kminor = snoop &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&.kminor's views on.&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& EasyESN ******* Notice: I am not the originator of all of this information, I have just gathered bits and peices of what i have found on the internet and what I myself have learned and put them in one file for convenience. I thank SpoonMan and Radiophone to both of whom have been great sources of information. EasyESN is a small but growing system that allows a dealer to call up and find out the pair of a certain phone. It is run by Mobilnet and in use in many of the major cities of the U.S. including New York, San Fran., Austin Texas and i suppose several others although i havent had werd of it being in use in our kc area. Even though it is a fairly new system it is already being exploited whenever possible. Here's how to use it in a nutshell. dial *ESN(see esn prefix's) when it asks for validation code type "111111" heh, silly isnt it. here is a list of ESN Prefixes by code. Dec Hex Manufacturer & Brands --- --- --------------------- 129 81 Oki (AT&T, Astrotel, Chrysler) 130 82 Motorola (Pioneer...) 130 8200 Motorola AMPS 130 8280 Motorola NAMPS 130 82A0 Motorola AMPS 130 82E0 Motorola D-AMPS 131 83 E. F. Johnson 132 84 Hitachi (AT&T) 133 85 Fujitsu 134 86 Mitsubishi (Diamondtel, MGA, AT&T, General Electric, USA Corp.) 135 87 NEC (Kenwood) 136 88 Panasonic (Jaguar) 137 89 Harris 138 8A Toshiba (Audiovox, Tactel) 139 8B Kokusai 140 8C Clarion 141 8D Goldstar 142 8E Novatel (Hyundai, Bentley) 143 8F Ericsson - GE 144 90 Murata 145 91 DI-BAR Electronics 146 92 General Electric (Antel, ARA,Glenayre) 147 93 Gateway Telephone 148 94 R. Bosch (Blaupunkt) 149 95 Universal Cellular 150 96 Alpine - Kokusai - Fujitsu 152 98 Walker (INFA, Technophone, JRC) 153 99 CM Telecom (Freecomm) 154 9A Sony 155 9B Tama Denki Co. 156 9C Nokia / Technophone (Nokia-Kinex) 157 9D Ericsson / General Electric 158 9E AT&T Technologies 159 9F Qualcomm 160 A0 Hyundai 161 A1 Satellite Technology 162 A2 Technophone (Cellstar) 163 A3 Citicomm / Yupiteru 164 A4 Hughes Network Systems 165 A5 Nokia (Mobira, Technophone, Walker) 166 A6 Clarion 167 A7 MEI (Monsor Electronics) 168 A8 Motorola International 170 AA Philips Telecom 171 AB Philips Circuit 172 AC Uniden America (Radio Shack, Cellstar) 173 AD Uniden Japan 174 AE Shintom (Colt, Americel, Audiovox) 175 AF Sanyo (Antel) 176 B0 Samsung / Quantum 178 B2 Sun Moon Star (Antel, GTE)/ Emptel Electronics 183 B7 Omni 195 C300 Motorola AMPS 195 C380 Motorola NAMPS 204 CC Ericsson 212 D4 Motorola after mid-95 213 D5 Motorola, 1996? _____________________________________________________________________________ if you have any further questions find me on irc as kminor or on a local bbs as snoop. my email address varies every so often, it is currently kretro@hotmail.com