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I am no longer receiving any text messages no matter what type…please help…I’m not very linux savvy…what code can I type in to check/fix this? TIA

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Oh dear. You’d need to provide more info to properly troubleshoot this - too many variables to know what could be going on. I suggest starting with a couple of older threads about similar situations and see if they might help or give clues (or rule stuff out). Take a look at:
I can no longer recieve sms messages and
Sometimes I don't receive the text messages and
Librem 5: can no longer receive SMS messages or calls and
Sending SMS messages stopped working - how to debug?

And: is everything else, like calling and mobile data working? Did something happen or did you install something?

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Thank you for responding…
calls receiving and sending fine
i can text out and it’s received
I just found out i can receive group chat texts

I cannot receive single texts from one person…but like I said I can send them.

no updates no changes…completely random.
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when this happens to me, here’s what I type into the terminal to get all the text messages that have remained in memory:
sudo mmcli -m any --messaging-list-sms

Then the terminal will give you the number of the remaining text messages.

You can delete them by typing :
sudo mmcli -m any --messaging-delete-sms=(write here the number of the text to be deleted. 1 at a time)

I used to do that a lot. Now I delete them regularly and it never happens again. I always get my text messages now.

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thanks…here’s what it says…said it earlier when i tried the old messages on here…
We trust that you have received the usual lecture from the local system administrator. it usually boils down to these three things.

  1. respect the privacy of others.
  2. think before you type
  3. with great power comes great responsibility

what is this???

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then it says (sudo) password for purism:

i then attempt to type my phone password…won’t let me type numbers…

not sure what other password it is referring to… my account?

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By default, the user account password is 123456.

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thank you… it’s weird…it won’t let me type anything when it asks for the password numbers or letters

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update:
i typed this code:

$ mmcli -m 0 --messaging-list-sms

the other codes didn’t seem to work…and it didn’t like “sudo” at alll…

I now have a list of messages…that I am guessing I need to delete? sigh…

so…I tried to delete…and I typed it without sudo, said to specify a modem, so i typed sudo and then it’s asking for a password… which it then won’t let me type anything…

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Do you realise that for security reasons it isn’t going to echo the password on the screen? Just type your password in blind and touch Enter.

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ok…it seems to be working… the only thing that varied from all the advice was the original code to pull up the stuck messages… that was different… appreciate your help

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