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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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61
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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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89
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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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98
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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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104
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105 -R and -p options interact as follows:
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106
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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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113
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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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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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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.