Unable to read T5577 in Magic Ring

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Hello all!

I am very new to all this so sorry for my extreme ignorance. I purchased the ring with a proxmark3 with the goal of duplicating cards for work. This worked fine for writing to a test 5577 card but have been unable to read or write to the 5577 in the ring. I know it is supposed to be programmed by default but clearly I have broken or erased it by accident.

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Are you placing the ring with the single dot side facing straight down over the LF antenna?

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Yes I am, along with many other orientations. I should add the 1K side works great

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ok with the single dot side down on the antenna, do the following commands;

  • lf search

  • lf t5 detect

post screenshots!

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can you take a pic of the orientation of your ring?

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Seems to me like it is not even trying to talk, can’t see it at all

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Here is a pic of one of my attempts, I have tried many, many orientations

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Try putting the ring in the center of the LF antenna?

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I have tried this, standing up, on its side, on the edge, overhanging, and more. I think I have tried every easy to execute orientation…

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Hmm… we program and test each ring before they go into inventory… But it’s possible one snuck through.

Try this;

  • LF search
  • LF em 420x clone --id 0102030405
  • LF detect

Basically the idea is to try to force write block 0 in case it got so messed up it’s undetectable

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Unfortunately still silence. Is it possible that such a thing could occur in shipping/handling? If it is actually dead I’ll get another and use my card for now

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Just a shot in the dark… have you had any luck with your pm3 on ANYTHING else? Like an iso card

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Yes, I have done a clone of a Keri card out of curiosity. No issue writing to the included ID-5577 card. I too thought that might be the issue but tuning shows no problem and it easily detects other cards.

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Ok last thing…

  • Confirm client and firmware versions match

  • LF TUNE without the ring on and get voltage value

  • put ring on while lf tune running and get voltage value

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Drops from 26v to 25v with the ring, and the card drops it to 8v

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That seems appropriate for voltage drop on the ring. Can anyone confirm with theirs?

I can check later today too

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Confirmed.

Just checked mine and it goes from 25/26 to 23/24 depending on orientation. Having the ring opening at 90’ to the antenna causes the biggest voltage drop.

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Any chance you’ve had this ring near a wireless charger?

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Thanks for all the help guys, got it to respond by repeatedly writing lf t55xx write -b 0 -d 000880E8 -p 00000000

Seems to have knocked some sense into it!

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