How to test modem hardware ? (Receiving SMS malfunction)

Perhaps this thread can help: I can no longer recieve sms messages

Your message buffer may be full.

You can interact with some functions of the modem with mmcli. Try:

sudo mmcli -m any --messaging-list-sms

This should list messages in your buffer that have not been fully received. Or so I understand it.

You can delete them with:

sudo mmcli -m any --messaging-delete-sms=[number]

Or you could try to read the data to a file with:

sudo mmcli -s [number] --create-file-with-data=/path/to/the/output/file

Deleting them should clear up the buffer and allow new messages to be received.

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