I have a MultiTech EDGE Modem (Model: MTCBA-E) which identifies itself as a SIEMENS model MC75 modem via the AT commands which you don't appear to have, but things seem to work fine in PDU mode. When I try and switch it to TEXT to send/receive, it fails because it doesn't support the 8859-1 character set. There is a good reason for that I believe, in that the standard Character Set for GSM is GSM 03.38 (7 bit, also referred to as GSM alphabet or SMS alphabet).
Here are a couple of translation tables. http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/default_alphabet.html http://embeddedfreak.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/java-gsm-0338-sms-character-set-translator/ The larger reason, I suppose, of why I was trying TEXT mode is I'm occasionally getting back exceptions when receiving messages. The message I'm getting back is 100% always the same (temporarily just hitting a shortcode with 'help' which always give me the same results). Exception in thread "SMSLib-AsyncMessageProcessor : gsm_modem3" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1937) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessagesPDU(ModemGateway.java:541) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessages(ModemGateway.java:208) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver $AsyncMessageProcessor.run(AModemDriver.java:878) I'm also getting some errors in the logfile that I don't really understand why I'm getting. I'm using Netbeans with JDK6, with RXTX on Windows XP Pro (32-bit) over a USB->Serial adapter with the above mentioned modem. 07-22-10 13:45:32 [DEBUG] GTW: gsm_modem3: READ PDU: 07914140540510F00405813624F200F1d170223154528AA0CF6508D40C9F7520Ee5B0E4297D970D03D4D4783CeE1343B0F42BFE5EFF9F80DeFCF592038BB1C9E9741E33P9B0D8AB970389CEB8693B9S4311CCC059AD6C5F3B13C0DA7A7DF6E507A0E12C85CB9DCABFD7681A465383B0F9A529F5010FD0D1A87DDE332DB056ACECF2672981E06C9C3F4F21CD40EE74161389C9D7781A46577F93E07C960B05C0B566BC96E 07-22-10 13:45:32 [ERROR] GTW: gsm_modem3: Unhandled SMS in inbox, skipping... java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "3P" at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java: 48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:458) at org.ajwcc.pduUtils.gsm3040.PduUtils.pduToBytes(PduUtils.java:1009) at org.ajwcc.pduUtils.gsm3040.PduParser.parsePdu(PduParser.java:169) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessagesPDU(ModemGateway.java: 554) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessages(ModemGateway.java:208) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver $AsyncMessageProcessor.run(AModemDriver.java:878) 07-22-10 13:45:32 [ERROR] GTW: gsm_modem3: ERROR PDU: 07914140540510F00405813624F200F1d170223154528AA0CF6508D40C9F7520Ee5B0E4297D970D03D4D4783CeE1343B0F42BFE5EFF9F80DeFCF592038BB1C9E9741E33P9B0D8AB970389CEB8693B9S4311CCC059AD6C5F3B13C0DA7A7DF6E507A0E12C85CB9DCABFD7681A465383B0F9A529F5010FD0D1A87DDE332DB056ACECF2672981E06C9C3F4F21CD40EE74161389C9D7781A46577F93E07C960B05C0B566BC96E 07-22-10 13:11:18 [DEBUG] GTW: gsm_modem3: READ PDU: 07914140540510F00005813624F200F10170222183938AA0CF6508D40C9F7520E35B0E4297D970D03D4D4783C8E1343B0F42BFE5EFF9F80D2FCF592038BB1C741E3309B0D8AB970389CEB8693B964311CCC059AD6C5F3B13C0DA7A7DF6E507A0E12C85CB9DCABFD7681A465383B0F9A529F5010FD0D1A87DDE332DB056ACECF2672981E06C9C3F4F21CD40EE74161389C9D7781A46577F93E07C960B05C0B566BC96E 07-22-10 13:11:18 [ERROR] GTW: gsm_modem3: Unhandled SMS in inbox, skipping... java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 326 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1934) at org.ajwcc.pduUtils.gsm3040.PduUtils.pduToBytes(PduUtils.java:1009) at org.ajwcc.pduUtils.gsm3040.PduParser.parsePdu(PduParser.java:169) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessagesPDU(ModemGateway.java: 554) at org.smslib.modem.ModemGateway.readMessages(ModemGateway.java:208) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver $AsyncMessageProcessor.run(AModemDriver.java:878) 07-22-10 13:11:18 [ERROR] GTW: gsm_modem3: ERROR PDU: 07914140540510F00005813624F200F10170222183938AA0CF6508D40C9F7520E35B0E4297D970D03D4D4783C8E1343B0F42BFE5EFF9F80D2FCF592038BB1C741E3309B0D8AB970389CEB8693B964311CCC059AD6C5F3B13C0DA7A7DF6E507A0E12C85CB9DCABFD7681A465383B0F9A529F5010FD0D1A87DDE332DB056ACECF2672981E06C9C3F4F21CD40EE74161389C9D7781A46577F93E07C960B05C0B566BC96E I'm also seeing some warnings dealing with an ignored InterruptedException. Not sure if this is normal or not. 07-22-10 13:11:26 [WARN ] GTW: gsm_modem3: Ignoring InterruptedException in Queue.peek(). java.lang.InterruptedException at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver$CharQueue.peek(AModemDriver.java: 559) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver.getResponse(AModemDriver.java:331) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver.getResponse(AModemDriver.java:312) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver.getResponse(AModemDriver.java:355) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver.getResponse(AModemDriver.java:312) at org.smslib.modem.athandler.ATHandler.isAlive(ATHandler.java:131) at org.smslib.modem.AModemDriver$KeepAlive.process(AModemDriver.java: 681) at org.smslib.threading.AServiceThread.run(AServiceThread.java:117) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SMSLib User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smslib?hl=en.
