location of the esn number

Just curious: Are you working on a project for a class? Not trying to insult you in any way, just very curious.

And you can blame the OP's bad phrasing on people like me who have been in the business for too long. We use ESN interchangeably with IMEI and MEID. I work for a major phone distributor and we still say ESN any time we are referring to a phone's identifier. Its just habit.

Hello Josh,

Yes I am a student currently and am partaking in an iFixit project.

Regarding your statement on the use of ESN vs. IMEI and MEID, I found that, after conducting research, for most phone distributors now, the ESN (which I found that can be used interchangeably with IMEI and MEID) term is not used as often. Hence, why for this question, I said that the information he may be seeking can be found under the term's IMEI and MEID.

I may have mis-worded my answer with saying that ESN is not being used as often. The numbers are just being categorized under IMEI or MEID more likely now and looking for the IMEI and MEID terms may help the user asking the question.

Oh your answer was spot on. I was just saying that a lot of us still use it out of habit. Everything is based on the IMEI now but us old timers can't be bothered to say the right terms. We are that lazy :)

I'd be really interested to hear about your project. I think it's great that helping real people with real questions is part of a project. I like hearing about things like that.