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[alwims]

My wife and I are in an RV Park right on the boarder with Mexico. As a mater of fact, I can see the Rio Grande River and the Mexican shore line out my living room window. My problem is, my Rzr Maxx keeps connecting to a Mexico cell tower. I'm running ICS 4.04 215 Rooted, Any ideas what I can hack or change to stop this. I am on the US side and don't plan to go to Mexico. I called Verizon and was told basically tough sh!t, I would have to pay for International Roaming if I wanted to use my phone "on the USA side so close to the boarder. I need help, Please.

[snives]

My wife and I are in an RV Park right on the boarder with Mexico. As a mater of fact, I can see the Rio Grande River and the Mexican shore line out my living room window. My problem is, my Rzr Maxx keeps connecting to a Mexico cell tower. I'm running ICS 4.04 215 Rooted, Any ideas what I can hack or change to stop this. I am on the US side and don't plan to go to Mexico. I called Verizon and was told basically tough sh!t, I would have to pay for International Roaming if I wanted to use my phone "on the USA side so close to the boarder. I need help, Please.

Download Phone Info, and set your phone to CDMA Only?

[ilanderech]

the problem is that ICS is global so you can dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose cdma (auto prl)

[alwims]

I have turned off all the data roaming I can find. ilanderech I'll try your suggestion and get back to you.

[alwims]

the problem is that ICS is global so you can dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose cdma (auto prl)

I did this and lost 4G which I expected to do with cdma only. My question to you sir is, do I have to lose 4g for this to work? Would selecting LTE/CDMA/EvDo do the same thing?

[bstrong]

Select lte/cdma should work

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[alwims]

No mater what I do. I've got the data figured out, I hope, But BOTH phones keep hooking up to a Mexico tower for voice. I've even had 4g for data and Mexico for voice on the same phone at the same time. I need help bad.

[mattlgroff]

Call Verizon and see what they can do.

[alwims]

Thanks, I'm calling billing and second tier Support tomorrow. I am not paying for Mexican roaming while I am in The USA, PERIOD.

[boxermansr]

I live in a border city too, and have had this problem with the "big three" (AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon). AT&T simply put an international block on my phones, and I never had the issue (never had the issue of not being able to make calls in the areas where I'd roamed internationally either). Sprint, they were AWFUL, and every month insisted that I somehow was in Mexico, even though there's no chance I'd be over there, especially with how bad it's gotten in the last few years.. As for Verizon, since I've been back with them, I haven't had this issue, but I did have it a few times many years ago, and a call to customer service usually got any charges waived. It doesn't happen where I live, but it does happen in areas of the city where I work/travel/etc (and its pretty much the same exact areas with all three carriers, so I imagine the Mexican towers are more powerful than the US ones - Sprint even told me that there was nothing they could do if the towers from Mexico were more powerful than there's and to pretty much "deal with it").

[alwims]

I live in a border city too, and have had this problem with the "big three" (AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon). AT&T simply put an international block on my phones, and I never had the issue (never had the issue of not being able to make calls in the areas where I'd roamed internationally either). Sprint, they were AWFUL, and every month insisted that I somehow was in Mexico, even though there's no chance I'd be over there, especially with how bad it's gotten in the last few years.. As for Verizon, since I've been back with them, I haven't had this issue, but I did have it a few times many years ago, and a call to customer service usually got any charges waived. It doesn't happen where I live, but it does happen in areas of the city where I work/travel/etc (and its pretty much the same exact areas with all three carriers, so I imagine the Mexican towers are more powerful than the US ones - Sprint even told me that there was nothing they could do if the towers from Mexico were more powerful than there's and to pretty much "deal with it").

We're over here in Mission TX, right on the river. Did Verizon try to make you pay for the Mexican roaming or give you any problems with waiving the charges?

[boxermansr]

We're over here in Mission TX, right on the river. Did Verizon try to make you pay for the Mexican roaming or give you any problems with waiving the charges?

It was many many years ago, and they did credit me, without an issue, things since then of course could be completely different. I haven't roamed with Verizon since I've been back with them.

[alwims]

I called 2nd tear tech support and got nowhere so I asked for a supervisor and he said he could block it. We'll see when the bill comes next month.

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