AT&T unlocked PRIV update

[CherokeeMarty]

Any number of us PRIV users bought the unlocked AT&T PRIVs when they were on sale on eBay. I know took advantage of that sale. Getting updates has been impossible, even using all of the no SIM, wifi only, etc., tricks. Over on Crackberry, it was posted a couple of days ago that Blackberry had reached an agreement to push updates directly to the unlocked AT&T phones. So yesterday, I checked for an update through the Settings/System/About Phone/System Update and was told that there was no update available, much to my disappointment. However, today I get a push notification from Blackberry that an update was available, and I jumped on it. It was a large one, 1805.5 MB, and it's now downloaded and installed.

I'm running an unlocked AT&T PRIV with a TMO SIM installed, so I know it didn't come through the carrier. I really appreciate the agreement that Blackberry and AT&T reached allowing Blackberry to directly push updates. No more carrier interference for me. Now, if Blackberry can just rescue the TMO and Verizon users.........

 

[scaots]

Just saw the update available on my wife's Priv. It is the unlocked AT&T, but using on AT&T and never entered the unlock code that came with it. The good news is that it has zero AT&T crapware now. Hopefully it makes the device run more smoothly. AT&T probably finally gave up trying to support a device for so few users and just said go for it BB. My question is would it still need the AT&T no service patch that they put out?

 

[middbrew]

Just saw the update available on my wife's Priv. It is the unlocked AT&T, but using on AT&T and never entered the unlock code that came with it. The good news is that it has zero AT&T crapware now. Hopefully it makes the device run more smoothly. AT&T probably finally gave up trying to support a device for so few users and just said go for it BB. My question is would it still need the AT&T no service patch that they put out?

I would think you are ok without it. From my understanding the "no service" issues was related to AT&T's added stuff to the update. If you have an unlocked device from BlackBerry and are getting the updates from there instead of from AT&T you won't need the patch.