[Nexus 6 Android Development] BDProductions:
First attempt yields odd sms behavior

Hello,

Congratulations on producing what is the best Nexus 6 Nougat ROM I have tried so far! Thank you.

WiFi access is excellent.

3G/4G/LTE access is excellent so far.

On install it updates "Google Play," so I assume the packaged one is not the newest...

I went to install open_gapps-arm-6.0-mini-20161012 and it tells me it is not compatible because the ROM is detected as 5.1.1.

Before I tried that I noticed that SMS messages come in on the wrong contact's names, except show the correct first initial of the actual contact that sent the message... additionally, when I go to reply it goes to the wrong person...

eg: I get a message from Bob, showing up in the thread view for Joe - I respond in the same thread and Joe gets it... then I try creating a new SMS and select Bob... Joe gets it... Next I pick, for instance, William, and Bob ends up getting that message...

I have over 300 personal and business contacts, and have only been lucky that close friends have been the recipients so far...

Just reflashed SkyDragon and this time I will avoid using Titanium backup, at the expense of not being able to restore my paid apps from local backup, and I will have to manually install and setup my encrypted chat apps like Threema and Wickr. Not sure how Torque will like it.

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Must have been one of my Titanium Backup APPs causing the issue. Hope this helps someone. All I had to do was reflash SkyDragon ROM, Install Titanium Backup and License, Titanium Backup restore Device ID and reboot, TB Restore just my paid apps, recover details from Threema backup, and now everything appears to be good.

No more issues. Texts flow properly in the correct threads with the correct contact initials/images.

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I will have to run Titanium Backup at least once to restore my device ID.. I don't know of any other app that offers to do that, but it makes restoring licensed apps easier from my experience.

Anyone else seeing texts from one contact showing up in another contact's thread, prefixed by the correct initial or contact image?

I flashed, bootloader and radio, then the ROM, then installed and ran TB to restore my user apps and user data only...

This time I flashed over that with SkyDragon and will try manually installing only my paid apps, unless I get a response from the ROM developer saying it must be done a different way... I can wait a day or so before returning to Pure Nexus if there is no safe way to restore my apps in a Nougat ROM.

For what it's worth, I tried a factory image from Google, no love... 2 other AOSP N ROMs, no love... Each had failings worse than SMS being received in the wrong contact's thread... PN Nougat refused to see Verizon voice or LTE. Nutty was close, but the Play Store would FC on launch, as would GMail... everything else was fine, and none of the half dozen so called fixes helped...

Pretty happy with SD... I could live with it as my Nougat ROM at least until Android O comes along... possibly longer. :)

Will update after testing SMS without allowing Titanium Backup (Root and licensed) to do a full app restore...

I would like to have a stable ROM before I have to drive 658 miles to work without a fixed internet source for my laptop.

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UPDATE: All Good! Thanks a bunch. Will be donating when I get back from my work trip if there's no issues, which is what I expect. This ROM is actually better than the Pure Nexus Android 6.0.1 I was running since February 2016! I highly recommend this one to anyone who wants everything to work fast, smooth, no force closes or issues...

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I am hoping SD will be the ROM I end up using for the next several months to a year...

Thanks for all the time, effort, and sharing of such a nice smooth ROM.