How to erase all data / user information

[bakntyme]

Originally Posted by weedahoe

You likely could but here is what you have to understand. That is hard coded info and carrier specific. If the OP did that and then gave it to you and you tried to do OTA programming or even activation and it didnt work (because nothing points to the carrier) then you would be upset. Most people dont know about EPST or even how to access it. Even if someone did, the only thing they are going to get is your number. Nothing else can be identified back to you.

MDN and MSID are not hard coded as they are changed often during ROM flash and need to be corrected, and a carrier activation should update them. Neither MDN nor MSID points the activation to the carrier; in most phones it is the cell phone number, which could not be entered prior to initial activation as it would be unknown, so activation has to work starting with spaces or zeros in those fields. Also, they cannot be intrinsically carrier specific as I ported my number from Verizon to Sprint and my MDN is that number. In my phone, the NAI has my name in it because my Vision email address is my name.

Bottom line, those fields can be cleared of identifying data and it will not prevent the phone from being activated by the new user.