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Submitted on: 3/13/2010 8:56:25 AM
By: Emilio Ficara
Level: Intermediate
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Compatibility:VB 6.0
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This program allows you to save on a text file all SMS messages that are received from a mobile phone. The phone is connected to a serial port and is seen as a modem. The modem must support the AT commands for SMS. The tests were performed on a Siemens M50 mobile phone connected to the serial port or USB via USB-RS232. It should work with all phones that support AT commands for SMS. When launched, the program asks for permission to proceed with acceptance of responsibility by the user. If you agreed, the program creates the file comm.ini in the working directory and initializes the serial port as COM1. If you use another port, edit the above file with notepad and change the number depending on your hardware. When you launch the program, only the test button is enabled; clicking the button, you run the script that's stored in the file testcmd.txt. The text lines of that file are a series of commands that are sent to the modem to see if it's able to do the job. The user can change these commands to run a different model of modem. The lines that begin with ! are commands and not expect immediate response, the other lines are in the order: data transmitted to the modem and the expected answer. For the answer, it's enough if the script line is PART of modem string; i.e. if 'OK', the program accepts as valid ANY modem answer string that has 'OK' inside. If all commands in 'testcmd.txt' run successfully, then the Start button is enabled so you can activate the log procedure. The output file, called smslog.txt, will contain all the SMS read from the cellphone and reside in the directory where you installed the program. The selection box called 'Delete', if activated, will erase the SMS from your mobile phone once it has been appended to the file. This option is disabled by default to allow efficient testing of the system without having to send every time a new SMS.
In the SMS messages are theoretically available some symbols of Greek alphabet. They could not be represented in the same character set as the other symbols, so these will be replaced by spaces and will not be readable in the log file. I apologize to the friends of Greece!
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See Voting Log | | | | Other User Comments |  3/9/2010 5:21:15 AM: im a beginner
Is it possible to send SMS through this application?
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| 3/11/2010 8:51:36 PM: Emilio Ficara
hello, no, this code just reads SMS from cellphone in PDU format and logs to text file. A PDU encode function and some accessories are needed to sen SMS, but it's not the purrpose of this program :-)
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| 3/14/2010 1:49:19 PM: T.Jackson
You dabble in a bit of ASM do you Emilio?
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| 3/15/2010 9:06:32 AM: Emilio Ficara
Hello, I worked hard on ASM for microcontrollers like 6502, 68000, Z8, TMS7000, ST6 and many others. On the PC I used ASM only for a music player game, about 10 years ago. under DOS environment. Take a look at my site http://ficara.altervista.org for more infos, bye :-)
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| 3/16/2010 1:13:44 PM: T.Jackson
Yeah I could tell by your coding style. Lot of great arcade games made using the 68000 CPU. It make me laugh a bit that we now need Pentium CPUs running at 3.0GHz to achieve the same thing! I used to repair arcade game boards many moons ago.
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| 3/20/2010 4:52:25 PM: Emilio Ficara
I received a message about this software not working. The program really works, if you respect all the specs. The phone must be able to work with the AT commands extension for SMS. The initial TEST command must terminate with your telephone number written in the low left box. Note that if you use USB-RS232 interfaces it's good practice to set the properties for NOT use the FIFO buffers, or reduce anyway the latency introduced by such devices. The source code provided worked fine with an home-made RS232-Siemens M50 serial cable connected to notebook serial connector COM1, but you can easily modify the source if there are problems with USB. Simply increase the timeouts after verifying the serial connection. It's fundamental that you see in the text box the transmitted and received messages. If you don't see messages from or to the telephone, there is something wrong on your serial connection.
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