It's not wrong, there were only 4 models.
A fully locked Priv with all the bloatware from AT&T was a model STV100-1
A factory unlocked Priv purchased from BB, (Digital River) in N America was a model STV100-1
Many carriers sold the STV100-1
A whole bunch of STV100-1's were sold on Amazon, eBay and elsewhere as "unlocked STV100-1, Priv", they were in fact AT&T units with an carrier unlock code. The unlock code would unlock them from the carrier, but to get an update, they had to have an active AT&T SIM installed.
Here's a list of the frequencies
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And a pretty complete list of compatible carriers
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The STV100-3 is pretty unversial, as long as you don't need CDMA, or wireless charging.
The Z-30 had 6 models and was a lot more limited in frequencies per model.
I understand what you were trying to say, I think you missed my point entirely. There were always 3 updates for the Priv Model STV100-1, you had to use the one that matched your carrier.
So - With the Priv, Model STV100-1, there's more to it than a model number.[/QUO
Yes, there are four models, I agree, that's fact. The problem with the lists and charts you posted is that they don't give a complete and detailed listing by country of any particular carrier's frequencies. The information you posted is very misleading and too generalised to be of any use to someone who wants to make sure he or she is buying the right model for any given carrier in a particular country. They are by no means consistent across international borders.
My carrier does not want to have anything to do with BlackBerry, so I am not sure how this update came about, but I have had this problem with Telcel not supporting BlackBerry updates for many years. Somehow, they do happen, though, eventually. Maybe it works differently here.
Your lists all have Telcel, true, but Telcel is all over Latin America and doesn't use the same frequencies in all countries; therefore, the model would not necessarily be the same going from country to country.
I was referring to Telcel Mexico as my carrier, but of course that is not my carrier for the phones I use outside of Mexico.
For Telcel MEXICO, the only compatable Priv is the STV100-1, but this model doesn't work on Telcel everywhere. The STV100-3 works in other countries on Telcel, but here in Mexico it won't. By "works" I mean optimum capability, barely limping along with a SIM does not count.
I use Frecuency Check for specific countries and carriers because they give those specifics and only using generalities on something so critical to our work is not worth the risk. An error wastes resources and time. Accuracy is paramount to me and I want specifics; mistakes are costly and the Mexican peso is very weak against the USD, so we do our verifying to the best of our ability before we buy.
I bought a Priv100-1 unlocked AT&T phone on Amazon and it did arrive with all that carrier's junk apps, which surprised me, but I eventually removed them all along with any Google app that I knew to be non-essential, using Cobalt 's guidelines for the BB10's. Some others were impossible to remove.
I honestly did not know there was a difference between unlocked by carrier and factory unlocked until this thread, so this improves the odds of getting the precisely correct phone model and I will add that to my enquiry to a dealer before I buy another phone.
However, right out of the box I inserted my TELCEL SIM from my Z30 into this Priv and successfully updated Lollipop to Marshmallow without a problem, using the workaround. I never have used AT&T as a carrier and obviously see no reason to think an active AT&T card would have been necessary for realising an update to my unlocked Priv, given that it wasn't in my case.
I seem to have very different experiences than some others here on CrackBerry regarding my various phones, but I am meticulous in following instructions and study them carefully before starting them. Moreover, if something goes wrong, my first thought is that I did something incorrectly, not that the phone is not working properly or that some third party is at fault. That type of thinking is futile and not a good problem - solving step, to put it mildly.
I also avoid making sweeping statements on most subjects outside of my fields and in regards to BlackBerry can speak only from my empirical observations and analyses of results; however, I have a great deal of practical experience in this in general as a researcher and would never share doubtful info as facts without clearly noting to all that it was not verified.
My Priv is behaving very well now, I like it very much and I am very sorry that not everyone who bought one has had that experience.