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doc/Flash-boot-defect article removed (no longer relevant) This article is no longer relevant because the issue in question only affected one (1) defective FCDEV3B board which was not and never will be sold.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
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1 FreeCalypso User Phone Tools are a new software addition to the FreeCalypso
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2 family. These tools are programs that run on a Unix host computer such as a
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3 GNU/Linux PC or laptop and communicate with a FreeCalypso phone or modem via
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4 the standard AT command interface, rather than any of the formerly proprietary
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5 interfaces specific to TI's internal architecture. The following tools are
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6 currently available:
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8 fcup-at Issues an arbitrary AT command given on the command line.
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10 fcup-settime Issues AT+CCLK command to the target to set its clock to the
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11 host computer's notion of local time.
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13 fcup-smdump Retrieves a dump of SMS records (received, sent or stored
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14 messages) from the FC device's SMS storage (currently SIM
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15 storage; ME storage may be implemented in the future),
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16 optionally deleting them from the severely space-limited
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17 SIM/ME storage afterward.
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19 fcup-smsend* Tools for sending outgoing SMS from a host computer through a
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20 FreeCalypso phone or modem and/or writing such outgoing SMS
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21 into the FC device's SMS storage.
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23 fcup-smwrite Debug and development tool: writes arbitrary message records
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24 into the FC device's SMS storage (currently SIM storage) in any
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25 of the possible 4 states, with arbitrary incoming or outgoing
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26 SMS PDU content.
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28 Because these tools communicate with the target via standards-defined AT
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29 commands, in theory they ought to work with any AT-command-speaking 3GPP phone
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30 or modem and not just our own FreeCalypso. However, experience has shown that
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31 in the case of the common proprietary implementations, practice does not match
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32 theory: when I (Mychaela) tried these same AT commands against a random
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33 off-the-shelf proprietary modem (Huawei E303 USB stick modem for 3G), the
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34 following problems were seen:
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36 * The essential AT+CMGL=4 command for retrieving the full set of SMS records
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37 from SIM storage in PDU mode appears to be broken: all I got was a hang.
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38 Its text mode counterpart AT+CMGL="ALL" produces incomplete output.
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40 * Qualcomm/Huawei's implementation of the AT command interface does not allow
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41 AT+CSCS to be set to "HEX"; our fcup-smdump implementation uses this setting
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42 so that the phonebook names returned along with SMS PDUs in the +CMGL
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43 responses can be parsed reliably no matter what weird characters they might
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44 contain.
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46 * Setting AT+CSCS to "8859-1" is not supported either; this setting is used by
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47 our fcup-smsend and fcup-smsendmult tools when sending in text mode.
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49 * Sending outgoing SMS with fcup-smsend in PDU mode (which does not touch
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50 AT+CSCS) works in that the message goes out, but the tool complains afterward
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51 because the echo after the ^Z is different from what our tools expect.
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53 Because of these quirks, our FC User Phone Tools officially work only with our
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54 own FreeCalypso phones and modems, and are not expected to work against various
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55 proprietary implementations. Let us not forget that the broken and buggy nature
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56 of the common proprietary implementations is the very reason why we need
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57 FreeCalypso in the first place.
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59 Target interface options
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60 ========================
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62 Our fcup-* tools can communicate with the AT-command-speaking target in one of
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63 two ways:
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65 * The default is the standard AT command interface over a dedicated UART. As
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66 of this writing, the only FreeCalypso device that provides a full-featured AT
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67 command interface of this kind is our FCDEV3B modem, but the ultimate goal of
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68 the project is to build our own end user phone handset (a Libre Dumbphone)
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69 that will also provide a full-featured AT command interface on its USB port
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70 via a built-in CP2102 or FT232R chip.
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72 * As a dirty hack, one can run FreeCalypso GSM fw on some alien hw targets,
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73 currently Motorola C139 and Pirelli DP-L10. In this hacked-up configuration
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74 there is no dedicated UART available for a standard AT command interface, but
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75 there is a hack that allows a limited subset of AT commands to be passed over
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76 the RVTMUX binary packet interface provided by the running FreeCalypso GSM fw.
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77 Our fcup-* tools can work with such targets to a limited extent.
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78
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79 The AT-over-RVTMUX mechanism was originally invented back in 2015 as a
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80 development aid, and was never intended for production use or to support any
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81 kind of end user functionality. One of its limitations is that the strings
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82 that are sent to ATI via this interface are limited to 254 characters, whereas
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83 sending or writing SMS in hex format requires longer strings. As a result, SMS
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84 sending and writing functionality via fcup-smsend* is limited when a crippled
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85 Motorola or Pirelli hw target is used instead of proper FreeCalypso hardware.
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86
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87 All fcup-* tools take the following common command line options for selecting
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88 the AT command target interface:
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90 -B baud Valid only when -p is also given; selects a different baud rate
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91 than the default 115200 bps.
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93 -n Dry run debug mode with no target interface at all: the AT
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94 commands which would otherwise be sent to the target are simply
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95 printed on stdout.
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97 -p ttyport Names the serial port to be used to talk to the target.
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99 -R Use the AT-over-RVTMUX interface instead of the standard AT
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100 command interface over a dedicated UART.
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101
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102 -X program Use the specified external program as the AT target
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103 communication back-end; read the source code for the details.
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105 -R and -p options interact as follows:
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107 Neither -R The standard dedicated AT command interface is used;
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108 nor -p FC_GSM_DEVICE= environment variable needs to be set
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109 to point to the serial port.
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110
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111 -p only The standard dedicated AT command interface is used;
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112 the serial port is named with the -p option.
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114 -R only AT-over-RVTMUX interface is used; the fcup-* tool connects
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115 to an already running rvinterf process.
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117 -R and -p AT-over-RVTMUX interface is used; a new rvinterf process
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118 is launched to talk RVTMUX on the specified serial port.
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119
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120 Retrieving and decoding stored SMS
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121 ==================================
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122
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123 As of this writing, our current FreeCalypso GSM firmware supports only SIM
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124 storage for SMS, i.e., there is no working mechanism currently for storing SMS
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125 records (received and sent messages) in the phone's or modem's own flash file
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126 system. The capacity of this SIM SMS storage is determined by the SIM issuer,
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127 but it is typically quite limited, on the order of 20 to 30 messages.
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128
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129 The model adopted for FreeCalypso is that incoming (and possibly saved outgoing)
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130 messages initially accumulate in the SIM storage as they come in, and then the
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131 user periodically transfers them to her larger host computer, simultaneously
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132 deleting them from the SIM storage to reclaim the limited space. The retrieval
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133 of stored SMS from FreeCalypso GSM devices is accomplished with our fcup-smdump
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134 utility; unlike SMS sending/writing, this operation works exactly the same
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135 whether the FC GSM device offers a full-featured AT command interface or only
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136 AT over RVTMUX. SMS retrieval is always done in PDU mode, and the output from
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137 fcup-smdump contains raw SMS PDUs in the form of long hex strings. A separate
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138 utility called sms-pdu-decode then does what its name says.
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139
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140 The intended mode of usage is something like this:
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141
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142 fcup-smdump -d >> long-term-sms-log
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143
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144 The -d option to fcup-smdump tells it to delete the retrieved messages from the
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145 SIM or future ME storage; this option should only be used when the output is
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146 redirected into some kind of longer-term storage. In the above model the file
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147 named long-term-sms-log becomes what its name says as new messages retrieved
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148 from the FC GSM device get added to it; the format will look like this:
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149
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150 Received message:
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151 XXXXXX...
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153 Received message:
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154 XXXXXX...
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155
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156 Sent message:
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157 XXXXXX...
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158
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159 Stored unsent message:
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160 XXXXXX...
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162 Received message:
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163 XXXXXX...
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164
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166 idea is that the complete record of all received and sent messages should be
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167 stored on the user's big computer in raw PDU form, rather than decoded, and the
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168 decoding utility sms-pdu-decode should be invoked by the user (with the message
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169 log file as input) as needed for reading these messages.
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170
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171 The message decoding utility sms-pdu-decode does its best to decode and show
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172 everything without dropping any bits: in addition to the actual decoded message
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173 characters and the From/To address (the "end user" content of the message), it
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174 decodes and shows the SC address, the first octet, the MR octet for outgoing
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175 messages, PID and DCS octets, the SC timestamp or the validity period fields,
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176 and the UDH bytes if present. However, some bits can still be lost in the
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177 decoding, which is why it is important to archive messages in the raw PDU form:
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178
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180 an octet boundary and to round any UDH to a septet boundary are not decoded.
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181
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182 * If the user data portion of the message is 8-bit or compressed data (per the
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183 DCS octet), it is shown as a raw hex dump, which is lossless, but if it is
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184 GSM7 or UCS-2 text (GSM 03.38 character encodings), the characters are
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185 converted to the user's character set (plain ASCII only by default) for
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186 display, and some characters may not be displayable.
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187
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188 Character sets and encodings
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189 ----------------------------
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191 By default, sms-pdu-decode only emits 7-bit ASCII characters in its output; any
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192 GSM7 or UCS-2 characters which fall outside of this plain ASCII repertoire are
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193 displayed as the '?' error character and the presence of such decoding errors
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194 is indicated in the Length: header. This conservative default behaviour can be
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195 modified as follows:
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196
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197 -e option extends the potential output character repertoire from 7-bit ASCII to
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198 8-bit ISO 8859-1. Any 8859-1 high characters are emitted as single bytes,
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199 i.e., are NOT encoded in UTF-8 - this option is intended for non-UTF-8
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200 environments.
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201
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202 -u option extends the potential output character repertoire to the entire Basic
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203 Multilingual Plane of Unicode, and changes the output encoding to UTF-8.
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204
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205 -h option causes the user data portion of every message to be displayed as a
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206 raw hex dump; in the case of GSM7-encoded messages, this hex dump shows the
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207 unpacked septets.
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208
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209 Composing and sending outgoing SMS
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210 ==================================
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211
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212 When used with a FreeCalypso GSM device that offers the full AT command
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213 interface (currently only the FCDEV3B modem), the primary SMS sending/writing
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214 tool fcup-smsend offers the following capabilities:
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215
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216 * Sending outgoing messages in either GSM7 or UCS-2 encoding;
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217 * Sending either single or long (concatenated) SMS;
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218 * Message body input in ASCII, ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8;
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219 * Message body input either on the command line or on stdin;
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220 * Any messages sent through this tool (single or concatenated) may be
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221 multiline, i.e., may contain embedded newlines;
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222 * Messages sent in GSM7 encoding can contain ASCII characters [\]^ and {|}~
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223 - the tool is smart enough to do the necessary escape encoding.
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224
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225 The default and preferred AT command interface mode for sending/writing SMS is
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226 PDU mode, which works great when the GSM device provides a proper AT command
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227 interface. However, when a message of maximum or near-maximum length is being
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228 submitted to the modem in PDU mode, the hex string that needs to be sent is
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229 longer than what the crippled AT-over-RVTMUX mechanism can handle, thus if you
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230 are using crippled Motorola or Pirelli hardware, you need to give the -t option
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231 to fcup-smsend or fcup-sendmult, telling these tools to use text mode instead
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232 of PDU mode on the AT command interface. In this text (-t) mode the following
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233 restrictions apply:
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234
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235 * Only single SMS can be sent, not concatenated;
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236 * Only GSM7-encoded messages can be sent, not UCS-2;
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237 * No multiline messages can be sent, i.e., no newlines in the message body;
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238 * ASCII characters [\]^ and {|}~ won't be sent correctly - GSM 07.05 text mode
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239 drops them.
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240
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241 But if you have to use FreeCalypso on crippled hardware, the -t option does
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242 allow you to send GSM7-encoded SMS of the full maximum length of 160 characters.
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243 If you attempt to use PDU mode (no -t option) with an AT-over-RVTMUX back-end
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244 (-R option), the send or write operation will fail if the generated PDU is
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245 longer than 127 octets; the length of the generated PDU depends not only on the
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246 message body length, but also on the length of the destination address.
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247
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248 The invokation syntax is as follows:
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249
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250 fcup-smsend [options] dest-addr [message]
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252 The destination address must be given on the command line; the address digits
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253 may be optionally followed by a comma and an address type byte, either decimal
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254 or hexadecimal with 0x prefix. The default address type is 0x91 if the number
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255 begins with a '+' or 0x81 otherwise. If the message body is given on the
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256 command line, it must be given as a single argument; if no message body argument
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257 is given, the message body will be read from stdin. Any trailing newlines are
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258 stripped before SMS encoding.
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259
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260 The following options are supported, in addition to the common target interface
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261 options listed earlier:
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263 -c Enables concatenated SMS. Concatenated SMS will be sent only
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265 otherwise plain SMS will be sent whether -c is given or not -
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266 but the -c option enables the possibility of sending
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267 concatenated SMS.
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270 concatenated SMS reference number to be used. The number can
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271 be either decimal or hexadecimal with 0x prefix.
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275 was sent as single or concatenated, and in how many parts.
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276 -q suppresses this additional output.
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277
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278 -t Use text mode instead of PDU mode on the AT command interface.
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279 This option is incompatible with -c and with -U, and introduces
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280 other restrictions listed above.
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282 -u By default, if the message body input contains any 8-bit
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283 characters, they are interpreted as ISO 8859-1. With -u they
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285 for GSM7 output encoding, and it is implemented by converting
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286 the input first from UTF-8 to 8859-1, and then from 8859-1 to
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287 GSM7 - thus all UTF-8 input characters must fall into the
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288 8859-1 repertoire, and it is not currently possible to send
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289 GSM7-encoded messages containing the few Greek letters or the
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290 Euro currency symbol allowed by GSM 03.38 encoding.
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291
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292 -U Send message in UCS-2 encoding instead of GSM7. Any 8-bit
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293 characters in the message body input are interpreted as UTF-8,
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294 and the entire Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode is allowed.
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295
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296 -w By default the outgoing message is sent out on the GSM network
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298 first written into SIM or future ME SMS storage with AT+CMGW,
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299 then sent out on the GSM network with AT+CMSS.
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301 -W Write only, not send: the message is written into storage with
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302 AT+CMGW and no further action is taken. The modem's +CMGW:
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303 responses with message storage indices are forwarded to stdout.
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304 With this option the destination address argument can be a null
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305 string or omitted altogether.
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306
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307 Concatenated SMS reference numbers
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308 ----------------------------------
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309
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310 Every concatenated SMS transmission needs a reference number, and this number
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311 needs to increment from one concatenated SMS to the next, to help message
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312 recipients sort out which is which. If the reference number is not given
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313 explicitly with -C, fcup-smsend creates (opens with O_RDWR|O_CREAT) a file
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314 named .concat_sms_refno in the invoking user's $HOME directory; automatically
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315 incrementing reference numbers are maintained in this file. The initial seed
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317 followed by simple linear incrementing; these reference numbers do not need to
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318 be random in any kind of cryptographically secure sense.
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319
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321 ===============
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323 As an alternative to sending concatenated SMS, one can use the fcup-smsendmult
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324 utility to send several single (no UDH) messages in one batch. This utlity
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325 supports both text and PDU modes (PDU mode is still the preferred default when
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326 it can be used), and when PDU mode is used, it supports both GSM7 and UCS-2
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327 output encodings just like fcup-smsend. The messages to be sent are read from
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328 stdin, and each input line produces a new message.
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329
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330 The entire batch of messages can be sent to a single recipient, or each message
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331 in the batch can have its own individual destination address. If the
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332 destination address is given on the command line, each input line read from
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333 stdin is just a message body; if no destination address is given on the command
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334 line, each input line must have the following format:
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335
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336 <dest addr><white space><message body>
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337
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338 -t, -u, -U, -w and -W command line options are unchanged from fcup-smsend.
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340 If you have to use FreeCalypso on crippled hardware, fcup-smsendmult -t can be
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341 a viable alternative to sending concatenated SMS, as each message in the batch
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342 can be up to the maximum limit of 160 characters.
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343
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344 fcup-smsendpdu
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345 ==============
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346
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347 This utility sends out SMS PDUs that have been prepared externally; it only
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348 works in PDU mode, which limits its usefulness to high-end FreeCalypso hardware
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349 with a full AT command interface. The PDUs to be sent out are read from stdin,
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350 one long hex string PDU per line; one can send either a single message or a
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351 batch. Because the destination address and all content details are encoded in
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352 the PDU, the tool does not care if the messages are going to the same recipient
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353 or to different recipients, nor does it care if they constitute a concatenated
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354 SMS transmission or not. -w and -W options work the same way as in fcup-smsend
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355 and fcup-smsendmult.
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356
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357 fcup-smwrite
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358 ============
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359
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360 This utility is a debug and development tool; it differs from fcup-smsendpdu in
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361 the following ways:
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362
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363 * fcup-smsendpdu can send messages out with AT+CMGS, write them into memory
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364 with AT+CMGW, or do a write-then-send sequence (-w option) with AT+CMGW
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365 followed by AT+CMSS. fcup-smwrite only issues AT+CMGW commands.
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367 * fcup-smwrite passes a second argument to AT+CMGW that sets the message state
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368 to any of the possible 4 values; fcup-smsend* -W put them in the "stored
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369 unsent" state.
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370
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371 * The input to fcup-smsendpdu is just PDU hex strings; the input to
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372 fcup-smwrite needs to have the same format as fcup-smdump output in order to
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373 indicate what state each message should be written in.