Moto v2397 does not react well to beer.

"Beer, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."
- Homer Simpson

So, while in Colorado I managed to drop my phone in a pint of beer. My friend said that I could not have done it better if I had tried. So much for drinking at high altitudes. I took the faceplate, back cover and batteries apart and dried them out. The phone turned on the next day and my phone book was intacted. My phone, however has an identity crisis. I no longer reads CellularONE which it used to, even when I was in Colorado and on an AT&T system and although I have reprogrammed the phone many, many times and it has the correct SID and telephone number it still thinks it's ESN is FFFFFFFF. Does anyone know if there is any way to fix this? I don't think there is and I may need to start shopping for a new handset. I feel naked without my wireless phone.

 

Aye. I needed some rope... Charlie Bronson always had a rope.

 

Not 04294967295, that's for sure. It's a Motorola and I think that it's old ESN prefix was 66... I only remember that because I'm a huge Pittsburgh Penguins fan and that's Mario Lemiuex's number. I can check for sure as I still have the box the phone came in and although the Hexidecimal ESN was removed by either the beer or batteries on the back of the handset the decimal is still listed on the sticker. Although I get 25516777215 when I convert FFFFFFFF, but I know FFFFFFFF is not correct. It is too bad I don't have ZZZZZZZZ as an ESN because, like my phone I too am an alcoholic.

 

So it has come to pass, the Hooligan's faithful Motorola v2397 has perished in a great lake of the Colorado micro-brew known as Single Track (good stuff.) A replacement has been sought since his return to the MHK but none had been found... until now. Yes it is true, Hooligan's Motorola tradition continues as he now comes to possess a TDMA Motorola Timport P8090. Awww yeah, I've got a flip phone now, fools and it ain't got no iTAP. Word.

 

That's a hard lesson to learn but one I won't soon forget.

Old school. Word... but I can deactivate the open answer so I can check the caller ID by opening the phone before I answer the call. Word to your mother.

 

Moto v2397s don't react well to beer but Rancid Hooligan reacts well to the fact that he has a cell phone again and the menu is identical to that of the v2397. God bless Motorola!

 

It's killer. It's a great looking phone that has the same Motorola UI as my v2397, it gets AMAZING signal (usually 4-5 bars anywhere without the antenna up.) I have 4-5 bars in my house where I used to get 2-3 on a good day. I could use the phone in my favorite bar which is in a brick basement and the phone's volume is very loud so I can actually use the phone in the bar without having to go outside. And it vibrates which is very handy when I need to not have the phone ring. My old phone didn't vibrate so I'm having some trouble getting used to it, I still kind of jump when it goes off. The only complaint I have with the P8090 is that I can only receive SMS not send it.