Various aspects described herein relate to resolving failures in digital pre-distortion (DPD) training in wireless communications. A failure during DPD training can be identified for a transceiver. One or both of a severity of the failure or a type of the failure can be determined. It can also be determined whether to perform self-recovery from the failure to continue the DPD training based at least in part on one or both of the severity of the failure or the type of the failure.