Verizon Suddenly Roaming

ncapp11

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My P3XL just started showing my connection as roaming for an unknown reason. I tried all the fixes outside of a hard reset and talked through the issue with Verizon to no avail.

Has anyone had this happen before? No problems on Verizon's side as far as they can see.

You can see a few differences in the network settings from what most users see.
 

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If Verizon lost a tower, you'd be roaming on whatever was available. Or your phone could have updated the PRL, and a roaming tower was added, and it has a stronger signal than the nearest Verizon tower. You could bring the phone into a Verizon store and ask, but most people at Verizon company stores are just sales people, and know less about cellphones than you do (all they know is "sell phones").
 
This issue appears to have surfaced with my 3 XL as well. However, the phone is not actually in roaming mode. I am going to wait to see if the October update will fix the issue.

Has anyone else found a fix other than a reset?
 
Have the same problem with my 3 xl now being in roaming mode. Also, no longer have the option to turn on wifi calling.
These both started after the second Android 10 update. I am also hoping that the October update fixes it or else i will try to reset also.
 
Unlocked P3 Xl - Verizon network
After rebuilding a couple of times and trying various things, I decided to drop into a local Verizon store to see if I could get a SIM replacement. I had gone through a couple phones with the SIM which was a few years old. Walla! The SIM replacement fixed the roaming issue ... I reset the network settings as well for good measure.

While the db levels do not appear to have changed much, I am seeing significant improvement in network performance with the new SIM replacement. This tells me that Verizon made some changes in their network targeting older SIM IDs at about the same time as the Android 10 release. While we may still have issues with the software and network frequencies, a new SIM did make some obvious improvements.

Anyone observed the same?
 

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