A software to use manjaro as a phone with LTE modem

[Teo]

No idea, i have no modem to test at the moment.

[ardv]

i think the modem may be blocking calling when not connecting a phone via rj11?

and gnome calls doesn’t have the ussd and sms options.
is there any alternative that have those options?

edit: i was wrong. gnome-calls has the option to send sms when right clicking a contact. but i cant find a page to show the current sms on sim.
when clicing send sms the box: “device to send sms with” is empty

[dgdg]

@soundofthunder

The downside of that is that you would need a landline, which I’m guessing might be something the OP prefers to avoid. In the mid to late 90’s there were no shortage of applications available for telephony using a 56K modem; Winfax (related) software comes immediately to mind. But, that was then.

Not in this case - the 56K modem would be for connecting to the RJ11 on the ZTE 253v, which would translate it to VoLTE.

@ardv

the gnome-calls app now is detecting the modem and showing the contact list.
but after i try to dial to a number it ends the call quickelly?

That actually sounds like the settings of VoLTE may not be right on the modem itself, or you might not have a SIM that allows for phone calls. But unless this is something that works with another OS, I think we’re in the territory of “you’d be better off asking for help from somewhere with more telephony people”.

[ardv]

i think that this is the problem
i will try to make it connecting with 3g and test.

edit: i have tested but the same result.
when i right click “send sms” it takes me to “kde connect” why is this happening? i think it should handle this action with gnome-calls? can i change the default app of this type of actions?

edit2: i can send ussd codes just from the dialer itself. but it is not receiving the outpu message, i find it in the router sms page

[Teo]

I will repost this

Modem-manager-gui segmentation fault

Modem manager gui is an abandoned project. You should not ruin your system by selectively downgrading other stuff to make it work. There is an AUR project modem-manager-gui-hg that takes the now 4 year old source and patches it, there is of course no guarantee how long will this still work, since the original code relies on old libraries versions…and it will break again at some point in the future. Alternatively, you can use other tools to achieve the same tasks. Network manager already suppor…

You can get some ideas. I have done ussd codes through at commands many years ago. It is generally a pain to make scripts for each command, bun once done it works.
If you need some inspiration you can look here
https://nethelpforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=153
It is 10 year old, written for Openwrt, and for different mobile operator but some at commands will never change. Use google translate, and ipk is just a tar archive (you need the source, ignore pretty much everything else)

[dgdg]

@ardv

i think that this is the problem
i will try to make it connecting with 3g and test.

edit: i have tested but the same result.
when i right click “send sms” it takes me to “kde connect” why is this happening? i think it should handle this action with gnome-calls? can i change the default app of this type of actions?

edit2: i can send ussd codes just from the dialer itself. but it is not receiving the outpu message, i find it in the router sms page

The main thing that comes to mind is “does your SIM support voice calls/texts?”

As in, if you’ve bought this as a mobile data hotspot thing, your carrier might not give you calls/texts. Other than that, I think you probably have to ask somewhere where people are generally more knowledgeable about computer telephony. The Manjaro forums likely don’t have that expertise.

[soundofthunder]

@dgdg

Not in this case - the 56K modem would be for connecting to the RJ11 on the ZTE 253v, which would translate it to VoLTE.

In principle, I suppose, but in practice - - though admittedly I’m limited to personal experience with telephony. The next possible hurdle would be finding classic telephony applications for Linux that’s are fit for purpose; though I’m sure they must exist.

@ardv

The best I can offer is to echo:

@dgdg

“you’d be better off asking for help from somewhere with more telephony people”

[ardv]

thank you for your help and information, I have benefited lot from your help.
my sim can makes calls and sms.
and for gnme-calls, after reconnecting the modem now i can call with it, but i cant hear the one i called and he cant here me.

[ardv]

when i open gnome-calls the icon shown in the taskbar is not the one that should be:

why is this happening?
and when i click the sound icon in the down panel and in the applications tab there no “gnome-calls” from where i can change the volume.
i tried to change to manjaro-pipewire but the same thing is happening

[soundofthunder]

@ardv

why is this happening?

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