Pathik Shah

This tutorial will explain How to receive and read SMS messages via AT commands on a GSM modem or a mobile phone.

Open Microsoft Hyperterminal or Minicom (Linux) after connecting your phone / GSM modem to the PC.

Type this to check if your GSM modem supports the SMS text mode.

AT+CMGF=1 [ENTER]

It should return OK if it does.

Next, type

AT+CPMS=? [ENTER]

This will display the message storage modes your GSM modem / mobile phone supports.

These are the types of message storage modes

SM – SIM Card
ME – Phone Storage
MT – SIM Card + Phone Storage
BM – Broadcast Messages
SR – Status Reports

Next, select the message storage mode.

AT+CPMS=”MT” [ENTER]

This will read the messages from the SIM as well as device memory.

Now you can list the messages in the selected storage.

Type

AT+CMGL=”ALL” [ENTER] to display all the messages.

AT+CMGL=”REC_READ” [ENTER] to display the read messages.

AT+CMGL=”REC_UNREAD” [ENTER] to display the unread messages.

The messages will be listed in this format -

+CMGL: “index”,”status”,”mobile_number”,,”date,time”
text message content

You can also read the message index to read the SMS.

AT+CMGR=5 [ENTER] will read the 5th SMS.

To delete the 5th message, type

AT+CMGD=5 [ENTER]

This tutorial will explain How to send SMS messages via AT commands using a GSM modem or a mobile phone.

Open Microsoft Hyperterminal or Minicom (Linux) after connecting your phone / GSM modem to the PC.

Type this to check if your GSM modem supports the SMS text mode.

AT+CMGF=1 [ENTER]

It should return OK if it does.

Next, type

AT+CMGS=”+911234512345″ [ENTER]

Message text to sent by SMS

[CTRL]+[Z]

where “+911234512345″ is the recipient’s phone number. After typing the message, press [CTRL+Z] to send the message.

If the message was sent successfully, the GSM modem will respond with a message ID like

+CMGS:XX

This is another ingenious way to use Google’s SMS Channels for India. If you want your Orkut scrap updates to be delivered directly to your mobile via SMS instead of having to login to Orkut everytime to check for scraps, you can use this tutorial.

Just log on to your Orkut Profile and get your Orkut User ID / UID. You can do that by right clicking on your Profile pic or name > Copy Link address / Copy Shortcut.

Just cut out the UID part of the that link, it is the 20 digit number at the end of your profile URL. – http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Copy that 20 digit number and append it to this string.

http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid= such that it becomes http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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This is a list of the Best Free SMS sites in India. Most of them have some shortcomings like the insertion of ads, limited SMSes per day, less characters, delayed sms sending, but they do work. If one of them doesn’t work, try the other sites.

Best Free SMS Sites in India

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1. 160By2.com

http://www.160by2.com/

Registration required
80 chars
Ads inserted

2. Way2SMS.com

http://www.way2sms.com

Registration required
110 chars
Ads inserted

3. M-Alerts.net

http://www.m-alerts.net

Registration required
100 chars
Ads inserted
SMS by your mobile number
Earn by receiving Ads
Earn by Referrals

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RSS feeds have traditionally been delivered using a RSS reader / browser or using email. But now, you can also send your Blog’s RSS feeds to subscribed users via SMS. This tutorial is specific to Indian users, but you can tweak it to work for your country too.

This will make use of Google’s new SMS Channels features which is free in India.

To use this, you just need to have a working RSS feed on your blog, which is available by default if you are on Blogger or WordPress. To have customized RSS Feeds, use FeedBurner.

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