handover locks up the CPU, the chip resets with 0xB1 still set, the bootloader skips SoftDevice init, and its first SoftDevice call fails (APP_ERROR_CHECK, fault id 0x4001, RESETREAS 0x08 at the fault), which resets into the app.

This turns a 0xB1 entry into a 0xA8 soft reset before board_init(), so the bootloader always initializes the SoftDevice itself. The peer data in .noinit survives the reset.

Tested on a Wio Tracker L1: before, the app was back 10.2-11.3 s after the trigger in every run; after, the bootloader advertised as WTL1_DFU 2 s after the trigger and two full BLE updates (728 KB, legacy DFU) completed, validated and booted. Where exactly the lockup happens, in the app's handover or the bootloader's first run in the jumped state, is not established; the reset covers both.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Bluetooth Low Energy over-the-air updates started through an app’s buttonless DFU option. Updates now continue in the bootloader instead of falling back to the application after about 10 seconds.
  • Preserved peer data during the restart, allowing devices to reconnect after the update.

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📝 Walkthrough

At startup, main now converts DFU_MAGIC_OTA_APPJUM in GPREGRET to DFU_MAGIC_OTA_RESET and resets the system before board initialization. The changelog describes the BLE OTA reset path and peer data behavior.

Changes: BLE OTA reset handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Convert the OTA jump value before startup src/main.c, changelog.md	Before board initialization, main converts the specified GPREGRET value and resets the system. The changelog describes the BLE OTA reset path and peer data behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: entering nrf52 BLE OTA from software broken after gcc toolchain update firmware#12196: Reports a BLE OTA software-entry bootloop on nRF52 devices, which may relate to this PR’s change to the BLE OTA reset path.

Suggested reviewers: rcarteraz

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6a6b1

The BLE OTA entry could fail before the intended clean reset. Resolve the GPREGRET access path before merging.

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Review comments at @src/main.c:
- Around line 173-174: Update the DFU_MAGIC_OTA_APPJUM branch to use
sd_softdevice_is_enabled() to select GPREGRET access: use
sd_power_gpregret_get() and sd_power_gpregret_set() when the SoftDevice is
active, and retain direct NRF_POWER register access when it is not initialized.

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