ESN problem

About a year ago I bought a Sanyoscp-6400 reconditioned from one of those
online places. Phone works fine but when I went have it activated, the clerk
said he could not do it because the ESN number revealed the phone had at one
time been reported as lost or stolen. The company where I got the phone said
it always checks that but this one got through and they promptly sent me
another phone of a different make. My question is, if I remove the ESN
sticker on this phone and replace it with another ESN, (also a sprint phone,
one of my plethera of old ones) will I be able to activate this phone. Any
help is appreciated. P.S....... my regular phone did not like the hot tub
treatment last weekend. Thanks, Grego.

"grego4" <u39852@uwe> writes:
>My question is, if I remove the ESN
>sticker on this phone and replace it with another ESN, (also a sprint phone,
>one of my plethera of old ones) will I be able to activate this phone.

No, of course not. The sticker doesn't define what the
phone's ESN is; that's defined in the phone's ROM. The
sticker just tells you what's in the ROM.

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"grego4" <u39852@uwe> wrote in news:7ca0b7619344f@uwe:

> About a year ago I bought a Sanyoscp-6400 reconditioned from
one of
> those online places. Phone works fine but when I went have it
> activated, the clerk said he could not do it because the ESN
number
> revealed the phone had at one time been reported as lost or
stolen.
> The company where I got the phone said it always checks that
but this
> one got through and they promptly sent me another phone of a
different
> make. My question is, if I remove the ESN sticker on this phone
and
> replace it with another ESN, (also a sprint phone, one of my
plethera
> of old ones) will I be able to activate this phone. Any help is
> appreciated. P.S....... my regular phone did not like the hot
tub
> treatment last weekend. Thanks, Grego.
>
>

ESN stands for ELECTRONIC Serial Number....it's burned into the
phone's ROM. Every time you make a call, the ESN is sent to the
system, so it can see who is calling and verify the phone for
fleecing. If it's on the blacklist, it takes some heavy hacking
to change this number. It isn't worth the trouble.



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