It's not the messenger, people have sent me screen shots of texts they've sent me and I've not gotten them at all. About an hour ago I was on the phone with my friend in Utah who uses TMobile and my signal dropped to nothing (cancellation circle icon) but it came back on its own. I rebooted just to be safe and called back okay.
Basically it's radio issues for sure... 1) the signal was/is no better than what I had with JasmineROM in the usual deadzones, but 2) I cannot tolerate NEVER GETTING texts that were sent to me, it shouldn't matter whether I happened to have been in a deadzone at the time Verizon should've known and queued it. I think it may be the kernel or something..
I just switched to the vzw kernel (I'm on the 1.9 that you get PM'd by the OP poster if you can't find it on the vietnamese site that was meant for sprint, the spr kernel).
BTW when switching kernels I flash the BETA SuperSU in the OP just to be safe (it's suggested in the original ROM posting elsewhere here) and that removes the SuperSU app but it's no biggie, I just download that again from the play store and it works. I let it update the binary too using the normal method and reboot.
I have a 3rd party Chinese flip cover that works really well when recognized (I love the way it works on Marshmallow) but sometimes it doesn't detect my OPENING the cover. That never happened before. Closing, sure, but not opening. It may be my sensor but a reboot fixes it which I can still do. Just sharing in case others have such issues.