How to turn digital roaming off?

Anna, I do not know what a "cordless cell phone" is.
If you mean a cell phone, it is on a Network, such as AT&T or Verizon.
"Roaming" usually means you are outside of the native area of the phone, either far from where you were when you activated the phone, or perhaps you are in a "dead spot" wherever you are currently, such as in a parking garage, out in the deep woods, etc.
Is the cell phone's phone number the exact same Area Code of where you live?
Have you changed Carriers, i.e. from Verizon to (ugh) Sprint?
Have you (or anyone else) changed the SIM card?
Are you making calls from a place that might be blocking the signal from the Cell tower?
Are you in a city or in a rural area.
"Roaming" indicates your phone thinks it is outside the area you subscribed to.
Roaming almost always is more expensive, so find out what is going on.

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call his cellphone company for him and tell them that he went to mexico and forgot to call and inform them and they will switch it so that he can get service off of there towers

This is pretty much what you need to do. Just turn off all the roaming features. However when you roam it typically means you dont have service through Sprint so dont be surprised if when you turn off roaming capabilities your phone doesn't get ANY signal. Here's the link to your phones manual page 112 is about roaming.


Setting Roam Mode
Your phone allows you to control your roaming
capabilities. By using the Roaming menu option, you
can determine which signals your phone accepts.
Choose from two different settings on your phone to
control your roaming experience.
1. Press > Settings > More... > Roaming > Set Mode.
2. Highlight an option and press .
n Sprint Only to access only the Sprint network and
prevent roaming on other networks.
n Automatic to seek service on the Nationwide Sprint
Network. When Sprint service is unavailable, the
phone searches for an alternate service.
Call Guard
Your phone has two ways of alerting you when you are
roaming off the Nationwide Sprint Network: the
onscreen roaming icon and Call Guard. Call Guard
makes it easy to manage your roaming by requiring an
extra step before you can place or answer a roaming
call. (This additional step is not required when you make
or receive calls while on the Nationwide Sprint Network.)
To turn Call Guard on or off:
1. Press > Settings > More... > Roaming >
Call Guard.
2. Select On or Off.
To place roaming calls with Call Guard on:
1. From standby mode, dial 1 + area code + the
seven-digit number and press .
2. Read the message and press .
Note Call Guard is turned on by default on yourphone.

To answer incoming roaming calls with Call Guard on:
1. Press .
2. Read the message and press .
Data Roam Guard
Depending on service availability and roaming
agreements, yourphone may be able to access data
services while roaming on certain other networks. You
can set your phone to alert you when you are roaming
off the Nationwide Sprint Network and try to use data
services such as messaging.
To set your Data Roam Guard notification:
1. Press > Settings > More... > Roaming >
Data Roaming.
2. Highlight an option and press .
n Always Ask (default mode) sets your phone's Data
Roam Guard feature on. You will see a prompt that
will require you to respond anytime you access
data services while roaming.
n NeverAsk turns your phone's Data Roam Guard
feature off. Your phone will not notify you of your
roaming status when you access data services.
Touse data services when Data Roam Guard is active:
© When a notification appears informing you that data
roam charges may apply, press ROAM (left softkey)
to connect.
Note If the Call Guard feature is set to On, you need to
take extra steps to make and receive roaming calls.

the imei if its a mysto is you min from the company its the code the company uses to link to the roaming network and towers it is usually your full 10 digit number but sometimes is different you will need to call and ask for your m i n from the carrier

Call sprint and ask them to flag you for a PRL update. Then dial *2 and it will automatically update.

I checked in the Katana II menu and there is no option to update the PRL

Not sure about the bars, but you can go to the settings in the main menue and try to go to roam only. It could be that you r carrier is having a problem with their tower. Your phone, normally, will try to stay on your carriers towers. If you force it to a roaming status, you might get a better signal, but on a roaming network.

Good luck!

j

hello,

normally this error would cause if your in Analog Roaming area, i also have seen this error, when one travels through a Analog Roaming area, and Data portion of cell phone will get stuck with Analog Roaming Tower, when ur back with in Digital Roam Area this should go away, if not call your service provider and have them reset your data Signal from Analog Tower.

hope this information will help you.
Ty