[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
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No, not with recent phones. I used modem scanning software QPST/QXDM and NV Calculator with 2014 Moto Maxx XT1225/2015 Moto Turbo XT1225 (same phone just re-named for different parts of the world) to prove it had LTE band 5 (useful for AT&T here in the U.S.) before Motorola finally admitted it had LTE band 5. Their original specs left it out on purpose (see below if you really want to know more), but 6 months later they finally published an updated specs sheet when they released the EXACT same phone again in India but called it the Moto Turbo.

Anyway, I scanned the phone with QPST and QXDM to verify the various bands. QXDM is the one that deals with LTE, while QPST does GSM and HPSA (WCDMA). It's been 4 years since I messed with it but during those few weeks I delved deeply into it. Once I confirmed LTE band 5 I walked away. Won an argument against some trolls in another forum. 6 months later, Motorola then confirmed my tests. It took 2 years for AT&T to actually build out LTE band 5 in my area, so I could see it on LTE Discovery app -- but I knew it was there.

See posts #9, #10 and #11 of this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-qualcomm-nv-calculator-adding-2g-3g-t2915649

I thought I was going to have to "enable" LTE band 5 but it was there all along.

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For those who want to know more...

2014 Moto Quark (Droid Turbo/Moto Maxx/ Moto Turbo) was basically smaller version of Moto Nexus 6 and the "Droid Turbo" was NOT exclusive in any way to Verizon.

Too long a story to tell in full here (told elsewhere with more documentation), but has to do with how in 2014 Verizon demanding an "exclusive" called the Droid Turbo -- which was merely the Moto Maxx XT1250 re-named as the "Droid Turbo". The Droid Turbo wasn't even exclusive here in the U.S. You could buy the Moto Maxx XT1250 from regional carriers, stick in an already-activated Verizon SIM card and it would run on Verizon with VoLTE and everything because they both have the SAME FCC ID. :rolleyes: Exact same device, same bands. AND, but the Moto XT1250 didn't have Verizon bloatware and the XT1250 bootloader was easily unlocked and phone rooted!

The Moto XT1250 was the "dev" version of the Verizon Droid Turbo -- until finally the locked down Droid Turbo bootloader was unlocked by Sunshine team in October 2015, a full year after the phone's release.

But besides that, Motorola/Verizon didn't want you to know you could import Moto Maxx XT1225 from U.S. territory Puerto Rico off eBay and it had ALL the AT&T LTE bands, including new (at the time) LTE band 5. ;) Even the Droid Turbo didn't have that. Verizon wanted to pretend their's was an exclusive phone, but besides the Droid Turbo clone Moto XT1225, then the easily obtained XT1225 had more LTE bands and HSPA bands (but no CMDA, but then I don't need CDMA).

So, the "Droid Turbo" world exclusive was just a PR lie from Verizon with Motorola's silence as assistance. :p

* The "AT&T" version of the phone (I owned 3 of them) was the Moto Maxx XT1225.

* The EXACT clone (same FCC ID, same bands, and ran on Verizon with VoLTE and everything) was the Moto Maxx XT1250; just stick in a Verizon SIM card. This XT1250 was even sold by other carriers in the U.S.

Everyone believed the Droid Turbo hype that out of the whole world only Verizon had this phone; when it was merely a re-badged "Moto Maxx". Months later when Motorola launched the Moto XT1225 in India as the "Moto Turbo", they published specs finally revealing all the LTE bands.