Ubuntu Touch with OTA updates

[LMalilil]

Maybe I don't understand how these updates are supposed to work. How did we go from a phone that worked to a useless paperweight that we cant even text with? Four updates in a row now SMS does not show up in the text threads

Its called a regression and it's very common in software development, especially software with such a high level of complexity. Changing one dependancy to improve something or fix something pertaining to that dependancy can have unintended consequences for the thing that it was dependant on, in this case the messages app.

If you want stability, switch back to stable. If you want a bleeding edge device that has a high chance of becoming a useless paperweight, stick with dev. 

Sorry to be blunt and potentially obvious but that just the situation.

No its all good man. I was just puzzled cause every developer update since I got it has had full sms capability. Was starting to think I was just having issues with my particular device. So I haven't had a single update in the Stable channel. I have OTA 3 from Release Candidate and it seems to work until the phone sleeps. is that the stable version?