Summary of issue (what’s wrong): My Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Dev Kit is effectively “stuck” in Force-Recovery / APX (RCM) mode. On the host it always enumerates as 0955:7523 NVIDIA Corp. APX, and it will not boot (no HDMI output). Flashing with SDK Manager / JetPack 6.2.x fails with “Device failed to b…

Yes, no matter what boot medium you are trying there, they are all based on sdkm to flash.

I have tried both picocom and minicom - still no results - what can be wrong here?

Settings for Picocom - picocom v3.1 port is : /dev/ttyUSB0 flowcontrol : none baudrate is : 115200 parity is : none databits are : 8 stopbits are : 1 escape is : C-a local echo is : no noinit is : no noreset is : no hangup is : no nolock is …

Are you sure your TX/RX should not be swapped? Also, make sure your console is opened before flash attempt or power on attempt.

I have also tried swapping the RX and TX cables around - and also first started the terminal - before - applying power to the board - what concern me is that there is -0 - Serial response - But still the Nvidea device boots into - recovery mode and I can perform a command line Flash successfully. Sh…

Could you take a picture for how is your actual cable connection?

Sure here goes. [USB-Serial Connection] [Nvidea Serial Connection1]

This is the Nvidea kit I purchased - through Amazon - directly from Nvidea US. [Nvidea Kit]

Could you take the whole picture of your carrier board? Both sides are needed.

Sure [Nvidea Board - 2] [Nvidea Board - 1]

Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Dev Kit - Fail to Flash, Boot, Enters Force Recovery Mode - Pls Help

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