[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Lots of people have been running the Droid Turbo on T-mobile and AT&T from the very beginning.

I know, because we kept answering the same questions over and over. Everyone would start a new thread just to ask if they could use the Droid Turbo on T-mobile or AT&T. But here's people from October 2014 using T-mobile...

OCTOBER 2014

NOVEMBER 2014

(Just like me, he was aghast at the size of the Moto Nexus 6, coming after the 2013 5" LG Nexus 5. For the next Nexus phone in 2014 everyone wanted slightly larger, like 5.2", 5.3" at most, and 1440p for the gen6 Nexus but not 6 inches! So, this 5.2" 1440p AMOLED Moto Quark was the "Nexus 6" we wanted. Had almost all the same specs, and even a bigger battery than the Moto Nexus 6 but in a reasonable size.)

Tons more.

Those users get LTE bands 2, 4 plus HSPA. They'll get T-mobile and AT&T LTE bands, just not all the LTE bands.

FCC ID IHDT56PK1

Droid Turbo XT1254 (and XT1250) has LTE bands 2, 3, 4, 7, 13

AT&T has LTE bands 2, 4, 5, 17. (Very little LTE band 5 locations and even then rarely only LTE band 5, so LTE band 5 is not extremely important but I wanted it since I use AT&T.)

T-mobile (USA) has LTE bands 2, 4, 12.

Two years ago, LTE band 12 for T-mobile was not that important but now it is.

Here's a YouTube video from November 2014 (soon after the phone was released):

Droid Turbo working on Sprint, AT&T, T-mobile & more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDs--1vVuBE

screenshot from that video:

ALSO:

How to Use the Motorola Droid Turbo on Other Carriers (November 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5gdPXClUk

How to use the Droid Turbo with any SIM card and GSM network (November 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZbJWqNRKs

How to Use the Motorola Droid Turbo on Other Carriers (Video)

November 3, 2014

https://theunlockr.com/2014/11/03/how-to-use-the-motorola-droid-turbo-on-other-carriers-video/

However, in that article above, he's wrong that the Droid Turbo was exclusive to Verizon. The name "Droid" is exclusive to Verizon but the exact same device, with exact same FCC ID and bands was sold by regional U.S. LTE/CDMA carriers under the XT1250 Moto Maxx name. The "Turbo" name was also attached to another Quark, the Moto Turbo XT1225 in India.

NOTHING about the Droid Turbo was "exclusive" to Verizon, except the locked-down bootloader. :rolleyes: But Verizon's PR department did a magnificent job convincing the world otherwise!

---------- Post added at 03:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:43 AM ----------

Right. I can show a few dozen posts from T-mobile and AT&T users dating back to October 2014. The only issue is people wish the Droid Turbo XT1254 had more LTE bands for AT&T (LTE band 17 and even LTE band 5) and T-mobile (LTE band 12), which is why I bought the "international" version -- the Moto XT1225 -- which had all the AT&T LTE bands.

Even then Motorola wouldn't initially officially admit the XT1225 had LTE band 5, even though the FCC found it. :rolleyes: Later, when the XT1225 was released in India (same FCC number, therefor the same bands) they admitted LTE band 5 and another HSPA band used by T-mobile (HSPA band IV). Of course by then, users in Canada had confirmed those were already there and I had found them using Qualcomm modem testing software QPST, etc. So, Motorola was only admitting what we already knew -- finally. :rolleyes:

The XT1225 and XT1254/XT1250 all share LTE bands 2, 3, 4, 7.

The XT1225 additionally has LTE band 5 and 17 (more bands used by AT&T).

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FCC ID IHDT56PK2

---------- Post added at 03:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 AM ----------

Here's their policy, a part of which I quoted on the previous page.

http://www.verizon.com/about/consumer-safety/device-unlocking-policy

Postpay they do not touch:

Droid Turbo was postpay.

But if curious, for prepay: