“Best Practices” Way to Change T5577 Mode

[Pilgrimsmaster]

You have clearly done your research.

@dc74089

I have the opportunity to enroll a fresh tag — no cloning necessary (though I do have an existing badge, so cloning is an option).

A fresh tag / new ID you would need a Proxmark, but to simply clone an existing card, a “Blue Cloner” will be all you need.

@dc74089

the “blue cloner” (and I see that the “trusted” model is no longer available on the DT store).

That is a bummer, hopefully Amal sees this post and has an answer for you if they are getting restocked…
The DT model is the only one I have seen that does AWID mode, but other than that if you buy one from anywhere else, It SHOULD do EM and HID.
If you do this, I would recommend Roscos mod for reading/writing, it will increase the performance.

The "hot wire" blue cloner mod

In the interest of minimizing the risk of tearing when programming a T5577 with my blue cloner, and to avoid opening the enclosure each and every time I want to use it to expose the coil, I modified it to put half of the coil on the outside and edgewise, to make it easy to “slash across” the implant orthogonally and as close as possible. Check it out: My blue cloner sort of looks like a hot wire cutter now, hence the title of this thread. I took a few pictures of the construction if anybody…

I’m sure during your thorough research, you found out that the blue cloner writes a password to your chip, it is only a minor inconvenience compared with the ease of use, especially if you only want to toggle between modes that the blue cloner is capable of, but if you want to change to another mode or remove the password, you will need a PM3.

The PM3 easy, is a “better” tool than the blue cloner, and although the PM3 Easy would definitely benefit from a custom LF antenna like @anon7067117 said, it can still read and write with the factory antenna if you take your time to get the positioning correct like @MTFT said