AT&T SIM in Moto Z Force

[garak0410]

If I am not mistaken, Verizon Phones are unlocked and an AT&T SIM card should work correct?

That said, how are updates handled? By IMEI correct? So if and when Verizon pushes an update, a Z Force Droid on AT&T should still get the update, correct?

 

[ksefan]

Possibly. If not you can always take the sim out and check for update over wifi. That would work. Something like this happen with the Moto X Pure Edition where cdma carriers got marshmallow first then GSM carriers got it but the work around was to check for update over wifi

 

[garak0410]

Possibly. If not you can always take the sim out and check for update over wifi. That would work. Something like this happen with the Moto X Pure Edition where cdma carriers got marshmallow first then GSM carriers got it but the work around was to check for update over wifi

Thanks...will give it a try...we are ending up with a spare Z-Force and going to let an AT&T user give it a shot...

 

[garak0410]

Verified...AT&T SIM works perfectly in a Moto Z Force. You will get two NOT A VERIZON SIM messages when you reboot but that's it.

 

[doogald]

That said, how are updates handled? By IMEI correct? So if and when Verizon pushes an update, a Z Force Droid on AT&T should still get the update, correct?

Yep. Verizon doesn't push updates - Motorola does.

 

[garak0410]

Yep. Verizon doesn't push updates - Motorola does.

Cool and good to know.

 

[Luis Valle]

source? has it always been this way?

 

[doogald]

source? has it always been this way?

I used to have sources, but can't find them at the moment. For a carrier-proprietary phone like the Droids, Verizon must approve an update in their testing labs. Then they give the go-ahead to Motorola (or whichever OEM) to actually start pushing the update. It's usually pushed out to a small percentage of IMEI numbers randomly the first few days, then gets pushed to more, then is finally available to every IMEI to pull at any time.