EC25 Force retry (Registration denied)

How can I force a new connection attempt if the EC25 is in the “Registration Denied”/3 state?
The card is obviously not trying to re-establish a connection to the base station.
Previously I did this via AT+CFUN=0 and AT+CFUN=1 and that worked.
However, this obviously wears out the flash (according to analysis by Quectel) which leads to hundreds of broken EC25 cards.