Modem in failed state, not sending/receiving SMS

[brb78]

I have a PP Braveheart on Arch Phosh that had worked fine for almost 2 years on Verizon's CDMA network. Calls, SMS, and now even MMS worked. Occasionally the inbound SMS would get hung up, but clearing the modem cache by connecting to the modem and running 

Code:

AT+CMGD=0,4

resolved that. Recently I wrote a systemd service/timer that ran

Code:

echo "AT+CMGD=0,4" > /dev/ttyUSB2

every hour. Seems my issues have arisen since then. Now when I try to manually clear the cache it just returns

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AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4
AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4
AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4
AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4
AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4
AT+CMGD=0,4AT+CMGD=0,4

repeatedly in minicom. I tried flashing biktorgj modem firmware to "refresh" my modem, but it gets hung at

Code:

Sending AT+QFASTBOOT...
< waiting for any device >

and detects no fastboot devices.

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lsusb

returns

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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2c7c:0125 Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. EC25 LTE modem

So the modem is there, just not responding to me in the way I have become familiar with.

It seems maybe the modem may be the source of these SMS issues, but I'm not sure how to resolve it if its not responseive to minicom, atinout, or fastboot. Any thoughts?

also

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sudo mmcli -m any -e

returns

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error: couldn't enable the modem: 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Error.Core.WrongState: modem in failed state'

I have tried restarting eg25-manager and rebooting. How might I get out of this failed state?