diff --git a/src/MeshService.cpp b/src/MeshService.cpp
index a09b80186..e874685bb 100644
--- a/src/MeshService.cpp
+++ b/src/MeshService.cpp
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ void MeshService::handleToRadio(std::string s)
             break;
         }
     }
+    else {
+        DEBUG_MSG("Error: ignoring malformed toradio\n");
+    }
 }
 
 void MeshService::sendToMesh(MeshPacket *p)
diff --git a/src/mesh-pb-constants.cpp b/src/mesh-pb-constants.cpp
index 45a203b60..0b4f4647d 100644
--- a/src/mesh-pb-constants.cpp
+++ b/src/mesh-pb-constants.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ bool pb_decode_from_bytes(const uint8_t *srcbuf, size_t srcbufsize, const pb_msg
     pb_istream_t stream = pb_istream_from_buffer(srcbuf, srcbufsize);
     if (!pb_decode(&stream, fields, dest_struct))
     {
-        DEBUG_MSG("Error: can't decode protobuf %s\n", PB_GET_ERROR(&stream));
+        DEBUG_MSG("Error: can't decode protobuf %s, pb_msgdesc 0x%p\n", PB_GET_ERROR(&stream), fields);
         return false;
     }
     else