So now it is getting weird. Last night I noticed the phone sitting there with the blue light on. It was frozen, so I powered off and on. Then I heard some notification tones and some of the messages that had been sent to the phone the previous day appeared. That’s interesting I thought. So rebooted again and another message came in. I rebooted again and another. I did this a couple more times and finally got no more messages. So then I tried sending a message to it and my wife did. I didn’t get those messages, despite rebooting several times. This morning, again after rebooting multiple times, I have yet to receive those two messages.
Needless to say, I did not have these issues using the exact same SIM card on my Android phone.
There have been so many packages put on in the last few days I don’t know which if any might be the cause of this issue. I did look at dpkg.log but nothing jumped out at me.