XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net   
      
   AJL  asked   
   > When I'm on I-8 near the Mexican border my phone sometimes hooks up to a   
   > Mexican tower. I know because it warns me with a popup advising that my   
   > free roaming doesn't work (even though I'm still in the US)...   
      
   Thanks for letting me know that you get an obvious popup when your phone   
   wants to connect to a roaming tower near the border between the US & Mexico.   
      
   I have two single-press methods that can tell me if I'm roaming:   
   1. Jeff showed me that Cellular-Z freeware will report roaming connections   
   2. I created a single-click shortcut to the about-phone roaming Settings   
      
   I noticed these NG options as I was looking for roaming realtime indicators.   
       
      
   We can turn off roaming on a per-app basis using the NetGuard free firewall.   
    NetGuard:Settings > Network options > Ignore national roaming = {on/off}   
             "Do not apply roaming rules when the SIM and mobile   
              network country are the same."   
    NetGuard:Settings > Network options > Ignore EU roaming = {on/off}   
             "Do not apply roaming rules when the SIM and mobile   
              network country are within the EU (i.e., roam like at home)."   
      
   Those who pay for roaming can set the roaming per app off, by default.   
    NetGuard:Settings > Defaults (white/blacklist) > Block roaming = {on/off}   
      
   Back to the original quest, I'm still trying to solve this problem where I   
   almost never fail, on Android, to do whatever it is that I want to do.   
      
   Only after I have Android working, do I even bother trying it on iOS.   
      
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