diff --git a/lib/logic/session_timer.dart b/lib/logic/session_timer.dart
index 44e54e7..0b99cc1 100644
--- a/lib/logic/session_timer.dart
+++ b/lib/logic/session_timer.dart
@@ -240,11 +240,17 @@ class SessionTimer extends ChangeNotifier with WidgetsBindingObserver {
     }
   }
 
-  Future<void> disconnect({String reason = 'User requested'}) async {
+  // release is false when the caller intends to re-attach to the same session,
+  // as the SOCKS5 Reconnect does: handing it back here would destroy the very
+  // session the follow-up connect(resume: true) is about to ask for.
+  Future<void> disconnect({
+    String reason = 'User requested',
+    bool release = true,
+  }) async {
     // Only here, not in _doDisconnect: this is the one path the user actually
     // asked for. Unawaited so a slow or unreachable API never holds up the
     // teardown.
-    unawaited(HivemindService.releaseSession());
+    if (release) unawaited(HivemindService.releaseSession());
     await _doDisconnect(reason);
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart b/lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart
index 0f0fe32..e91f3ad 100644
--- a/lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart
+++ b/lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class _ConnectionModeTileState extends State<ConnectionModeTile> {
 
     setState(() => _reconnecting = true);
     try {
-      await timer.disconnect();
+      await timer.disconnect(release: false);
       if (!mounted) return;
       if (await vpn.connect(resume: true)) {
         if (!mounted) return;
diff --git a/test/session_lifecycle_regression_test.dart b/test/session_lifecycle_regression_test.dart
index e282042..3819ced 100644
--- a/test/session_lifecycle_regression_test.dart
+++ b/test/session_lifecycle_regression_test.dart
@@ -131,4 +131,22 @@ void main() {
       reason: 'exactly one call site',
     );
   });
+
+  test('SOCKS5 Reconnect re-attaches instead of handing the session back', () {
+    final timer = File('lib/logic/session_timer.dart').readAsStringSync();
+    final mode =
+        File('lib/screens/settings/in_settings/connection_mode.dart')
+            .readAsStringSync();
+
+    // Reconnect repairs an orphaned proxy by re-attaching to the session the
+    // device already holds. Releasing it on the way out would destroy the very
+    // session the follow-up connect(resume: true) then asks for.
+    expect(timer, contains('bool release = true'));
+    expect(timer, contains('if (release) unawaited(HivemindService.releaseSession())'));
+    expect(mode, contains('timer.disconnect(release: false)'));
+    expect(mode, contains('vpn.connect(resume: true)'));
+
+    // And it must not hand back a second support top-up for the same session.
+    expect(mode, contains('timer.start(resetSupportClaim: false)'));
+  });
 }