miekd

… if you live near a border, and on the other side of that border are different cell-phone providers.

I live near the belgian border. I tend to venture into Belgium a couple of times a month. As soon as I get into Belgium far enough that T-Mobile cuts out, I start roaming. Yet when I get back, the belgian cell towers are apparently so powerful that I keep on roaming. There was no solution except the painful multi-minute process of (1) going into your settings, (2) choosing a manual provider, (3) having to wait until it listed the providers – that always takes a minute, and (4) having to go back to “Automatic”.

But now, the solution on the horizon is the Death Grip. Because the roaming tower will almost always be weaker than the local tower.

1. Hold the Death Grip (this means touching the phone on the side of the bottom left of the device),
2. After a while, the iPhone will show “No Service”,
3. Release, and it’ll go to your local provider again.