Rogers wireless - Programming old Moto analog car phone

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Programming old Moto analog car phone

budman@frozenorth.ca

2006-07-12, 3:33 pm

I have an old analog Motorola car phone that is useless on Bell. It has worked
for years but their analog service is non-existent now. So I took out an
account with Rogers. The phone has been programmed "correctly" by a Rogers tech
that is (was) familiar with these phones at one time.

The hex ESN was extracted from the phone in test mode and given to Rogers to
covert. When trying to make a call, the Rogers lady comes on and says to "call
*611 as your phone is not authorized............"

I have tried different hex to decimal ESN converters. One called HexPal gives
me 10 digits, which is one zero less than the Rogers conversion. I'm told that
it should be 11 digits. If I covert each of the hex numbers separately and put
them together, I get an entirely different number, but is 10 digits.

I'm going back to London Cellular on Friday so they can take another 'kick at
the can'. In the meantime I thought I'd try to find out something on my own.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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budman@frozenorth.ca

2006-07-12, 10:33 pm

I made a mistake. The ESN is displayed in four windows, 2 hexadecimal numbers
at a time. We wrote down each pair of hex numbers. Putting them all together
as a single 8-digit hex number and converting it to decimal provides an 11 digit
number. However, the phone won't call out except to Rogers *611.

However, I'm trying to figure out why Motorola displays the ESN in four separate
windows. If the results of each window are converted individually, then placed
in a line, it will give an entirely different 11 digit decimal number. Is this
the actual ESN?? Motorola in Utah don't have the answer.

Thanks

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