Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) obtains, from a first cell, a first downlink reference timing and a first reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, wherein the first RSRP measurement is a first reference RSRP, determines that the first downlink reference timing has changed based on a cell reselection from the first cell to the second cell performed while in a radio resource control (RRC) non-connected state, and obtains, from the second cell, while in the RRC non-connected state, based on the first downlink reference timing having changed more than a threshold, a second downlink timing and a second RSRP measurement, wherein the second RSRP measurement is a second reference RSRP.