kdeconnect-cli not sending SMSes

[Simon Redman]

Hi Ashley,

v1.4.0 of KDE Connect is extremely old. I would recommend updating.

We try (quite hard) to maintain backwards-compatibility but it is 
occasionally unsuccessful. I suspect that is the most likely explanation 
here.

The easiest way to check would be to test a newer version of the desktop 
app (maybe in a VM). If it works in the new version, then it's pretty 
clearly a compatibility problem.

In order to fix the problem, you could connect both the phone app and 
the desktop app to a debugger to see why the packet requesting to send 
an SMS is not being processed. Most likely there's some mistake on the 
Android side where it's no longer respecting those old packets.

Thanks,
Simon

On 6/7/21 8:25 PM, Ashley Manly wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> I'm using 1.4.0 on the desktop and laptop.
>
> I tried the desktop SMS GUI and it takes an age to transfer all my 
> messages (sounds about right). It didn't send any messages, but read 
> them OK. It was flakey though, as it died a few times. "Segmentation 
> fault".
>
> I am intending to try a different phone, but haven't been able to get 
> one away from their owner... yet.
>
> Thanks for your help. I'll write again when I have tried another phone.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ashley
>
> On 8/6/21 11:15 am, Simon Redman wrote:
>> + mailing list
>>
>> Hi Ashley,
>>
>> What version of the desktop app are you running? Can you try the 
>> latest release version?
>>
>> Does the desktop sms messaging app work for you?
>>
>> Are you able to test with another device? I don't think I've heard of 
>> any device not being able to send sms because of manufacturer 
>> strange-ness.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On June 7, 2021 5:12:35 PM PDT, Ashley Manly <ashley at manlys.id.au> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello Simon,
>>
>>     I'm stuck. As before I tried the latest upgrade to 1.17 and once again,
>>     SMSes no longer send. Unfortunately there was no going back to 1.14. I
>>     suspect it is a Xiaomi security permission problem, except that I ended
>>     up giving it all permissions and it still won't work.
>>
>>     Incoming SMSes are working. Ping works. Everything except actual sending
>>     of SMSes. As mentioned below, it doesn't fail with an error, it just
>>     finishes but nothing has been sent.
>>
>>     Do you have any suggestions how I can find the source of the problem?
>>
>>     Kind regards,
>>     Ashley
>>
>>     On 27/10/20 11:27 am, Ashley Manly wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Simon, I really appreciate your kdeconnect-cli. I have
>>         integrated it into my scripts for running my business and
>>         generally just messaging. In the last few days I upgraded to
>>         the 1.15 version and suddenly I couldn't send SMSes anymore.
>>         There was no error message. It just finished "sending" but
>>         nothing sent. Fortunately, I was able to downgrade to 1.14
>>         and I have it working again. Thank you for your help. Kind
>>         regards, Ashley 
>>

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