Short Message Service Information

Last updated: January 3, 2008

This section is applicable to the lab application and to a test application with the required feature license.

When the F5 (Short Message Service ) on Call Control 3 of 3 menu is pressed, the Short Message Service Information screen (see Short Message Service Information Screen ) appears. It consists of five windows:

To clear the information on the SMS Status and the received SMS message, see Clearing the SMS Info/Status .

Short Message Service Information Screen

Mobile-Terminated Message

The Mobile-Terminated Message window is a scrolling display which allows viewing of the message contents you entered to be sent to the MS (see Creating/Editing the Mobile-Terminated Message Contents ).

Five rows, up to 80 user input characters can be displayed at a time. Four of the rows, each containing up to 20 characters, are used to show the message contents. One row shows the integer value of the Character Index and a cursor represented by a caret (^) pointing to the character specified by the Character Index (see Enter/Edit Message Contents ). Note that the character index value starts from 0 (zero).

The scrolling indicators (^ and v) are shown when more of the user input message is available both above and below the displayed portion of the message. To scroll the displayed portion of the message to view other portion of the message, change the setting in Character Index (see Enter/Edit Message Contents ).

Mobile-Originated Message

The Mobile-Originated Message window is to display the contents of the last received SMS message from the mobile station. The message can be displayed in ASCII or Hex format which is controlled by the setting of Display Format (see Display Control ). To clear the information shown in this window, see Clearing the SMS Info/Status .

The display is broken into 5 rows, each containing up to 20 characters, to allow for displaying a maximum of 100 characters at a time. If there are characters preceding the 1st row displayed, there will be a caret (^) shown on the upper-right of the window. If there are characters following the last row displayed, there will be a caret (v) shown on the lower-right of the window. To view the entire message, change the setting of Row Index (see Display Control ) to scroll the displayed portion of the message.

Mobile-Terminated SMS Info

This window displays the current parameter settings included in the SMS messages to be sent to the MS.

Some of these parameters are set from the Mobile-Terminated SMS Parameters menu (see Mobile-Terminated SMS Parameters ).

The Message Length (see CALL:SMService:MTERminated:MESSage:LENGth? ) indicates the length of the desired message in encoded characters to be sent to the mobile station. See How Does the Test Set Build the Mobile-Terminated Message? for details.

Mobile-Originated SMS Info

This window (see Short Message Service Information Screen ) displays the parameters included in the received SMS message sent from the MS. To clear the information in this window, see Clearing the SMS Info/Status .

SMS Support : shows the value you set in the SMS Support field of the Mobile-Originated SMS Parameters menu (see SMS Support Control ). See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:PROTocol .
Msg Count : indicates the number of the SMS messages received from the MS since last clear (see Clearing the SMS Info/Status ). See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:COUNt? .
Teleservice : indicates the teleservice of the received SMS message sent from the MS. Note that if the teleservice "Reserved for Carrier Specific Teleservices" is received, this result will be updated and all other SMS parameters of the received SMS message will be cleared and set to their default values. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:TELeservice? .
Dest Addr : indicates the destination address of the SMS message received from the MS. Either ASCII or Hex display format is determined by the Display Format (Message/Addresses) setting (see Display Control ). The Dest Addr field allows for displaying up to 13 characters. If the address is greater than 13 characters, a "..." is included in the displayed string to indicate that the entire result is not displayed. To get a complete address, use CALL:SMService:MORiginated:DADDress:ASCii? or CALL:SMService:MORiginated:DADDress:HEX? .
Dest Addr Encod : indicates the encoding type of the destination address of the SMS message received from the MS. It reflects the DIGIT_MODE field of the Destination Address parameter in the SMS message. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:DADDress:ENCoding? .
Priority : indicates the priority level of the SMS message received from the MS. It reflects the PRIORITY field in the received SMS message (see Priority Level Settings ). If no priority field is included in the received SMS message, the Undefined is displayed. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:PRIority? .
Call-Back Num : indicates the call-back number of the SMS message received from the MS. It's represented in either ASCII or Hex format determined by the Display Format (Message/Addresses) setting (see Display Control ). Up to 13 characters are displayed. If the address is longer than 13 characters, a "..." is included in the displayed string to indicate that the entire result is not displayed. To get a complete address, use CALL:SMService:MORiginated:CBNumber:ASCii? or CALL:SMService:MORiginated:CBNumber:HEX? .
Call-Back Encod : indicates the encoding type of the call-back number of the SMS message received from the MS. It reflects the DIGIT_MODE field of the Call-Back Number parameter in the SMS message. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:CBNumber:ENCoding? .
Msg Encoding : indicates the encoding type of the SMS message received from the MS. See Message Encoding for a list of encoding type. Note that "Other" corresponds to the value of "Reserved" for the MSG_ENCODING field in the standard 3GPP2 C.S0015-A. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:MESSage:ENCoding? .
Msg Length : indicates the number of encoded characters in the last received SMS message from the MS. It represents the value of the NUM_FIELDS field of the User Data subparameter. See CALL:SMService:MORiginated:MESSage:LENGth? .
The Msg Length and the Msg Encoding determine the number of characters in the Mobile-Originated Message window. For example: the received message is in UNICODE encoding type (identified by UNICODE shown in the Msg Encoding field) and the message length is 20 (20 shown in the Msg Length ). If Display Format (Message/Addresses) is set to Hex (see Display Control ), the number of characters of the received SMS message displayed in the Mobile-Originated Message window is 80 since 4 hex characters represent one UNICODE character (see Message Encoding ).

SMS Message Acknowledge Info

This window provides an indication of:

SMS Status: the current status of the SMS processing. See SMS Status Description for details.
MS Ack Cause Code: the value of the MS Ack cause code as well as the associated string (see MS Ack Cause Code & String ) upon receipt of an SMS acknowledgment from the MS (current Status shows MS Ack). If the Status shows other than 'MS Ack', this field will be empty.

To clear the information in this window, see Clearing the SMS Info/Status .

MS Ack Cause Code & String
MS Ack Cause Code	MS Ack Cause String
NAN	"" (Empty string)
0	Address vacant
1	Address translation failure
2	Network resource shortage
3	Network failure
4	Invalid Teleservice ID
5 to 31	Other network problem
32	No page response
33	Destination busy
34	No acknowledgment
35	Destination resource shortage
36, 48 to 63	SMS delivery postponed
37	Destination out of service
38	Destination no longer at this address
39 to 47	Other terminal problem
64	Radio interface resource shortage
65	Radio interface incompatibility
66 to 95	Other radio interface problem
96	Encoding problem
97	SMS origination denied
98	SMS termination denied
99	Supplementary service not supported
100	SMS not supported
101	Reserved
102	Missing expected parameter
103	Missing mandatory parameter
104	Unrecognized parameter value
105	Unexpected parameter value
106	User Data size error
107 to 255	Other general problems