A wireless communication recovery method and a corresponding communication device are described. In the wireless communication recovery method, a connection failure of a radio access technology (RAT) is detected. Further, the detected connection failure is categorized based on a network level at which the connection failure has occurred. The RAT at the corresponding network level is then disabled for a time period based on the categorization of the connection failure and service in the RAT is recovered based on thresholds for the categorized failure levels.