Back on Google Play Store
It looks like persistence did pay off in the end, as the latest attempt at publishing a new version of iSMS2droid finally resulted in an approval of all the required permissions, which means the app
Category: Release
iSMS2droid v0.12.9
Version 0.12.9 has just been uploaded to Google Play! This release should fix the issue where a previously failed (e.g. encrypted) database would still be reused, even if a different database (e.g. unencrypted) was selected