KFP Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Did anyone find application to use SMS message with Ericsson WWAN card on Mavericks? I search hardly for Ericsson or any OEM vendors' application on OSX. still nothing. So there is no way to read message from SIM with Ericsson WWAN card on OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFP Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 I decided to use the "hard" way to solve the problem - I asked T-Mobile to activate SIM card with Ericsson F5521gw installed on Thinkpad T420 with Mavericks 10.9.2. T-Mobile created a broadband phone number for the SIM card and also an online account for that phone line. I knew the phone number immediately during the conversation with T-Mobile representative, but temporary password for the online account is sent to the SIM card, no way to know that, even T-Mobile guy cannot tell me what it is. No SMS application for Ericsson WWAN card I can find from anywhere for MAC OSX. So I either need to install MS Windows and use a Windows SMS application to get the password from SIM, or use "AT" command on Mavericks to read the SMS message directly. I tried the later approach to solve the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFP Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Download one free MAC OSX application called CoolTerm from here and install it. CoolTerm is serial port communication software which I can use to send AT command to my broadband modem. there are a few those kinds software available for MAC OSX. I choose that because it is easy to start with. Run CoolTerm - The first thing I need to configure it to talk to WWAN card which is Ericsson F5521gw. After Ericsson F5521gw installed properly, I can check all serial devices on my machine by typing this command line in Terminal Window: ls /dev/cu.* it shows: /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem/dev/cu.WIN2012X61-COM9/dev/cu.dmmcontrol1d145/dev/cu.dmmcontrol1d148/dev/cu.pci-serial22/dev/cu.usbmodem1d144/dev/cu.usbmodem1d14A/dev/cu.wwan The last 3 items are Ericsson F5521gw, 2 of them show as dial-up modem, one as WWAN device, That exactly matches System Preference -> Network with Ericsson F5521gw (as 2 usb modems, one wwan). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFP Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 From CoolTerm menu, Select Connection->Options, for Port: choose "wwan" value from the drop down list, 115200 as Baudrate, and click OK button Then it is ready to connect to WWAN , hit Connect square icon: Everything seems good for me to communicate with Ericsson F5521gw, try my "AT" command, response "OK", Ericsson F5521gw is ready. I want to confirm and read my phone number from SIM card, by typing "AT+CNUM" in the window", it return the broadband number immediately: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFP Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 For SMS message, some modem has 2 modes to show it , Encoded(0) or Text(1) mode. others such as Ericsson F5521gw, only Encoded mode. Text mode is easy for human to read it directly. by typing AT+CMGF=?, Modem will return (0) only or (0) +(1) if there is (1) returned, AT+CMGF=1 can switch Modem to show SMS as text directly. for me, no luck for that. I can only read SMS with encoded mode, type AT+CMGL to show all messages in SIM card: I saw 3 messages, not a big deal, there is free online SMS decoder to use, copy and paste the data, decode it as text: Done, SMS messages are read and translated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFP Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 These are AT command for Ericsson modem, but most of them are industry standard, can be used for any WWAN card: Ericsson_F5521gw_AT_commands.rtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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