So I’ve bought a Proxmark3 Easy from Piswords Aliexexpress. Setup it up with Iceman 4.15864 and got it running without any problems. Used it - copied some cards - put it away.
A week goes by and I whip it out to use it - suddenly it doesn’t work. Running a “hw tune” gives me following.
[=] ---------- LF Antenna ----------
[!] ⚠️ LF antenna is UNUSABLE
[=] ---------- HF Antenna ----------
[+] HF antenna: 14,55 V - 13.56 MHz
[+] Approx. Q factor (*): 4,2 by peak voltage measurement
[+] HF antenna is OK
(*) Q factor must be measured without tag on the antenna
[-] ⛔ Not showing LF tuning graph since all values is zero.
Making me think the LF antenne had gone bad. As I was only about to use the HF antenna I thought heck. Tried to do “hf search” and it keeps complaining about multiple tags. Running a hf search without any cards gives me:
[usb] pm3 --> hf search
🕔 Searching for ISO14443-A tag...[#] BCC0 incorrect, got 0x00, expected 0xaa
[#] Aborting
[!] ⚠️ No known/supported 13.56 MHz tags found
Which is also a bit strange. I have tried to do the following without effect: 1) Use different usb cables; 2) Reflash both the bootrom and the firmware; 3) Reinstall the client and repeat (2); 4) Tightning all the screws.
Boot gives the following:
[=] Session log /Users/name/.proxmark3/logs/log_20221204.txt
[+] loaded from JSON file /Users/name/.proxmark3/preferences.json
[=] Using UART port /dev/tty.usbmodemiceman1
[=] Communicating with PM3 over USB-CDC
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Release v4.15864 - Radium
[ Proxmark3 RFID instrument ]
MCU....... AT91SAM7S512 Rev A
Memory.... 512 Kb ( 59% used )
Client.... Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05
Bootrom... Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05
OS........ Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05
Target.... PM3 GENERIC
“hw ver” gives the following:
[ Proxmark3 RFID instrument ]
[ CLIENT ]
Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05 844ca091a
compiled with............. Clang/LLVM Apple LLVM 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.11)
platform.................. OSX / x86_64
Readline support.......... present
QT GUI support............ present
native BT support......... absent
Python script support..... absent
Lua SWIG support.......... present
Python SWIG support....... absent
[ PROXMARK3 ]
firmware.................. PM3 GENERIC
[ ARM ]
bootrom: Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05 844ca091a
os: Iceman/master/v4.15864 2022-10-29 01:34:05 844ca091a
compiled with GCC 10.2.1 20201103 (release)
[ FPGA ]
LF image 2s30vq100 2022-03-23 17:21:05
HF image 2s30vq100 2022-03-23 17:21:16
HF FeliCa image 2s30vq100 2022-03-23 17:21:27
HF 15 image 2s30vq100 2022-03-23 17:21:38
[ Hardware ]
--= uC: AT91SAM7S512 Rev A
--= Embedded Processor: ARM7TDMI
--= Internal SRAM size: 64K bytes
--= Architecture identifier: AT91SAM7Sxx Series
--= Embedded flash memory 512K bytes ( 59% used )
Any ideas?