Emoji available via Cydia...

[SFStateStudent]

Pretty easy to setup:

[trunksu]

yeah makes it 1000x easier than to edit that plist file :P

[jmann]

ooh i totally have to do this! does anyone know if other people without iphones can see the emoji?

[trunksu]

ooh i totally have to do this! does anyone know if other people without iphones can see the emoji?

depends on the phone as far as i know. i got the feeling most USA phones can't but the rest or the world can. :eek:

[SFStateStudent]

I sent an SMS with emoji icons to my sweetheart (she has the 3G iPhone 2.2 Firmware) and she said she's taking me to dinner tonight...:p

[Surely]

Hey SF....

Do they work through the Text App, or do you need another SMS app to use them?

[SFStateStudent]

Hey SF....

Do they work through the Text App, or do you need another SMS app to use them?

I'll check it right now, I'll uninstall my other SMS app...

[bushido]

Hey SF....

Do they work through the Text App, or do you need another SMS app to use them?

they basically work in everything u type like notes, emails, sms, web etc. but only iPhone users on 2.2 can see them as far as i can tell

[SFStateStudent]

+1 ^^^ That's good scoop! I just confirmed that it does work in the original SMS, email, notes as mentioned above...:cool:

[Surely]

Awesome! Currently installing.....

Thanks for the scoop... :D

[Surely]

How do you access them once in SMS or Mail or Notes? :confused:

I bet it's really simple.....

[dukebound85]

How do you access them once in SMS or Mail or Notes? :confused:

I bet it's really simple.....

hit the little globe icon thingy left of spacebar

[SFStateStudent]

You need to go into Settings>General>Keyboard>International Keyboards>Japanese>Emoji ON. Then just go to email, SMS or notes and press the WORLD/GLOBE icon next to the spacebar and between 123 icon.

[redgaz26]

superb:D:D:D:D:D
just jailbroke my phone then saw this:D:D

[Surely]

Found it.... I should learn to read instructions..... I needs to enable emoji in settings.

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Now if only Safari supported them, I wouldn't see 3 squares on my MacBook....

[heaven]

Yay! Now I have emoji too !

[redgaz26]

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I'm posting this from mobile macrumors!!!
Should work eh!!!
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[redgaz26]

didnt:mad::mad:
oh well;)

[dukebound85]

didnt:mad::mad:
oh well;)

lol safari doesnt support them

[Surely]

didnt:mad::mad:
oh well;)

I can see them on my iPhone.

[SFStateStudent]

I saw someone post info that 3G iPhone's with 2.2 Firmware can see Emoji...

[dukebound85]

I saw someone post info that 3G iPhone's with 2.2 Firmware can see Emoji...

and ipod touches with 2.2

[redgaz26]

lol safari doesnt support them
thats exactly what i thought after i posted it!!


I can see them on my iPhone.
then i went to this thread on my iphone:D:D:D:D
whos laughing now dukebound!!!!(only kidding)

[synthetickittie]

...

[SFStateStudent]

+1 Too funny...:D

[The General]

Does the recipient need to hack their phone to see them?

[heaven]

Does the recipient need to hack their phone to see them?

No, they just need to have 2.2 installed

[sandra7109]

My phone is JB and I wnet to cydia and tried the search but could not find it ??? I am still running 2.1

[heaven]

My phone is JB and I wnet to cydia and tried the search but could not find it ??? I am still running 2.1

Emojis are for 2.2 only. They come with the update. The only thing that the application in Cydia does is editing the plist file that allows access to it. Otherwise they would be only available for iPhone users in Japan specifically running on the Softbank network.

[The General]

No, they just need to have 2.2 installed

Fantastic. These are so cool! If all it takes is an edited plist and they work over text messages, then why the fuss? Why doesn't Apple let everyone use them? And what's this business I hear of them not working with other carriers in Japan? Just SoftBank?

[heaven]

Fantastic. These are so cool! If all it takes is an edited plist and they work over text messages, then why the fuss? Why doesn't Apple let everyone use them? And what's this business I hear of them not working with other carriers in Japan? Just SoftBank?

Because there aren't really any phones that support emojis outside of Japan.
Why just for SoftBank? I guess because the three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au and SoftBank Mobile, have each defined their own variants of emoji.

Taken from wikipedia: The SoftBank design, which supports colors and animation, is particularly popular among young girls. DoCoMo's emoji are the most compact to transmit while au's version is more flexible based on open standards.

Here is a comparison chart (http://surf-style.us/manual3.htm)

[mavis]

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Fantastic. These are so cool! If all it takes is an edited plist and they work over text messages, then why the fuss? Why doesn't Apple let everyone use them? And what's this business I hear of them not working with other carriers in Japan? Just SoftBank?

Because there aren't really any phones that support emojis outside of Japan.
Why just for SoftBank? I guess because the three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au and SoftBank Mobile, have each defined their own variants of emoji.

Taken from wikipedia: The SoftBank design, which supports colors and animation, is particularly popular among young girls. DoCoMo's emoji are the most compact to transmit while au's version is more flexible based on open standards.

Here is a comparison chart (http://surf-style.us/manual3.htm)

Yes, but other Softbank phones are able to send/receive emoji with AU and DoCoMo. I would know, I have other Softbank phones and this function has worked for at least the past three-four years. So I wonder what the iPhone's problem is?

[heaven]

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Yes, but other Softbank phones are able to send/receive emoji with AU and DoCoMo. I would know, I have other Softbank phones and this function has worked for at least the past three-four years. So I wonder what the iPhone's problem is?

Wait, are you saying that the iPhone's emojis can't be sent/received to/from AU and DoCoMo while other phones are able to do that? Thats interesting.. :confused:

[The General]

I am in love with Emoji! Why is Apple discriminating and not letting us have them?

[cualexander]

someone care to explain what this is? (emoji icon) 

To me it looks like a smiling piece of crap. Those crazy japanese!

[heaven]

someone care to explain what this is? (emoji icon) 

To me it looks like a smiling piece of crap. Those crazy japanese!

I have attached a screenshot of the smiley in question so that people browsing the forums from their computers can have a laugh at that too :)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2401/picture4wy7.png

[The General]

Okay, now how do we enable Emoji on the Mac? It appears to just be a fancy font thing, like  and all of these: ç˙˜˚©ƒ∂®¢∞†§¶¨•ˆ.

There has to be a way to do it. I've been looking around in my phone's files and can't find a font for it or anything. But maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.

Ideally it's just a font we can install on our Macs!

[jmann]

I have attached a screenshot of the smiley in question so that people browsing the forums from their computers can have a laugh at that too :)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2401/picture4wy7.png

Aww what a cute pile of dung! :p

[heaven]

Okay, now how do we enable Emoji on the Mac? It appears to just be a fancy font thing, like  and all of these: ç˙˜˚©ƒ∂®¢∞†§¶¨•ˆ.

There has to be a way to do it. I've been looking around in my phone's files and can't find a font for it or anything. But maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.

Ideally it's just a font we can install on our Macs!

Or at least a firefox extension to display them. But I guess that will be done pretty soon :rolleyes:

[kas23]

What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made a texting app that has these emoji. If we can make these: :D:eek::mad::rolleyes:;) on our iPhones, why can't someone just expand these emoticons to make a larger amount of them and then throw them into a texting app?

[heaven]

What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made a texting app that has these emoji. If we can make these: :D:eek::mad::rolleyes:;) on our iPhones, why can't someone just expand these emoticons to make a larger amount of them and then throw them into a texting app?

Of course they can, but the difficult part will be finding someone who will have the same plugin for the texting app installed in order to display them. Otherwise they will see only the boxes or some random '$57A' signs. Both phones need to have the same software. When you decide to send an emoji like this: :cool: to someone, your phone texts the :cool: as $57A or something like that and the recipients phone interprets the $57A as a :cool:.


Thats how I see it and I might be wrong.

[The General]

What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made

A third party did nothing. Apple made these. Emoji have been around for years. It's just something they do in Japan.

a texting app that has these emoji.

It's not a separate app. Apple just made it so the iPhone can receive these unicode characters and interpret them as certain smilies, then display a certain smilie as the character. Just like our computers do for characters like:  or $, and much like our web browser does for things like these: :D or :confused: ... but in the case of the web browser, the page contains the path to an image file, and the browser knows the get the image file and display it appropriately.

If we can make these: :D:eek::mad::rolleyes:;) on our iPhones,

The only reason you are able to make those on your iPhone is because you can type in the "code" for each smilie, and the website and web browsers figure it out from there.

why can't someone just expand these emoticons to make a larger amount of them and then throw them into a texting app

1. These emoticons exist in on a website.
2. It is unnecessary, we have Emoji.
3. If you're going to put a new texting app on the phone, then you've clearly jailbroken your phone so you might as well just enable Emoji anyway.
4. Emoji are system-wide. They work in SMS, Email, Safari, Twitter clients, Notepad, etc. It's not just a text messaging thing.
5. I don't think you have any grasp at all of how unicode typefaces work, so your frustration here is unwarranted, and your suggested workaround is hilarious.

[mavis]

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Yes, but other Softbank phones are able to send/receive emoji with AU and DoCoMo. I would know, I have other Softbank phones and this function has worked for at least the past three-four years. So I wonder what the iPhone's problem is?

Wait, are you saying that the iPhone's emojis can't be sent/received to/from AU and DoCoMo while other phones are able to do that? Thats interesting.. :confused:

That's exactly what I'm saying.

When I came to Japan six years ago, we could only send emoji by SMS/MMS, which in Japan means same carrier only. A few years ago (maybe three or four) I noticed that I was able to send emoji to an keitai email address (meaning, another carrier's phone) and since then, every phone I've owned has had that ability. Until the iPhone, that is. :rolleyes:

[kameko]

What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made a texting app that has these emoji. If we can make these: :D:eek::mad::rolleyes:;) on our iPhones, why can't someone just expand these emoticons to make a larger amount of them and then throw them into a texting app?

you clearly don't know anything about web forums. those aren't 'made' on the iphone.

[SuperMacMan]

These: :) :D :( :mad: aren't on the iPhone, silly. They're made by MacRumors Forum code interpreting them as smileys and sending the correct image to the web browser. That's why :) works on any computer, or iPhone.

Emoji is iPhone/Japanese Mobile Phone specific. It has to have the specific code eg $590Xa might become a smiley face on a Japanese phone. That's how it works. Ira also how Nokia's send those little picture SMSs that don't work on Sagems or whatever.

Also, Emoji is viewable by anyone on 2.2 iPhone. However, it's only writeable if you're on Softbank, or have the hack installed.

Oh, and that pile of poop with a smiley face... ROFL!!!!!

[coorspate]

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I can't see them on this site. Just gonna test somthing. 

[coorspate]

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Nope still can't see them on the web.

[ryder0356]

the tweak isnt available in cydia anymore, any other place to find it?

[The General]

the tweak isnt available in cydia anymore, any other place to find it?

Spell Number will enable it and you don't even need Cydia or to jailbreak.

http://appshopper.com/link/spell-number

Follow the instructions in the app description.

[DannyBres]

it is for me!

[dZp]

the tweak isnt available in cydia anymore, any other place to find it?
It is still available.
There's a new server for iSpazio's Cydia repository.
Add this source to Cydia :
Cydia > Manage > Sources > Edit > Add
http://ispaziorepo.com/cydia/apt/

[SFStateStudent]

Good info to know; but does anyone know if the Emoji craze has calmed down? Or has it just continued to be crazy, just not on these forums? All my friends are wanting emoji on their phones, but unable to get it...

[dZp]

^ I believe a lot of people only want it because it's not available (by default). That's just the nature of things, and it gives them something to complain about. :D

Myself, I don't see what all the fuss is about.