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Short Message Service - [GSM, mobile-systems]

Short Message Service, or Short Messaging Service is a system, that enables mobile phone/cellphone users to send and receive text messages.

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How can I send mobile text message from terminal?

I've just lost my phone. I know it's here in my house cause I used it last night and my bluetooth speakers will connect to it this morning. How can I text my phone using bash? Then the phone notification will sound and I can find my phone. Note: I…
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Desktop SMS client in Ubuntu

Hi I am looking for some kind of script/software that can help me to send SMS from my Ubuntu machine . A desktop client/application actually by using web services which we use to send sms like way2sms.com or 160by2.com etc.
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How can I send SMS from Ubuntu to cell phones?

I'm tired of paying for my cell phone. It's just a small glorified computer and anyone wanting to contact me can contact me when I'm home. I would, however, be willing to pay small fee for the ability to use sms text messaging using my internet on…
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How to export SMS and contacts from cell phone to ubuntu

I am trying to export my text messages and my contacts from a cell phone(an Adroid Samsung Galaxy mini and a Sony Ericsson w810i) to my ubuntu laptop. Firstly I tried using Wammu and I was easily able to export my text messages from the Sony…
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send&receive sms messages from Ubuntu, using a built-in sim slot + sim card

I have a laptop on which I run Ubuntu 18.04, the laptop has a built-in sim slot and I have a sim card that I use for mobile broadband. Is there any software that I can use to send and receive sms messages, using the sim card that I also use for…
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Ubuntu Phone: Sending messages to multiple contacts over messaging-app

Since i changed my phone number, i want to send most of my contacts a sms with my new number. On Ubuntu Phone this is very unconvient because the application has to switch to the contact register for every name i want to add. With over 100 of…
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Make and receive calls on Ubuntu using an external android phone

Is there any way that I could use my old Android device by connecting it via USB or even using the wireless LAN and make/receive calls and traditional text messages (SMS) on my laptop running Ubuntu?
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Reading and replying to SMS on Linux

I'm using Ubuntu 24.10 and love it! The only thing I miss about Windows 11 is the phoneLink, witch connected my phone and laptop and allowed me to reply and receive and send text mesages for my Android Google Pixel 8. What are the options? Thanks so…
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Sending a SMS from KDE Connect in Kubuntu 18.04

I set up KDE Connect on Kubuntu 18.04. Ping and the File Explorer are working fine from the desktop. I am able to recieve, read and respond to SMS. However, I have no clue how I can send an SMS, when I try to start the process from the…
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How to use mmcli to send sms?

As questions says, I want to send sms using mmcli. As ubuntu already has mmcli installed, I connected my phone via USB, enabled USB debugging(I also enabled usb tethering but I don't know if that is necessary) but mmcli still cant recognize it as…
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SMS delivery reports

The Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu edition has no option for SMS delivery reports within the SMS settings. How I can configure this option?
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Where are the Call History and Telegram secret chats stored?

I am working on the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone and I am interested in finding out where the Phone Call history is stored. On a similar post I saw that the SMS are stored in this directory ~/.local/share/history-service/ but there I can't seem to…
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Import SMS/MMS on Ubuntu Touch

I currently have an Android phone, and I recently ordered a BQ Aquaris 4.5 Ubuntu Touch Edition. I wonder if there is a way to import SMS/MMS from my Android phone, to my BQ Aquaris 4.5... I know we can import contacts, but I don't know about SMS…
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Command to send SMS from terminal Using Kannel + SMPP

I have Installed the kannel on my server, configured the kannel file as per the requirement. Started the Bearerbox and SMSBox, both boxes are running fine. Now I want to check if the SMS is being pushed or not? Any one having knowledge kannel + SMPP…
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Text messaging and calls don't work on Ubuntu Touch dev preview

I just got Ubuntu Touch on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm really thrilled about its design concepts and its beautiful UI. However, text messages and calls don't work. Isn't this supposed to work already? Could this be because I'm in Germany? Maybe this is…
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