LG VX-8100
bitpim esn change
I'm curious, if i change the esn in the esn file on my phone to the esn of another phone i own, what would happen?
just out of curiosity
just out of curiosity
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if you go online and do an esn change, the phone you change the esn to will be activated and the other will no longer be. Pretty much a no-brainer, unless I'm not quite understanding your question completely. Not sure what the bitpim part has to do with esn change.
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i would imagine bad things will haPPEN if you change that stuff on your phone through bitpim.
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Ever here of pushing the envolope? Do us a favor when you do change your ESN to that of another phone let us all know what happens. 😳
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aside from Wacarguy, the rest of the comments to this message were useless. If you dont have an answer to a question, dont post anything. It makes more traffic, and more confusion.
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If it were this easy to change the ESN on a phone, there would be more problems with cloning so I'd say this is not possible.
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I know for a fact: The ESN is hard coded, and can not be changed.
I speculate that: If you see a reference to it, and change it, it could do one of 2 things.
1.) Nothing except change the "ESN" that is displayed in the menu under system info, but not the one that the phone broadcasts on the network to validate your subscriber info.
2.) In addition to the above, it could conceivably jack up the "authentication" as the A-Key is a complex string compiled by an algorithm that works on a combination of the ESN and MTN (telephone number).
Either way, not the benefit you were looking for. ESN's stopped being software encoded in the late 80's to cut down on cellular fraud. Motorola used to allow this on their bag phones. Change esn in...
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I speculate that: If you see a reference to it, and change it, it could do one of 2 things.
1.) Nothing except change the "ESN" that is displayed in the menu under system info, but not the one that the phone broadcasts on the network to validate your subscriber info.
2.) In addition to the above, it could conceivably jack up the "authentication" as the A-Key is a complex string compiled by an algorithm that works on a combination of the ESN and MTN (telephone number).
Either way, not the benefit you were looking for. ESN's stopped being software encoded in the late 80's to cut down on cellular fraud. Motorola used to allow this on their bag phones. Change esn in...
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