Status 08 means the card accepted the work and will answer later — common for RAM operations that take real time on card, such as installing or personalising an applet. Do not retry on this code and do not count it as failed. The original command was accepted and counted; a retry arrives with a stale counter and produces CNTR low. Hold the card in a pending state and wait for the follow-up PoR.
Usual cause
Not a failure. The card is telling you it accepted the work and will answer later — common for operations that take real time on card, such as installing or personalising an applet.
What to do
Do not retry on this code, and do not count it as failed. Retrying is actively harmful: the original command was accepted and counted, so the retry arrives with a stale counter and produces a spurious CNTR low. Hold the card in a pending state and wait for the follow-up PoR.