cordova-sms-plugin: app crashes with version 1.0.0 during sms send

I’ve been successful in using the cordova-sms-plugin 0.1.13 in an earlier Ionic 3 app - bleNav. In a new Ionic app, rButton, when I installed the cordova-sms-plugin, I got a version 1.0.0. For some reason, the new app crashes when i ran the same line of code this.sms.send(this.phoneNumber, 'This is a test.')

Both of these apps were created as Ionic 3 apps. I was running the apps on a Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android 5.0.1 using the CLI command ionic cordova run android

I saw another thread discussing crashing on some later versions of Android relating to android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE. I do not think my crash is related to that which is why I am starting a new issue. Since Ionic 4 is the official release, I also tried starting an Ionic 4 test app and installed the cordova-sms-plugin 1.0.0. Again when I make the this.sms.send() call, the app crashes.

I want to see if anyone else has the same experience with cordova-sms-plugin 1.0.0. Also, is there a way I can force replace the 1.0.0 version of the sms plugin with the 0.1.13 version?

Below is the list of plugins for the two apps: `C:\Users\Toe\Documents\ionic2\bleNav>ionic cordova plugin

cordova plugin ls cordova-plugin-ble-central 1.1.4 “BLE” cordova-plugin-compat 1.2.0 “Compat” cordova-plugin-device 1.1.4 “Device” cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 1.1.16 “cordova-plugin-ionic-webview” cordova-plugin-nativeaudio 3.0.9 “Cordova Native Audio” cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.1 “Splashscreen” cordova-plugin-vibration 3.1.0 “Vibration” cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.1 “Whitelist” cordova-sms-plugin 0.1.13 “Cordova SMS Plugin” ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 “Keyboard”

C:\Users\Toe\Documents\ionic2\bleNav>cd …/rbutton

C:\Users\Toe\Documents\ionic2\rButton>ionic cordova plugin

cordova plugin ls cordova-plugin-ble-central 1.2.2 “BLE” cordova-plugin-compat 1.2.0 “Compat” cordova-plugin-device 2.0.2 “Device” cordova-plugin-geolocation 4.0.1 “Geolocation” cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.1.3 “cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard” cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 2.3.1 “cordova-plugin-ionic-webview” cordova-plugin-nativeaudio 3.0.9 “Cordova Native Audio” cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.2 “Splashscreen” cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.2 “StatusBar” cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.3 “Whitelist” cordova-sms-plugin 1.0.0 “Cordova SMS Plugin” cordova-sqlite-storage 2.6.0 “Cordova sqlite storage plugin”`

Below is the content of the config.xml file for bleNav that works: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <widget id="io.ionic.starter" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"> <name>bleNav</name> <description>An awesome Ionic/Cordova app.</description> <author email="hi@ionicframework" href="http://ionicframework.com/">Ionic Framework Team</author> <content src="index.html" /> <access origin="*" /> <allow-intent href="http://*/*" /> <allow-intent href="https://*/*" /> <allow-intent href="tel:*" /> <allow-intent href="sms:*" /> <allow-intent href="mailto:*" /> <allow-intent href="geo:*" /> <preference name="ScrollEnabled" value="false" /> <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="16" /> <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="none" /> <preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true" /> <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="300" /> <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" /> <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" /> <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" /> <platform name="android"> <allow-intent href="market:*" /> <icon density="ldpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="mdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="hdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" /> <splash density="land-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-ldpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-mdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-hdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-ldpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-mdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-hdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxxhdpi-screen.png" /> </platform> <platform name="ios"> <allow-intent href="itms:*" /> <allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" /> <icon height="57" src="resources/ios/icon/icon.png" width="57" /> <icon height="114" src="resources/ios/icon/icon@2x.png" width="114" /> <icon height="40" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40.png" width="40" /> <icon height="80" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@2x.png" width="80" /> <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@3x.png" width="120" /> <icon height="50" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50.png" width="50" /> <icon height="100" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50@2x.png" width="100" /> <icon height="60" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60.png" width="60" /> <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@2x.png" width="120" /> <icon height="180" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@3x.png" width="180" /> <icon height="72" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72.png" width="72" /> <icon height="144" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72@2x.png" width="144" /> <icon height="76" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76.png" width="76" /> <icon height="152" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76@2x.png" width="152" /> <icon height="167" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-83.5@2x.png" width="167" /> <icon height="29" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small.png" width="29" /> <icon height="58" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@2x.png" width="58" /> <icon height="87" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@3x.png" width="87" /> <icon height="1024" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-1024.png" width="1024" /> <splash height="1136" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" /> <splash height="1334" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-667h.png" width="750" /> <splash height="2208" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-736h.png" width="1242" /> <splash height="1242" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape-736h.png" width="2208" /> <splash height="1536" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png" width="2048" /> <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@~ipadpro.png" width="2732" /> <splash height="768" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" /> <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@2x~ipad.png" width="1536" /> <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@~ipadpro.png" width="2048" /> <splash height="1024" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" /> <splash height="960" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" /> <splash height="480" src="resources/ios/splash/Default~iphone.png" width="320" /> <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~universal~anyany.png" width="2732" /> </platform> <plugin name="ionic-plugin-keyboard" spec="~2.2.1" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="1.3.1" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="1.1.4" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="~4.0.1" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ionic-webview" spec="^1.1.11" /> <allow-navigation href="http://192.168.0.7:8100" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ble-central" spec="~1.1.4" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-vibration" spec="~3.1.0" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-nativeaudio" spec="~3.0.9" /> <plugin name="cordova-sms-plugin" spec="~0.1.13" /> <engine name="android" spec="~6.1.2" /> </widget> And the content of the config.xml file for rButton that crashes: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <widget id="io.ionic.starter" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"> <name>rButton</name> <description>An awesome Ionic/Cordova app.</description> <author email="hi@ionicframework" href="http://ionicframework.com/">Ionic Framework Team</author> <content src="index.html" /> <access origin="*" /> <allow-intent href="http://*/*" /> <allow-intent href="https://*/*" /> <allow-intent href="tel:*" /> <allow-intent href="sms:*" /> <allow-intent href="mailto:*" /> <allow-intent href="geo:*" /> <preference name="ScrollEnabled" value="false" /> <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="19" /> <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="none" /> <preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true" /> <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="300" /> <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" /> <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" /> <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" /> <platform name="android"> <allow-intent href="market:*" /> <icon density="ldpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="mdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="hdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" /> <icon density="xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" /> <splash density="land-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-ldpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-mdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-hdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="land-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-ldpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-mdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-hdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxhdpi-screen.png" /> <splash density="port-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxxhdpi-screen.png" /> </platform> <platform name="ios"> <allow-intent href="itms:*" /> <allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" /> <icon height="57" src="resources/ios/icon/icon.png" width="57" /> <icon height="114" src="resources/ios/icon/icon@2x.png" width="114" /> <icon height="40" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40.png" width="40" /> <icon height="80" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@2x.png" width="80" /> <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40@3x.png" width="120" /> <icon height="50" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50.png" width="50" /> <icon height="100" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50@2x.png" width="100" /> <icon height="60" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60.png" width="60" /> <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@2x.png" width="120" /> <icon height="180" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60@3x.png" width="180" /> <icon height="72" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72.png" width="72" /> <icon height="144" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72@2x.png" width="144" /> <icon height="76" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76.png" width="76" /> <icon height="152" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76@2x.png" width="152" /> <icon height="167" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-83.5@2x.png" width="167" /> <icon height="29" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small.png" width="29" /> <icon height="58" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@2x.png" width="58" /> <icon height="87" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small@3x.png" width="87" /> <icon height="1024" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-1024.png" width="1024" /> <splash height="1136" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" /> <splash height="1334" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-667h.png" width="750" /> <splash height="2208" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-736h.png" width="1242" /> <splash height="1242" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape-736h.png" width="2208" /> <splash height="1536" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png" width="2048" /> <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@~ipadpro.png" width="2732" /> <splash height="768" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" /> <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@2x~ipad.png" width="1536" /> <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@~ipadpro.png" width="2048" /> <splash height="1024" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" /> <splash height="960" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" /> <splash height="480" src="resources/ios/splash/Default~iphone.png" width="320" /> <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~universal~anyany.png" width="2732" /> </platform> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="1.3.3" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-statusbar" spec="2.4.2" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="2.0.2" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="5.0.2" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ionic-webview" spec="^2.0.0" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard" spec="^2.0.5" /> <plugin name="cordova-sqlite-storage" spec="2.6.0" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ble-central" spec="1.2.2" /> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-geolocation" spec="4.0.1"> <variable name="GEOLOCATION_USAGE_DESCRIPTION" value="To locate you" /> </plugin> <plugin name="cordova-plugin-nativeaudio" spec="3.0.9" /> <plugin name="cordova-sms-plugin" spec="1.0.0" /> <engine name="android" spec="7.1.4" /> </widget> Should I check the logcat logs for the stacktrace? Do I have to load the code and run on Android Studio to do that? I have to apologize that I am still learning about things. Any help you can provide is much appreciated.