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How to send modem AT commands

Asked by Bipin Thite

Hi.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and having Sony Ericsson w810i mobile phone.

How to send AT commands to my mobile in Ubuntu? I do it in Windows XP using a program called Hyper Terminal. Please help!

Thank you

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mak (iammak) said : 		#1

hey i have the same model and its awesome man
you can use the serial port service of your bluetooth
what do you actually wanna do?
if you want to access your mobile thru bluetooth then use gammu.

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#2

for a graphical (gui) application use wammu from Applications > Add/Remove...

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Bipin Thite (bipinthite) said : 		#3

thanks for reply.

I connect my mobile through data cable and don't have bluetooth device. I am trying to send AT modem commands to my mobile. I also have WinXP. There is a utility called Hyper Terminal in XP which allows to us to connect to any modem and can send commands to it.

I want to know how can I do it in Ubuntu? I know about a program "wvdial" but it's only for gprs connection(I think!).

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#4

So you want mobile broadband connection? Have you tried System > Preferences > Network configuration ?

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Bipin Thite (bipinthite) said : 		#5

No, I don't want to connect to Internet. I downloaded a pdf file(from Sony Ericsson web-site) which contains all the AT Command list for my mobile phone, I found it interesting.
It isn't extremely necessary though. I asked you just because of my sake of curiosity.

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Best Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#6

Found two programs, minicom and seyon. You can install them: sudo apt-get install minicom seyon
Don't ask me how they're used though, I have no idea :)

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/connect-soekris-single-board-computer-using-minicom.html

$ apt-cache show minicom
Description: friendly menu driven serial communication program
 Minicom is a clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communication program. It emulates
 ANSI and VT102 terminals, has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.

$ apt-cache show seyon
Description: Full-featured native X11 communications program
 Seyon is a complete full-featured modem communications package
 for the X Window System. Some of its features are:
  - dialing directory
  - terminal emulation (DEC VT02, Tektronix 4014 and ANSI)
  - script language
  - Zmodem

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#7

Also cutecom that has a graphical interface:
$ apt-cache show cutecom
Description: Graphical serial terminal, like minicom
 Cutecom is a graphical serial terminal, like minicom.
 It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a
 terminal to talk to their devices. It features lineoriented interface
 instead of character-oriented, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support
 (requires the lrzsz package) and hexadecimal input and output among
 other things.
 It is written using the Qt library by Trolltech (www.trolltech.com).

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Bipin Thite (bipinthite) said : 		#8

Thanks Savvas Radevic, that solved my question.

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Bipin Thite (bipinthite) said : 		#9

Actually I had flagged this problem as "Solved". But when I recently saw My Questions, it was still "Answered". I might have done something wrong at that time. I didn't notice it.
I apologize to all who replied to this question for not giving them proper appreciation on time. I always be thankful to all the people here on launchpad for their support & dedication.

Thank you very much!