Operating system name and version: Windows XP SP3 / Cygwin 1.7 beta
Version of smsd: 3.1.5
Smsd installed from: sources
Name and model of a modem / phone: Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem
Interface: USB (internal usb2serial)

Sending messages just works, no problem there. Receiving messages didn't work at first, communication went this way:

2009-11-02 19:42:38,7, GSM1: -> AT+CPMS? 2009-11-02 19:42:38,7, GSM1: Command is sent, waiting for the answer 2009-11-02 19:42:39,7, GSM1: <- +CPMS: "SM",1,15,"SM",1,15,"SM",1,15 OK 2009-11-02 19:42:39,6, GSM1: Used memory is 1 of 15 2009-11-02 19:42:39,6, GSM1: Trying to get stored message 1 2009-11-02 19:42:39,7, GSM1: -> AT+CMGR=1 2009-11-02 19:42:39,7, GSM1: Command is sent, waiting for the answer 2009-11-02 19:42:39,7, GSM1: <- OK <-- cut (was OK for CMGR 2-14) --> 2009-11-02 19:42:47,6, GSM1: Trying to get stored message 15 2009-11-02 19:42:48,7, GSM1: -> AT+CMGR=15 2009-11-02 19:42:48,7, GSM1: Command is sent, waiting for the answer 2009-11-02 19:42:48,7, GSM1: <- +CMS ERROR: 321 (Invalid memory index) 2009-11-02 19:42:48,6, GSM1: No SMS received (reading interrupted)

I tried to set check_memory_method to use CMGL (tried all values), but that didn't work either:

2009-11-05 21:55:15,6, GSM1: Checking memory size 2009-11-05 21:55:15,7, GSM1: -> AT+CMGL=4 2009-11-05 21:55:15,7, GSM1: Command is sent, waiting for the answer 2009-11-05 21:55:16,7, GSM1: <- +CMGL: 0,1,,29 0791246030500200040C912470337644940000901150123555400BEEF21D442FCFE9A09802 OK 2009-11-05 21:55:16,3, GSM1: CMGL handling error: message 0, Invalid message number 2009-11-05 21:55:16,6, GSM1: No SMS received

Finally I tried to change the code to start with AT+CMGR=0 instead of AT+CMGR=1 and it helped:

diff -Naur smstools3-orig/src/smsd.c smstools3-my/src/smsd.c --- smstools3-orig/src/smsd.c 2009-05-31 19:21:18.000000000 +0200 +++ smstools3-my/src/smsd.c 2009-11-02 20:06:07.046875000 +0100 @@ -3420,7 +3420,7 @@ } if (!(*line2)) - found = readsim(sim, line1, line2); + found = readsim(sim-1, line1, line2); // 3.1.5: Should stop if there was timeout: if (found == -2)

Any comments about this? Is there any other way how to achieve AT+CMGR starting from 0? I read the whole smstools website very carefully, but couldn't find any. While this works for me with one modem, it'll break if I use another one that expects indexes starting from 1.

Last little problem is with enexpected input from modem. Lines like these are appearing in log:

2009-11-02 19:06:53,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^BOOT:21159041,0,0,0,6 2009-11-02 19:14:36,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^RSSI:18 2009-11-02 19:15:41,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^RSSI:21 2009-11-02 19:48:59,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^RSSI:31 ^SRVST:1 ^MODE:3,3 ^SIMST:1,0 2009-11-02 19:50:27,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^BOOT:21159041,0,0,0,6 ^RSSI:20 2009-11-02 20:14:23,3, GSM1: Unexpected input: ^BOOT:21159041,0,0,0,6 ^RSSI:25

At first sight it looks like some status reporting. Is it safe to just ignore it?

Thanks in advance.

Turns out that I didn't read so carefully after all. I din't notice that there are actually two more commands instead of one (CMGD and CMGL). Noticed just after I sent the message. Typical.

With check_memory_method=2 receiving messages works.

Thank you for an exemplary description of the problem.

There is a modem setting memory_start = 0 available. This should work with your setup.

I check those check_memory_method and unexpected input -troubles later.

You're right, memory_start exists and works perfectly. I somehow missed it among all those other options. Thank you.

And here is quick "works for me" change to make CMGL work:

diff -Naur smstools3-orig/src/smsd.c smstools3-my/src/smsd.c --- smstools3-orig/src/smsd.c 2009-05-31 19:21:18.000000000 +0200 +++ smstools3-my/src/smsd.c 2009-11-05 23:54:06.765625000 +0100 @@ -1940,7 +1940,8 @@ break; } - if ((mnumber = atoi(p +6)) <= 0) + mnumber = strtol(p +6, NULL, 0); + if (errno==EINVAL) { errorstr = "Invalid message number"; break;

The CMGL test has a bug. It was seen at May 2009 and I have missed to include the fix in 3.1.5 . Next version will have your fix with a test if (errno == EINVAL || mnumber < 0).

Sob wrote

At first sight it looks like some status reporting. Is it safe to just ignore it?

It's a statistics data from the modem, for example RSSI is a value of signal strength.

This kind of data should be disabled. Unfortunately I do not know how to disable it, and only thing I found with fast googling was a question in Huawei Technical Forum, about how to disable it, but there was no answer.

Those messages may cause troubles if they are received while smsd is waiting an answer for some command. Hopefully this modem does not send those messages when a sending of SMS is initiated, otherwise sending may fail and smsd will then retry. In the worst case message can be sent more than once, because of an incorrect answer from the modem.

init = AT^CURC=0

is the right answer. Took just over an hour of googling.