This is how I did it.
e = new SerialPort("COM4", 9600, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One);
e.Handshake = Handshake.RequestToSend;
e.WriteLine("AT+CMGF=1"+Environment.NewLine);
e.WriteLine("AT+CMGS" + "phone number here" + Environment.NewLine);
w.WriteLine("Message here"+(char)26+Environment.NewLine);
The code above might contain some minor errors because i just wrote it by hand.
If i have more numbers to send to I have to close the port and open for each time I send a text message.
I havent looked into why it happens yet.My application is still being developed.
I believe your problem could be the newline command, I tried different commands using "\n","\t\n" and so on.
Nothing worked until i used Environment.NewLine.
Hope this helps.