Emoji from ios 5 to ios4

[barakrl]

My GF and I have been using emoji a lot (mostly for inside jokes) until I decided to install the beta build of iOS 5 on my iphone 4.
Since then, whenever I send a emoji icons to her she receives them as black squares [just like the verizon to at&t issue].
However, she can send them to me just fine. what is even weirder is that if she copy and pastes a "square" and sends it back to me, I receive the original icon just fine.

I'm using an iPhone 4 with iOS 5 and she's with a 3GS with iOS 4.1 (and Emoji Free! app that installed the emoji keyboard support).

we are both on the same carrier - Orange [israel].

and again, everything was fine before 5.

any thoughts?

Thanks.

 

[transam7816]

I just discovered this like 10 minutes ago also. I sent the 4th smiley on the top after the letter t and it showed on her phone like an old school type smiley but on my phone it was fine. Prolly cuz of the different versions..really have no clue though

 

[err404]

The Unicode mapping has been changed significantly. I'm sure that this will be addressed before the official release.
I had a lot if Unicode chars in my folder names (not just emoji) and the majority of then were altered in iOS5.

 

[shandyman]

i've been having this problem, but only with 1 friend, i have 2 on orange, one gets them fine, one gets the boxes, it's weird! i'm on orange too. they're both on iPhone 3Gs, not sure what version of iOS 4 they're on tho and all used Emoji free.

 

[leda.ly]

My GF and I have been using emoji a lot (mostly for inside jokes) until I decided to install the beta build of iOS 5 on my iphone 4.
Since then, whenever I send a emoji icons to her she receives them as black squares [just like the verizon to at&t issue].
However, she can send them to me just fine. what is even weirder is that if she copy and pastes a "square" and sends it back to me, I receive the original icon just fine.

I'm using an iPhone 4 with iOS 5 and she's with a 3GS with iOS 4.1 (and Emoji Free! app that installed the emoji keyboard support).

we are both on the same carrier - Orange [israel].

and again, everything was fine before 5.

any thoughts?

Thanks.

I'm having this same problem, with my 3GS on iOS 4.1 and my friends on iOS 5.

A quick visit to the Apple website provided me with the reason behind the squares:
Additional Information

Notes:
- When sending emoji to non-iOS devices (other mobile phones, computers, or applications), the emoji may not appear as expected. See this article for more information.
- When using iOS 4.3 or earlier, emoji is supported only on Japanese iPhone devices.
Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4976

At the moment, I think the only solution is if we update our iOS firmwares, but that would involve re-jailbreaking!