Baud rate issues SM5100B GSM shield

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I received the SM5100B GSM “http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9607” last week and just got around to testing it out. I am testing it out using a program that tells me that state of the module. when the communication starts it spits out a lot of garbage but not all garbage. for instance,

Instead of getting a clear •+SIND: 1 return i get something like this…+sÿÿÿÿdfÿ just gibberish. But most of the time I end up getting nothing.

Does this sound indicative of a baud rate error?

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I had what seems to be the same problem. In my case, it was set to 115200 baud. I was able to connect to it using an FTDI module and then was able to set the baud to 9600 by sending the proper commands.