So I jacked my phone up...help fix me ESN

**ownmart** · 06-02-2010, 03:31 AM

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)

**ten0rplaya04** · 06-02-2010, 10:15 AM

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.

**thesmitty68521** · 06-02-2010, 04:34 PM

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.

**Guest** · 08-16-2010, 03:39 PM

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.

**Pac3comm1** · 08-16-2010, 05:13 PM

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.

**Guest** · 08-16-2010, 07:19 PM

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...)