Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that allow a wireless device to reinitialize operating software of the wireless device due to a quantity of failed communication network access requests. In a particular embodiment, a wireless device transfers a plurality of access requests to a communication network during a period of time. The wireless device monitors responses to the plurality of access requests to determine a quantity of failed access requests during the period of time. Then, the wireless device determines whether the quantity of failed access requests is greater than a threshold value. If the quantity of failed access requests is greater than the threshold value, then wireless device reinitializes the operating software of the wireless device.