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[Suchindra Chandrahas <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks sturmflut :)

This is actually the functionality that I wanted (ie., calling/sending 
SMS using commands). Will try this out

Thanks and Regards,
Suchindra Chandrahas

On Tuesday 10 November 2015 06:40 PM, sturmflut wrote:
> Hey Suchindra Chandrahas,
>
>
> On 09.11.2015 16:52, cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I have a BQ Aqueris E5 HD (Ubuntu Edition). I want to detect that phone
> > as a GSM modem (to send AT commands) in my ubuntu 15.10 desktop.
>
> I don't think the baseband module inside the MediaTek chipset is
> directly connected to the USB controller in the "normal" operating mode.
> There are some special engineering tools like MTK Catcher, but AFAIK no
> "standard" AT command interface visible to the USB host computer.
> Android-based devices don't talk AT at the operating system level, but
> RIL, and a proprietary driver converts the RIL commands to
> vendor-specific commands for the modem.
>
> What you can do is enable ADB or SSH on the phone, connect to it using
> "adb shell"/"phablet-shell" or SSH and then use the ofono component
> running on the phone to do anything you want to. There are many example
> scripts in
>
> /usr/share/ofono/scripts/
>
> to send SMS, make a call etc. If you look at them you will find that
> it's mostly python scripts issuing D-Bus calls, so you can easily build
> your own logic using the ofono D-Bus API documented at
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/ofono/ofono.git/tree/doc
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> cheers,
> Simon