Methods, systems, and devices for real time error recovery are described. The method may include a wireless device, such as a secondary wireless device, communicatively linked with another wireless device, such as a primary wireless device, and may include the wireless device identifying a first nonce value that is set based on a first packet counter value associated with a data packet stream between a source wireless device and the other wireless device, identifying a second nonce value that is set based on a second packet counter value associated with the data packet stream, receiving a first packet from the data packet stream, determining a sequence number for the first packet based on receiving the first packet, and decrypting the first packet using the first nonce value or the second nonce value based on the sequence number for the first packet.