SparkFun LTE CAT M1/NB-IoT Shield - SARA-R4, sending SMS messages to Android

Wireless & IoT Cellular
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Hello,

I am currently trying to send an SMS message to an Android phone with the SparkFun LTE CAT M1. The board has a hologram SIM card and is registered in the AT&T mobility provider. The code used is the example code 01_SMS_Send in the Arduino library. I am currently testing this on an Arduino Uno before moving it over to the main Arduino Mega project I have planned.

The current issue is that the board will send the SMS, this is confirmed on the hologram website, but will not be received by the Android phone. I have tested a few different numbers with no success. Hologram shows that SMS was sent but nothing is received. I also gave the board a phone number through hologram in case certain phones auto block spam numbers.

Has anyone had these issues before? I currently am having trouble fixing it and would really appreciate the help!

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Double check all of the steps here https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/lt … am-message - if everything still looks correct, perhaps try the receive example instead and see if it receives correctly?

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I followed the hookup guide to connect the shield to LTE and the Arduino. I don’t think I have tried the receive example. I will try that today to see if it works. I have tried the send hologram example as well and nothing shows up on the hologram website.

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I could be wrong about this but I think hologram SMS messages go through an overseas provider and your carrier blocks them thinking they are spam.

At least I believe that’s the problem I had years ago while trying to send a text through hologram.

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Interesting, how were you able to fix it? I thought buying s phone number for the shield would solve that issue but i don’t know if it did.

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I don’t recall ever fixing it. :frowning: At least not on Hologram.

Even with a US phone number, I think SMS still come in internationally. You might check with your cellular provide to see if they have a work around.

I do think I was able to make it work by putting my carriers SIM into the shield though. Again, it was a long time ago and I’m a bit foggy on what did/didn’t work.

Hopefully this is somewhat helpful or gets you a but further. I did find the link below, that might be useful.

https://support.hologram.io/hc/en-us/ar … ram-device