AT&T Nexus 6 on Verizon without a phone with a nano sim

[pc747]

@grenefroggie

The way around carrier bloat is to set up your phone first via wifi then put in your carrier sim. Bloatware is only installed during set up so if your carrier sim is in during set up it will install carrier apps and ringtones.

 

[grenefroggie]

Interesting. When pushing updates for the next software version, does this still apply?

 

[pc747]

I install my own updates to avoid that from here( Factory Images for Nexus Devices - Android mdash Google Developers )

 

[grenefroggie]

Makes sense. Since my N7, I use Wug's toolkit. It essentially does the same thing. As I have grown out of flashing things manually, I like the ease of using the toolkit.

I am still running a ROM using 4.4.4. I am just waiting on another ROM that catches my fancy to upgrade to 5.0.x.

 

[pc747]

Probably Not Ready Yet Verizon Appears To Be Gearing Up To Activate Any Nexus 6 Through Normal Procedures Not Just Ones Sold By The Carrier And There s An OTA Going Out For It

Looks like activating the Nexus 6 on VZW is going to get a whole lot easier.