Help Meid Is Zeroed out. Can't write it back

[Murrfk]

I know this is a sensitive subject but I bought a phone from ebay to put onto my account. The meid, is zeroed out. I have been trying for a week to get this fixed using the usual tools, but I can't. Whenever I try to write the proper meid using requestnvitemwrite meid, I get a "Error response recieved from target". What I THINK the problem is is that, although the meid is zeroed, the ESN is not. I didn't think this was possible as the meid was supposed to write the p(ESN). When I do a requestnvitemread meid, it comes back as as 0x0000000000000000. However, when I do a requestnvitemread esn, I always get the proper ESN.

Obviously, I can't take the phone to be set on my phone account with no meid.

I read that both MEID and ESN have to be zeroed to fix the meid. I have tried SCM 0x2A and SCM 0x3A. I have downgraded the radio to 1.04. I have downgraded the operating system to 1.5. What I believe I understand is that if all p(ESN) are not put to zero, you can't write either the ESN or the MEID. It appears that the MEID is zero but that perhaps one of the ESN location is not? I have read and read and read about this. I have searched every location I have found listed, or that I could scan for and search with a hex editor and no matter what I do, the ESN comes back as the proper one, but the MEID can't be written.

If anyone can, within the forum rules, give me any guidance or thoughts on how I can resolve this, I would appreciate it.

 

[LBPHeretic]

Before you bought this handset, did you verify with Sprint that the ESN was in good standing? If it is in not, then the handset is essentially useless for network connectivity.

If the ESN is is good standing, then I am not sure why the MEID would be zeroed out. I hope someone that knows will chime in.

 

[Murrfk]

It's actually not a sprint phone, and I have no reason to believe the ESN is bad and it won't matter as my carrier will put it on my account. However, they will program it with the meid address under the battery, and obviously it won't work with the meid being all zeros in the phone. I need to get it fixed and back to the original meid for them to program it onto the system.