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Overview

This makes outbound packet admission explicit across the queue, service, and transport layers and keeps admitted work bound to the connection or transport generation that owns it.

Rejected or stale sends no longer create dispatch evidence, response timers, optimistic state, or follow-on work. Accepted sends retain their ownership through transport admission, queue status, routing completion, cancellation, reconnects, and teardown.

The same admission boundary is carried through settings transactions and long-lived command callers so transient lifecycle rejection remains a specific, recoverable outcome rather than turning into stale timers, misleading success state, or unrelated secondary failures.

Key Changes

Transport lifecycle

  • Require transport handoff to report synchronous admission across BLE, serial, TCP, replay, mock, and inert transports.
  • Bind queued writes, delayed callbacks, heartbeat work, and shared-service operations to the transport generation that admitted them.
  • Bound framed-send queues and allow already-admitted stream frames to drain before cancellation; a forced drain timeout makes the underlying stream terminal rather than permitting partial-frame reuse.
  • Serialize BLE session retirement so profile-failure, reconnect, and explicit-close paths cannot independently clean up the same retired GATT session.
  • Keep connect/disconnect callbacks inside lifecycle ownership and prevent stale callbacks from acting on replacement sessions.
  • Reject stale serial-device selection before transport creation. A stale saved address can recover when exactly one serial device is attached; with multiple devices, the ambiguous selection is rejected instead of silently choosing the first driver.
  • Keep detached serial cleanup scoped to the transport lifetime even when its caller is cancelled during close.
  • Treat bounded close/drain failures as reported operational outcomes rather than exceptions that abandon the remaining teardown work.
  • Document and account for nested lifecycle-close budgets where one transport owns another bounded lifecycle.

Packet admission and ownership

  • Reserve packet IDs from admission through every required terminal stage so duplicate sends cannot take ownership of acknowledgements.
  • Keep the expected connection version attached to connection-owned queued packets and revalidate it immediately before dispatch.
  • Distinguish transport queueing from routing completion while keeping both stages under one pending packet owner.
  • Start response timers and record dispatch evidence only after the active transport accepts the frame.
  • Own strict-routing expiry in service scope so caller cancellation cannot strand a packet-ID reservation; a late expiry is identity-checked so it cannot affect a reused ID.
  • Correlate packet-specific queue status with dispatched work while keeping unscoped full-queue status advisory.
  • Preserve specific routing ACK/NAK, timeout, transport-stop, and send-failure outcomes instead of allowing later queue state to overwrite them.
  • Resolve persisted outgoing packets through one shared mesh-identity predicate and reject ambiguous packet or reaction matches instead of mutating an arbitrary row.
  • Keep packet and reaction persistence aligned with terminal ownership, including timeout handling for persisted ENROUTE work.
  • Keep TRANSPORT_STOPPED distinct from a known pre-dispatch rejection so callers can use dispatch evidence before deciding whether a retry is safe.

Command and settings boundaries

  • Keep queue and local-node rejection typed through command APIs instead of allowing it to degrade into a later response timeout.
  • Capture the local destination once for the lifetime of a settings transaction.
  • Require begin, staged writes, and commit handling to respect the active connection lifecycle.
  • Preserve the original edit failure when commit cleanup also fails, while retaining the cleanup failure for diagnostics.
  • Keep fixed-position removal distinct from an unavailable local node identity.
  • Treat an omitted routing error_reason as absence of a routing error instead of constructing an error result with a null reason.
  • Preserve specific routing failures through settings response windows and queued channel operations.
  • Keep position and serial-open diagnostics useful without writing raw location data or local OS-user information to logs.

Caller containment

  • Retry connection bootstrap work only while the same connected lifecycle still owns the request.
  • Bind history replay and other connection-owned follow-up work to the generation that scheduled it.
  • Keep optional telemetry, discovery, history, and widget requests from escalating expected transport transitions.
  • Prevent rejected node and configuration requests from starting optimistic state, success callbacks, or response timers.
  • Run node-management success callbacks after the guarded radio mutation so callback failures cannot be misreported as send rejection.
  • Surface localized feedback for actionable node-request rejection while leaving unexpected failures visible.
  • Keep lifecycle-aware fakes and fixtures aligned with the production admission, settings, and ownership contracts.

Testing

Added or extended coverage for:

  • unavailable/opening transports, bounded send queues, active-frame drain, close/send races, stale callbacks, replacement sessions, serialized BLE cleanup, heartbeat rejection, unambiguous single-device USB recovery, ambiguous multi-device rejection, and serial lifecycle cleanup;
  • Android serial selection/factory behavior and TCP lifecycle races in addition to the common transport suites;
  • packet-ID reservation, duplicate admission, stale connection generations, dispatch ordering, zero-ID and packet-specific queue status, ambiguous persisted identities, routing ACK/NAK, owner-independent timeout after caller cancellation, ID reuse after expiry, reconnect, and terminal persistence;
  • edit-settings begin/commit boundaries, cancellation cleanup, failure preservation, destination ownership, fixed-position rejection, and full profile installation;
  • absent versus explicit routing errors, connection-epoch invariants, and concurrent lifecycle publication using matching real-time dispatch;
  • connection bootstrap generation changes, history replay ownership, rejected node/configuration requests, optimistic side-effect suppression, telemetry/history/discovery best-effort callers, and widget refresh behavior;
  • lifecycle-aware production fakes and caller fixtures used throughout the affected service, command, persistence, and transport tests.

Merge Order

Merge this PR before #6717. Discovery restoration in #6717 uses this PR's admission-aware local settings transaction so a cleared or undispatched commit remains retryable instead of being recorded as a successful restore. #6718 is independent of this ordering.

The combined stack has also been validated together, so this ordering is about the runtime contract between #6716 and #6717 rather than resolving source conflicts.

Validation

Validated as part of the combined integration stack with an overnight soak and repeated real-device handoffs.

  • Switched between several physical radios across BLE, USB/serial, and TCP, including repeated disconnect, reconnect, and device-selection changes while the app remained active.
  • Exercised transport replacement under normal traffic rather than only idle connections. The captured run retired the previous connection and packet queue, switched per-device state, advanced transport ownership, and completed bootstrap on the replacement radio.
  • Verified normal packet and service traffic continued after device replacement rather than inheriting stale work from the previous connection.
  • Exercised packet-specific queue admission and routing completion throughout the soak, including successful queue acknowledgements and routing ACKs after transport handoffs.
  • Sent normal messages and background/service-generated traffic while changing radios and interfaces.
  • Repeated app background/foreground and connection lifecycle transitions without observing a stuck transport, stale packet appearing on a replacement radio, or lifecycle-related crash.
  • The rebuilt PR branch is green in CI after the final standalone-branch cleanup and review fixes.

The overnight soak exercised these changes together with the discovery and remote-admin stacks, including repeated remote-admin traffic across multiple nodes and interface switches, providing additional coverage of the shared connection-generation and teardown boundaries under realistic concurrent load.

Scope

  • No Meshtastic protocol, message-format, or firmware behavior changes are introduced.
  • No database schema or user-data migration is required.
  • Internal transport, packet-admission, persistence, and command contracts are updated consistently across their in-repo implementations and callers.
  • Existing reconnect and transport-selection policy is unchanged except where stale or unowned work must be rejected or admitted work must be drained safely.
  • Serial fallback is deliberately limited to an unambiguous single attached device. A stale saved address with multiple attached serial devices is rejected rather than selecting an arbitrary driver.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability of radio connections, reconnections, shutdowns, and queued sends.
    • Prevented stale connection sessions from processing packets or affecting current sessions.
    • Added clearer handling for rejected requests, unavailable local nodes, timeouts, and routing failures.
    • Fixed persistence and status tracking for outgoing messages and emoji reactions.
    • Node actions now show localized feedback when requests cannot be sent.
  • Improvements

    • Added lifecycle-aware connection status and more accurate send acceptance reporting.
    • Improved settings transactions, history replay, telemetry, discovery scans, and fixed-position removal handling.
    • Added safeguards for fan-out configuration reads and cancellation of manual writes.

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The pull request adds explicit radio queue-admission results, connection lifecycle epochs, generation-aware transport handling, packet and reaction persistence updates, transactional settings behavior, and user-facing handling for expected send failures.

Changes

Radio admission and lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Admission contracts and packet handling
core/repository/..., core/data/...
Radio sends now return admission results. Awaited sends distinguish accepted, rejected, timed-out, stopped, and failed outcomes. Packet handling tracks queue and routing stages.
Connection-scoped work
core/data/..., core/service/...
Connection versions and lifecycle epochs prevent stale requests. Post-handshake requests retry queue rejection with bounded delays and stop after lifecycle changes.
Transport teardown
core/network/...
BLE, serial, TCP, stream, replay, and mock transports gate operations, report admission, drain accepted work, and suppress stale callbacks during teardown.

Persistence and settings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Packet and reaction persistence
core/database/..., core/data/...
Outgoing packet and reaction status updates use identity-aware matching and guarded transitions. Reaction timeouts target only matching ENROUTE rows.
Settings transactions and reads
core/service/..., feature/settings/...
Settings writes stage local projections until commit. Manual channel batches support cancellation. Remote reads track fan-out routes, late responses, and superseded requests.

Failure handling and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Application feedback
feature/node/..., feature/discovery/..., feature/widget/..., core/resources/...
Expected queue and local-node failures are logged or shown through localized feedback. Discovery and telemetry refresh continue after expected request failures.
Tests and fakes
core/*/src/commonTest/..., core/testing/...
Tests cover admission results, lifecycle transitions, transport teardown, persistence guards, settings transactions, and failure feedback.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aeddb

This PR changes packet and transport lifecycle ownership across queueing, reconnect, teardown, and settings handling. Unresolved issues can expose sensitive data, misclassify routing responses, leave transports unable to restart, exceed teardown bounds, or encourage duplicate retries after admission, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NodeRequestActions
  participant CommandSenderImpl
  participant PacketHandlerImpl
  participant RadioTransport
  participant SnackbarManager

  NodeRequestActions->>CommandSenderImpl: request node data
  CommandSenderImpl->>PacketHandlerImpl: enqueue packet
  PacketHandlerImpl->>RadioTransport: trySendToRadio
  RadioTransport-->>PacketHandlerImpl: accepted or rejected
  PacketHandlerImpl-->>CommandSenderImpl: send result or exception
  CommandSenderImpl-->>NodeRequestActions: request outcome
  NodeRequestActions->>SnackbarManager: show failure feedback when rejected
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Actionable comments posted: 8

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core/data/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/data/manager/MeshConnectionManagerImplTest.kt (1)

362-383: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This test passes even without the ownership check.

setConnectionState(ConnectionState.Disconnected) triggers tearDownConnection, which cancels postHandshakeRequestsJob. The suspended moduleConfigFlow.first() therefore never resumes, so requestHistoryReplay is not called regardless of ownsPostHandshakeRequests. Revert the ownership guard in retryPostHandshakeRequest and the assertion still holds.

To cover the guard itself, let the module config arrive first, then change the lifecycle version before admission, and assert the request is not issued for the stale version.

As per coding guidelines: "For each added or changed test, check whether it would still pass after reverting the covered production code."

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In
`@core/data/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/data/manager/MeshConnectionManagerImplTest.kt`
around lines 362 - 383, The test currently exercises cancellation rather than
the ownership guard in retryPostHandshakeRequest. Emit the module configuration
first so the request can reach admission, advance the connection lifecycle
version before it is issued, then verify historyManager.requestHistoryReplay is
not called for the stale version; ensure the test would fail if the ownership
check were removed.

Source: Coding guidelines

core/network/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/radio/ReplayFuzzTest.kt (1)

87-100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Close the started transport instead of relying on scope cancellation.

transport.start() now activates the replay transport, but the test never calls transport.close(). Cancellation of backgroundScope ends the coroutines, so it does not exercise the transport teardown path this PR introduces. The same applies to the transport started at Line 130.

Wrap the exercised body in try/finally and call transport.close(), which matches the teardown convention used in the other transport tests.

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In
`@core/network/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/radio/ReplayFuzzTest.kt`
around lines 87 - 100, Update the tests that start ReplayRadioTransport,
including the cases around transport.start() and the transport started near the
later test block, to wrap the exercised body in try/finally and call
transport.close() in finally. Ensure each started transport explicitly exercises
its teardown path rather than relying on backgroundScope cancellation.
core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/SharedRadioInterfaceService.kt (1)

875-878: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Make the start-time invariant recoverable instead of permanently fail-closed.

check(...) throws when sessionOperationStates still holds an entry. Every caller of startTransportLocked swallows the exception through ignoreExceptionSuspend (connect(), setDeviceAddress(), restartTransport(), the liveness restart). One retained map entry therefore blocks every future transport start for the process lifetime, with no user-visible error and no recovery path.

The teardown side of this change already avoids that shape: removeDrainedSessionStateLocked logs the same class of invariant failure and continues. Apply the same treatment here so a diagnostic inconsistency degrades to a logged event rather than a permanent connect failure.

♻️ Suggested fail-open handling
-            check(activeTransportSession == null && sessionOperationStates.isEmpty()) {
-                "Cannot admit a transport while the previous session is still draining"
-            }
+            check(activeTransportSession == null) {
+                "Cannot admit a transport while the previous session is still draining"
+            }
+            if (sessionOperationStates.isNotEmpty()) {
+                Logger.e {
+                    "Reclaiming orphaned operation state for generation(s) " +
+                        "${sessionOperationStates.keys} before admitting generation $generation"
+                }
+                sessionOperationStates.clear()
+            }
             sessionOperationStates[generation] = SessionOperationState()
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In
`@core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/SharedRadioInterfaceService.kt`
around lines 875 - 878, Replace the fail-closed check in startTransportLocked
with the same log-and-continue handling used by removeDrainedSessionStateLocked
when activeTransportSession or sessionOperationStates violates the start-time
invariant. Preserve the diagnostic message, then allow
sessionOperationStates[generation] to be initialized so future transport starts
remain recoverable.
feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngineTest.kt (1)

600-628: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the neighbor-info request was attempted.

Both tests only assert the terminal scan state. If FakeRadioController stops honouring requestNeighborInfoFailure, or the dwell-boundary request is removed, the tests still pass. Add an assertion on the recorded request (for example a call counter or the recorded packet id) so the failure path is proven to run.

Based on learnings: "Tests must prove that the intended production path caused the side effect, not merely reproduce the final state ... prefer assertions such as call counters, issued requests, or cache writes."

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In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngineTest.kt`
around lines 600 - 628, The tests
neighborRequestQueueRejectionKeepsBestEffortScanRunning and
localIdentityLossDuringNeighborRequestKeepsBestEffortScanRunning must also
verify that the neighbor-info request was attempted. Assert the
FakeRadioController’s recorded request evidence, such as its call count or
packet identifier, while preserving the existing successful completion
assertions.

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Inline comments:
In
`@core/data/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/data/manager/CommandSenderImpl.kt`:
- Around line 242-247: Update sendPosition so its Logger.d message no longer
includes the raw ProtoPosition or any latitude/longitude data; retain only
non-location context such as the destination, or use the existing PII-safe
helper if one is available.

Apply the same fix in
`@core/network/src/jvmMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/SerialTransport.kt`
around lines 144 - 148: The permission diagnostic includes the OS username and
is later emitted through the logger.

In
`@core/domain/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/domain/usecase/settings/ProcessRadioResponseUseCase.kt`:
- Around line 84-88: Update the error handling in ProcessRadioResponseUseCase to
bind parsed.error_reason once and only construct RadioResponseResult.Error when
routingError is non-null and not Routing.Error.NONE; preserve the existing
message and routingError values for valid errors.

In
`@core/network/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/radio/TransportLifecycleGate.kt`:
- Around line 84-113: Update the close contract KDoc to state that nested close
calls are not bounded by the enclosing teardownTimeout when executed under
NonCancellable. In the teardown owners, including SerialRadioTransport and the
relevant connection lifecycle path, size teardownTimeout to cover the nested
close budget; preserve the existing BLE_TEARDOWN_TIMEOUT approach in
BleRadioTransport and ensure each owner’s outer timeout accounts for its nested
operation-drain and teardown durations.

In
`@core/network/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/radio/BleRadioTransportReconnectCrashTest.kt`:
- Around line 365-370: Update the assertion on connection.profileCalls in
BleRadioTransportReconnectCrashTest to require at least one replacement profile
call rather than exactly two, since either retry path may perform additional
attempts. Preserve the existing generation assertions and replacement-service
dispatch checks as the authoritative invariants.

In
`@core/repository/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/repository/AwaitedSendResult.kt`:
- Around line 33-34: Update the documentation for
AwaitedSendResult.TRANSPORT_STOPPED to avoid recommending unconditional retries;
instruct callers to inspect AwaitedSendResult.dispatched before retrying because
the packet may already have been received.

In
`@core/repository/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/repository/ConnectionStateHolder.kt`:
- Around line 97-101: Update ConnectionEpochs.isSelfConsistent() to reject
impossible departure evidence: require handshakesAtLastDeparture to be zero when
departures is zero, and reject lastDepartureState == ConnectionState.Connected.
Ensure these checks apply to values accepted through
ConnectionStateHolder.initialEpochs and reset.

In
`@core/repository/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/repository/ConnectionStateHolderTest.kt`:
- Around line 130-161: Update the transitionObserved wait in the concurrent
mixed transitions test to run under a real-time dispatcher, such as by wrapping
withTimeout in withContext(Dispatchers.Default), so the Dispatchers.Default
collector can complete before the deadline; preserve the existing timeout and
assertion behavior.

In
`@core/testing/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/testing/RepositoryFakesTest.kt`:
- Around line 490-501: Update the test named “FakeRadioController rejects edit
settings before running writes when begin fails” to assert the captured
EditSettingsTransactionException or remove the unused failure variable,
eliminating the compiler warning. Also replace assertTrue(blockRan.not()) with
the imported assertFalse assertion while preserving the existing behavior
checks.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@core/data/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/data/manager/MeshConnectionManagerImplTest.kt`:
- Around line 362-383: The test currently exercises cancellation rather than the
ownership guard in retryPostHandshakeRequest. Emit the module configuration
first so the request can reach admission, advance the connection lifecycle
version before it is issued, then verify historyManager.requestHistoryReplay is
not called for the stale version; ensure the test would fail if the ownership
check were removed.

In
`@core/network/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/network/radio/ReplayFuzzTest.kt`:
- Around line 87-100: Update the tests that start ReplayRadioTransport,
including the cases around transport.start() and the transport started near the
later test block, to wrap the exercised body in try/finally and call
transport.close() in finally. Ensure each started transport explicitly exercises
its teardown path rather than relying on backgroundScope cancellation.

In
`@core/service/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/core/service/SharedRadioInterfaceService.kt`:
- Around line 875-878: Replace the fail-closed check in startTransportLocked
with the same log-and-continue handling used by removeDrainedSessionStateLocked
when activeTransportSession or sessionOperationStates violates the start-time
invariant. Preserve the diagnostic message, then allow
sessionOperationStates[generation] to be initialized so future transport starts
remain recoverable.

In
`@feature/discovery/src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/feature/discovery/DiscoveryScanEngineTest.kt`:
- Around line 600-628: The tests
neighborRequestQueueRejectionKeepsBestEffortScanRunning and
localIdentityLossDuringNeighborRequestKeepsBestEffortScanRunning must also
verify that the neighbor-info request was attempted. Assert the
FakeRadioController’s recorded request evidence, such as its call count or
packet identifier, while preserving the existing successful completion
assertions.
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Ran this through a deep multi-reviewer pass (transports, repository contracts, data managers, service/UI) plus a combined-tree build with #6717 and #6718. The architecture holds up: synchronous admission is genuinely synchronous across all seven transports, terminal-outcome ownership and the DELIVERED-vs-timeout races are sound in both orders, cancellation is rethrown everywhere I traced, and the fixed-position change quietly fixes a latent presence-vs-sentinel bug (the old pos != Position(0.0, 0.0, 0) compared time too, so removals with a non-matching timestamp were sent as set_fixed_position). Moving sendToRadio to RadioTransportWriter to stay under the detekt function cap without baseline edits was the right call. I also verified the octopus merge of all three PRs compiles and passes the overlapping modules' tests, so no merge-queue surprises in any order.

Two comments worth a response before or after merge, neither blocking:

  1. The single-device USB fallback was narrowed, not preserved. SerialRadioTransport.resolveSerialDevice is now devices[address] ?: devices.values.singleOrNull(), where main used firstOrNull(). With a stale saved address and two or more serial devices attached, the old code self-healed onto the first driver; the new code fails with "Serial device not found" and isAddressValid goes false. Reasonable hardening, but the PR text says the historical fallback is kept. Either revert to firstOrNull or own it as a deliberate change in the description.

  2. Packet-ID reservation leaks when a strict-await caller is cancelled mid-flight. awaitAdmittedPacket deliberately keeps ownership on caller cancellation, but the 30s routing timeout lives only in the cancelled caller's coroutine. If the queue stage completed ACCEPTED and the routing verdict is lost, the queueResponse entry stays non-terminal until disconnect, so the ID is rejected as DuplicateId for the rest of the connection. That contradicts the PacketHandler KDoc's promise that a completed ID may be reused by a retry. The reservation wants an owner-independent expiry.

Non-blocking observations from the sweep: stopPacketQueue drains at coroutine-run time rather than call time, so a packet admitted on a fast reconnect in that window can get stamped TRANSPORT_STOPPED (parity with main's async structure, but a generation check inside the drain block would close it); the settings transaction is not pinned to a connection version (the begin/write/commit callers are back-to-back today so the FIFO saves you, but a future suspending editSettings block could span connections); the commit-departure heuristic treats dispatched-then-departed as durable, which is the right call for the LoRa reboot case but worth remembering it applies staged projections on inference; and TCP is the one transport without a backlog cap on launchConnectionOperation.

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@jamesarich Thanks for the deep pass. Both points make sense.

The serial fallback narrowing is intentional. With one attached serial device, a stale saved address can still recover unambiguously. With multiple devices, I don't want a stale address to silently select whichever driver happens to be first, so I'll update the description to state that explicitly rather than claiming the previous fallback is fully preserved.

The cancelled strict-await reservation is a real gap. Caller cancellation should not release ownership immediately because the admitted packet may still complete, but the reservation also shouldn't depend on that caller remaining alive to reach its terminal timeout. I'll move that expiry under owner-independent lifecycle ownership and keep the existing terminal/routing race semantics intact.

The other observations are useful, but I agree they don't need to expand this PR's scope.

Publish correlated connection lifecycle evidence and make raw transport handoff return explicit admission.

Gate BLE, TCP, serial, replay, mock, and stream operations through bounded lifecycle ownership so teardown cannot race admitted work. Track shared-service operations per transport generation, preserving strict drain invariants across reentrant restarts and preventing stale releases from consuming a replacement session count.

Retain legacy single-device USB recovery and keep bounded teardown operational failures non-throwing.
Model each awaited packet as a single pending owner with distinct transport-queue and routing stages.

Start the response window only after an active transport admits the frame, reserve packet IDs until every required terminal stage completes, correlate zero-ID queue status only with dispatched queue waiters, and preserve strict routing ACK/NAK semantics from meshtastic#6603.

Persist terminal outcomes from the same ownership state so stop, rejection, timeout, and routing failure cannot be mistaken for successful queue admission.
Translate packet-admission failures into explicit expected command failures instead of silently continuing after an unowned send.

Capture local-destination ownership once per settings transaction, require each staged write and commit boundary to depart through the active connection lifecycle, and keep fixed-position removal distinct from an unavailable local identity.

Verify profile installation propagates fixed-position rejection only after closing the edit transaction, including the complete profile-installation caller path.
Treat queue rejection and temporarily unavailable local identity as expected lifecycle outcomes at long-lived and user-facing command callers.

Retry connection bootstrap requests only while the same connected lifecycle owns them, keep optional history, telemetry, discovery, and widget refreshes from escalating transport transitions, and preserve specific routing failures across settings timeouts and queued channel batches.

Present actionable node-request feedback, resolve localized text through suspend-safe resources, and add regression coverage proving rejected work does not start optimistic state, stale timers, or follow-on requests.

Keep affected UI and service tests deterministic around virtual time, ViewModel disposal, Compose lifecycle work, and asynchronous notification rendering.
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@jamesarich Follow-up is complete.

The serial behavior is intentional and the PR description now says so directly: a stale saved address can recover only when there is exactly one attached serial device. With multiple devices, the selection is ambiguous and is rejected rather than silently choosing the first driver.

Strict-routing expiry is now owned by service scope after dispatch instead of by the awaiting caller. Cancelling that caller still does not release ownership prematurely, but the 30-second terminal expiry now completes the pending response and releases the packet ID independently. The late-expiry path retains the pending-response identity check so it cannot affect a newer owner that reused the same ID. Coverage pins both an active strict waiter timing out and a cancelled waiter releasing the ID for retry after expiry.

I also made the merge order explicit: #6716 should land before #6717 because discovery restoration relies on this PR's admission-aware local settings commit boundary. I left the other non-blocking observations out of this already-large change.

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