How to read SMS messages on a mobile phone. Note that this has been tested to work on a Sony-Ericsson T610 and should work on similar phones (T68,T68i,T630 at least). Other phones may not use the same commands.

1. Connect a usual
2. Use the ATE0 command to turn off echoing
3. Use the AT+CPMS? command to find out the sms memory status
4. If you get a response like +CPMS: "SM",0,20,"SM",0,20,"ME",39,70 then you need to use AT+CPMS="ME","SM" to switch to phone instead of SIM memory.
5. Use the command AT+CMGF=1 to switch to text mode for SMS reading (otherwise you won't understand them)
6. To read a specific message use AT+CMGR=i where i is the message index
7. To read all messages use AT+CMGL="ALL" (you can use "REC UNREAD","REC READ","STO UNSENT" or "STO SENT" instead of "ALL" to only see messages in that catagory).