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Cloning a Pocketbook touch lux 3 ereader sd-card, incl. firmware, succesfully (i.e. writing CID)

I tried to order a new sd-card, including firmware, for my PB touch lux 3 device as suddenly stopped performing writing operations. However, the pocketbook support told me that the firmware is uniquely created per device, so that they could not send me an sd-card but I should send my device to them (and pay a lot for reparation). So I tried to clone the sd-card myself, but my device would not work with this exact clone of the sd-card did not work. After some more reseach by my brother, we found that some devices are protected by requiring the sd-card to have a certain unique cid. Luckily Richard Burton did some research on hacking the cid of a sd-card which he described on his blog here , and in this video . I had no samsung evo plus lying around, so I first tried his script on some other sd-cards (Samsung evo 16GB, and another original Samsung 8GB sd-card that came with a Samsung galaxy 4), unfortunately the script did not work on any of these cards. Fortunately my roommate had ...