IPhone takes forever to regain signal

I work in a building that is partially underground has no iPhone reception, which is fine and I accept that. Once I go outside however, I normally get 5 bars easily, or at least I SHOULD. Many times, I'll be fiddling with my iPhone in the building and I have "No Service" then while I'm still using it, I step outside, but it sticks with No Service and takes FOREVER to come back to 5 bars.
Is there a way to make the iPhone "search" for a signal manually so I don't have to restart the iPhone or anything? Is there a way to make the iPhone search for a signal more frequently when there's "No Service"?

My phone hasn't done that in a long time, but when it did I found two things that worked.
One is to turn on Airplane Mode, then turn it off. This is also faster than restarting the phone.
The other is a lot slower - full reboot, meaning hold power and Home until the Apple logo appears (ignoring the power off slider). But doing a full reboot about once a week is good preventive maintenance and may in part be why my phone doesn't do the No Service, long search thing any more.
-dan

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My iphone takes about an hour or more to sync usually. It stays on "syncing contacts with 'Iphone'", mail accounts, and calendars for like 20-30 minutes a piece. My guess is because of my .pst file being so large. (10gb) yes i know it's huge, but i need most of everything in there for business. Is this what would be causing it to go so slowly? or is it just slow on vista? (or vista 64-bit)

Check this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
The syncing of contact information, calendar events, and bookmarks is bidirectional with the iPhone and the supported applications on your computer - by the definition of syncing.
The process is called syncing with iTunes but not all data is synced by the definition of syncing. Some data - such as iTunes content and pictures transferred from your computer to your iPhone is a data transfer process only as part of the sync process. Contact information, calendar events, and bookmarks are kept synchronized.

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It downloads.
It gets ready to backup my phone.
It starts backing up my phone.
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What is going on here? How hard is it to take an image of a few hundred MB of apps and such? Seriously. I have a few gig of songs on there too - but those haven't changed so they shouldn't have to be backed up anyway. They are already on my computer where I ripped them from CD's.
Something is bad wrong with the implementation of backing up the iPhone. It plain doesn't work right. I'm still at three bars, just popped over to check.
At this rate, the antivirus program will kick in at about 2am and probably lock the whole thing up.
P.S. Before you start, I already tried the whole "delete all your apps and reinstall from itunes and ONLY EVER install any app again from itunes - not the app store. That doesn't do SQUAT except wipe out all your high scores and settings on your apps. And give you ONE really fast backup. Then it is back to insane backup times.
REALLY - what is going on here. Is this a known problem and is there a cure, because it makes backing up the iphone a nightmare.
-Tom Steele

Rick,
Thanks for the reply. I have pared down my app list significantly and don't know what app might be responsible for the problems. I don't have Myst or AppSniper (although I do have Pandora Box...)
I guess that I expected Apple to be more immune to this sort of thing than MS because they keep a much tighter (perhaps too tight?) rein on what developers can do with their apps.
*I have found what appears to be a solution*. Or at least an improvement. I bailed on the update last night as I needed my phone this morning and I wasn't sure it would be working when I woke up.
This afternoon I tried again using a different approach.
Instead of agreeing to install 3.0.1 I decline and go into itunes. Then I click on SYNC. This does a backup that appears to go much faster (still 30+ minutes, but very typical for me and steady and sure). THEN I click on UPDATE and the process is much faster and straightforward. At least it appears to be so far. It is updating and restarting right now. I'm hopeful that it will be without problem.
-Tom Steele
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Also besides a reboot (which I feel should be done at least weekly) is he on WiFi and you are not?
A reset/reboot is:
Go to Home Screen
Press and Hold Home Button
Keep holding and press and hold Lock Button
Keep holding Both
You will see Slide to Turn Off (Don't let go to slide, just keep holding)
The phone will turn off (in time, but screen will look like it has some white lines)
Keep Holding
When you see the Apple Logo, you can let go.
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You may also wish to read this tread about reboots and odd application behavior.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5851978#5851978

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Bingo! It was the Facebook app, for me anyway.
I had noticed my backups were getting slower and slower - after first upgrading to 2.1 the slow backups of 2.0 were solved and were typically taking under a minute, but that has gradually climbed to nearly 20 minutes EVERY time I do a sync.
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You are free to work with any released SDK.
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How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
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