Comment by rickdeckard

yes, valid guess, I should have extended the quote.

The page describes that this part is resolved by putting the SIM into a non-Android device to receive the queued messages and acknowledge to the network.

To then recover the device it only vaguely mentions "adb commands" and "factory reset", but I can't find a description what actually needs to be done on the device.

I guess the specific question is: The message database that is corrupted due to this issue, is this DB owned by (and stored as part of) com.android.phone?