Since you can't afford CDMA WS, might I suggest finding someone in your area who owns it and asking them? Maybe they'll charge you $15 or $20 to do it rather than the $100 for WS.
sorry to say but you may have to get a different phone then if you cant afford the WS its very helpful with repairing esns as well as many more features (not trying to make this a WS thread)
Since you can't afford CDMA WS, might I suggest finding someone in your area who owns it and asking them? Maybe they'll charge you $15 or $20 to do it rather than the $100 for WS.
If you are serious about flashing, CDMA Workshop is a must. If you are any good at flashing phones, you will make the $107 back in a few flashes. If you are someone merely wanting to save a few bucks and do it on your own, find yourself a serious phone flasher to do that for you for a fee.
ESN repair is simplest if done through the CDMA Workshop. Without that, it gets pretty tricky.
I know there hasn't been any discussion in this thread for a while,... anyway...
Sounds like the ESN is already zero'd out, so have you tried just sending the command to write to nv item 0 at all yet? PM me, I'll send you a custom program to try.
I highly doubt that you can do ESN repair even with CDMA workshop because it is a Samsung. Most of those particular makes wont let you access to repair it. So I m not so sure that purchasing CDMA WS will work for that anyway.
I'm thinking since it shows up as Zero's, it might still be back to 'Write Once Read Many' mode and correctable using generic chipset commands. Not to argue, but I have seen and done this with other phones, although sometimes it's the manufacturer specific 'invalid esn' such as 0000001F instead of 00000000. I have even seen recent Sprint phones that when asked for item 85 (msl) they respond with it.
I imagine everyone was talking primarily about using CDMAWS's Memory Writing (Command Code 4) technique, which wouldn't work on a zero'd esn without knowing the exact locations in advance, or some EFS rebuild,... It seems to me the bulk of methods I remember being available in CDMAWS were not actually geared toward repair, but replacement instead.
Either way 'SharpTJ', if you are still lurking around... I'll give it a shot ( or two...)
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