Chatty, SMS does not work - could hardware be at fault?

[AntonReiser]

In order to rule out a hardware issue, I had posted the question whether it could be a technical defect in the hardware section.

There dcinoz came up with very helpful suggestions. Here's a brief summary of

+++ THE SOLUTION: How to send SMS text messages (if it does not work on its own) +++

1. Use this command immediately after booting the phone:

Code:

mmcli -m any --command='AT+QCFG="ims",2'

2. Check if it has worked with

Code:

mobian@mobian:~$ mmcli -m any --command='AT+QCFG="ims"'
response: '+QCFG: "ims",2,0'

3. If the response is not 2,0 but 2,1 go back to 1. and try to be quicker after the restart.

4. Once the response is 2,0 you should be able to send SMS text messages.

5. To make the change permanent, open the file pine64,pinephone-1.X.toml (in my case 1.2.toml) in the directory //usr/share/eg25-manager/ and

6. replace the lines

Code:

# Enable VoLTE support
    { cmd = "QCFG", subcmd = "ims", expect = "1" },

with

Code:

# Enable VoLTE support
#    { cmd = "QCFG", subcmd = "ims", expect = "1" },
    { cmd = "QCFG", subcmd = "ims", value = "2" },

7. That's all. Good luck!

8. Apparently there's a better method with VoLTE support. I haven't tested it yet. If VoLTE support is important to you, you might want to look here.