Jetson orin nano super 8gb stuck in boot loop

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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I bought a brand new Jetson orin nano super 8gb on Amazon the other week, I set it up completely fine with the jetpack OS(it was already running the latest firmware), I then placed it back in the box and let it sit.

Today when I went to boot it up it had no output whatsoever to my screens that I previously used it on, not even the UEFI showed, so I hooked up my TTL adapter and it shows it’s stuck in a boot loop as the fan pulses on and off.

I’ve tried multiple compatible power supplies and confirmed that the provided one with the dev kit is functional and can maintain the proper voltage at load.

The last_boot_error: 0x6005118a, rst_source 0x3, rst_level: 0x1

And after the initial boot it goes to last_boot_error: 0x0, rst_source 0x19, rst_level: 0x0

I’ve attempted using WSL2 to use the SDK manager but when it goes to flash the device it states the device isn’t ready even though I do have it in recovery mode.

I may try to load Linux on a laptop if I can find one so I’m not using WSL but I am currently stumped on this issue

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Hi,

We suggest setting up a native Ubuntu environment on your laptop and using the SDK Manager to flash the Orin Nano again.

Thanks

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for recovery mode should i leave the jumper on or do i need to remove the jumper before attempting to flash?

When I attempted flashing it with the jumper on with a laptop it said the nano wasn’t ready. with it removed it boots the orin nano but loses connection through the USB. Is there supposed to be any physical sign that the Orin is in recovery mode(flashing lights, fan, TTL output)?

when plugged in it shows up as “APX”

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Hi,

If you put the device in recovery mode, please use lsusb to check whether in recovery mode.

After confirmed, please remove the jumper.

Thanks

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the output for “lsusb” the device shows up as “0955:7523 Nvidia Corp. APX“ so i figure that confirms its in REC mode, Would the Log from the SDK tool be helpful? Also I’m using ubuntu desktop 24.04.3, I’m currently installing 20.04 to see if that makes a difference.

Update:

I have Ubuntu 20.04 running the SDKM and it still fails, following the process of turning the board on in recovery mode and connecting it to the host it connects and checking with lsusb it shows properly in recovery mode, I then follow the process in the SDKM GUI and when I press flash it then cause’s the board to start booting and fails with the same message “board is not ready”.

I’m using the provided power supply

I have a known good USB-C cable but it is not on a USB 3.0 port.

If that is need the only option I have is dual booting my desktop which I wouldn’t want to do if not necessary

Update2:

I dual booted my desktop with Ubuntu 20.04 and with and with the same process before the fash failed reporting the device is not ready.

I attempted with the ./flash.sh method but the drive does not show up to flash

The SDK manager reports bootrom failed

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Hi,

If your storage is NVME, please try

Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit (NVMe):

$ sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1p1 \
  -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_t234_nvme.xml -p "-c bootloader/generic/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" \
  --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

If SD card, please try

Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit (SD card):

$ sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device mmcblk0p1 \
  -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_t234_nvme.xml -p "-c bootloader/generic/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" \
  --showlogs --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal

Also, please record the serial console log for us to review.

Thanks

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This is the output of the attempt to flash to the SD card

jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx~jetson.txt (23.4 KB)

and this is the TTL logs from when the device started to boot after the flash attempt

TTL logs.txt (90.1 KB)

and this is the out put of lsblk with the orin nano connected and in recovery mode if this is relevant

jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/jetson-flash/Linux_for_Tegra$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0    7:0    0  63.2M  1 loop /snap/core20/1623
loop1    7:1    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop2    7:2    0 346.3M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/119
loop3    7:3    0  73.9M  1 loop /snap/core22/2133
loop4    7:4    0 349.7M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/143
loop5    7:5    0 516.2M  1 loop /snap/gnome-42-2204/226
loop6    7:6    0  91.7M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop7    7:7    0  12.2M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/1216
loop8    7:8    0  45.9M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/599
loop9    7:9    0  50.8M  1 loop /snap/snapd/25202
loop10   7:10   0  63.8M  1 loop /snap/core20/2669
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
tqsda1   8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
mqsda2   8:2    0   931G  0 part /
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

and testing with my Jetson Orin AGX 64gb i can confirm the SDK manager successfully flashes

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Hi,

Could you please provide the TTL logs captured during the flashing process?
Additionally, we’d like to confirm: is your Orin Nano a developer kit or a custom board?

Thank you.

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The logs I sent in the previous post are from directly when it was trying to flash. I’m using the developer kit

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TTL logs-NVMe.txt (90.2 KB)

this is an attempt to flash to the NVMe with the SDK manager during the flash attempt

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Hi,

Please try to apply the following patch listed under Additional Files:
NVIDIA Developer

Some Orin Nano/NX SOMs may experience boot failures in release r36.4.4.

Thanks

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I’m sorry how do I go about applying this?

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Hi,

The patch applied like below:

$ ls ./
Linux_for_Tegra  overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2  
$ tar -xvjf overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2 
Linux_for_Tegra/
Linux_for_Tegra/._libcuda.so.1.1
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/BCT/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/BCT/tegra234-mb1-bct-device-p3767-0000.dts
Linux_for_Tegra/Tegra_Software_License_Agreement-Tegra-Linux.txt
Linux_for_Tegra/._libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so
Linux_for_Tegra/._EULA-public.txt

Thanks

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thank you, I’m getting started now

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this is how I applied the patch

jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2.1_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS$ wget https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/embedded/L4T/r36_Release_v4.4/overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2
--2025-10-07 05:09:59--  https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/embedded/L4T/r36_Release_v4.4/overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2
Resolving developer.nvidia.com (developer.nvidia.com)... 23.219.2.141, 23.219.2.155
Connecting to developer.nvidia.com (developer.nvidia.com)|23.219.2.141|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r36_Release_v4.4/overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2 [following]
--2025-10-07 05:10:00--  https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r36_Release_v4.4/overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2
Resolving developer.download.nvidia.com (developer.download.nvidia.com)... 23.50.113.134, 23.50.113.161
Connecting to developer.download.nvidia.com (developer.download.nvidia.com)|23.50.113.134|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9609 (9.4K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2’

overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2       100%[==========================================================>]   9.38K  --.-KB/s    in 0s

2025-10-07 05:10:01 (49.8 MB/s) - ‘overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2’ saved [9609/9609]

jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2.1_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS$ ls
Linux_for_Tegra  overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2
jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2.1_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS$ tar -xvjf overlay_mb1bct_36.4.4.tbz2
Linux_for_Tegra/
Linux_for_Tegra/._libcuda.so.1.1
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/BCT/
Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/generic/BCT/tegra234-mb1-bct-device-p3767-0000.dts
Linux_for_Tegra/Tegra_Software_License_Agreement-Tegra-Linux.txt
Linux_for_Tegra/._libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler.so
Linux_for_Tegra/._EULA-public.txt
jett@jett-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2.1_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NANO_TARGETS$

So far both using the SDK manager and “sudo ./flash.sh jetson-orin-nano-devkit nvme0n1p1“ have failed

Here is the TTL logs from the ./flash.sh

TTL logs 10-7.log (659.0 KB)

Here is the Linux output

Linux output 10-7.txt (23.5 KB)

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Hi,

Please try below commands as Quick Start — NVIDIA Jetson Linux Developer Guide show

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1p1 \
  -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_t234_nvme.xml -p "-c bootloader/generic/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" \
  --showlogs --erase-all --network usb0 jetson-orin-nano-devkit internal | tee flashing.log

and provide the flashing.log and TTL logs for us to review.

Thanks

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here is the TTL logs

TTL logs 10-8.log (605.5 KB)

here is the flashing.log

flashing.log (23.1 KB)

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Hey, are there any updates?

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Hi,

Some questions to confirm:

  • Is your orin nano a developer kit or a custom board?
  • Could you provide the link you bought ?

Thanks

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It’s the developer kit directly from Nvidia nothing custom

I bought it off Amazon this is the link to the listing