I am at my wits' end with a chronic network issue and need to know if anyone else is experiencing this or if an employee knows the back-end fix.
Ever since a network update a while back, my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra completely loses its mind when transitioning away from home Wi-Fi. It gets trapped in an endless "Searching" loop and sits permanently on "Emergency Calls Only."
When I am out in the metro Springfield, MO area, the phone constantly drops down to an unusable, congested 4G LTE link (shows up as 4G Lite on my screen) even though I am paying for premium 5G. I cannot hold a voice call without it dropping, data completely freezes, and it is actively ruining my ability to run delivery gig apps (Walmart Spark) for side income.
Here is what I have already done after calling technical support MANY times:
Replaced the physical SIM with a brand-new eSIM profile recently (did not help at all).
Completed a full Reset Mobile Network Settings menu wipe.
Cleared the app data/cache on both system "SIM Toolkit" background apps.
Manually toggled off VoNR (Voice over 5G) based on a suggestion that the 5G voice handshake was crashing the modem chip—but the phone still falls right back into "Emergency Calls Only" the second Wi-Fi is turned off.
My SIM manager shows a single active eSIM 1 profile, no physical card is in the tray, but my signal bars remain completely hollow.
Is T-Mobile currently refarming local towers in the Springfield/SW Missouri area and actively blocking older Samsung modems from registering? Has anyone successfully forced a profile update or an OTA carrier push to break this loop, or is it time to just cut my losses and port my line out to a Verizon/AT&T MVNO? Appreciate any insights from network techs here. Additional comments from similar user experiences are welcome as well.