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Emoji from Verizon to Att not working...
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Thanks for taking the time to explain it and not yelling at me, unlike SAD*FACED*CLOWN
I just sent an SMS to a friend with a Verizon iPhone and I put 7 different Emoji characters in the message. He responded that he was in a meeting, but that he liked the "very cool graphics".
Obviously, he is seeing the Emoji characters on his end just fine.
Too bad it doesn't work in the other direction.
Mark
Obviously, he is seeing the Emoji characters on his end just fine.
Too bad it doesn't work in the other direction.
Mark
The issue is with Verizon, as they don't support sending text messages with UTF8 characters to devices outside their own network.
In the current state, Verizon iPhones can:
Hopefully Verizon can figure out a way to support sending emoji icons to AT&T iPhone users, as currently AT&T has no problems and is superior in this regard.
In the current state, Verizon iPhones can:
- receive emoji text messages from either AT&T or Verizon iPhones
- send emoji text messages only to other Verizon iPhone users
Hopefully Verizon can figure out a way to support sending emoji icons to AT&T iPhone users, as currently AT&T has no problems and is superior in this regard.
Hmmm... I wonder if you sent your message as an MMS, if that would work around the Unicode issue on Verizon? MMS content can include text; in fact, there are some phones I've seen where you can force it to send everything as MMS.
I don't know of a way to do that on the iPhone for every text, but I believe that the Messages app in iOS will encode the entire message as an MMS *if* you send to multiple recipients. So you could try to send a text message with Emoji included in it to multiple people, with one of the recipients being an AT&T iPhone, and see if the AT&T iPhone gets non-garbled Emoji when you do this.
Another thing you could try would be to send a text message to an AT&T iPhone from Verizon via AT&T's e-mail-to-SMS gateway. If you send an e-mail (from the Mail app, say) to 2125551212@txt.att.net (where 2125551212 is the 10-digit mobile number of the AT&T iPhone customer), the contents of the e-mail will be sent to their phone as an SMS, but if you use @mms.att.net instead, it will send it as an MMS. Try to send them an e-mail full of Emoji using the @mms.att.net address and see if they get it as an MMS, and see if the Emoji is readable inside the MMS once they receive it.
If that works, and if Verizon allows you to send e-mails vis SMS (if you can send a "text" to, say, 2125551212@mms.att.net), then you can send Emoji "texts" from the Messages app that way. It's cumbersome, sure, but it would work (assuming Verizon's SMS-to-email gateway doesn't have more "magic" that prevents UTF8 characters from passing through).
Long-term, either Verizon needs to fix their inter-mobile-provider SMS gateway to transparently pass along double-byte characters, or Apple needs to add an option to Messages that allows you to specify that you'd like text messages to be send as MMS, or someone needs to develop a Cydia extension that does the same.
-- Nathan
I don't know of a way to do that on the iPhone for every text, but I believe that the Messages app in iOS will encode the entire message as an MMS *if* you send to multiple recipients. So you could try to send a text message with Emoji included in it to multiple people, with one of the recipients being an AT&T iPhone, and see if the AT&T iPhone gets non-garbled Emoji when you do this.
Another thing you could try would be to send a text message to an AT&T iPhone from Verizon via AT&T's e-mail-to-SMS gateway. If you send an e-mail (from the Mail app, say) to 2125551212@txt.att.net (where 2125551212 is the 10-digit mobile number of the AT&T iPhone customer), the contents of the e-mail will be sent to their phone as an SMS, but if you use @mms.att.net instead, it will send it as an MMS. Try to send them an e-mail full of Emoji using the @mms.att.net address and see if they get it as an MMS, and see if the Emoji is readable inside the MMS once they receive it.
If that works, and if Verizon allows you to send e-mails vis SMS (if you can send a "text" to, say, 2125551212@mms.att.net), then you can send Emoji "texts" from the Messages app that way. It's cumbersome, sure, but it would work (assuming Verizon's SMS-to-email gateway doesn't have more "magic" that prevents UTF8 characters from passing through).
Long-term, either Verizon needs to fix their inter-mobile-provider SMS gateway to transparently pass along double-byte characters, or Apple needs to add an option to Messages that allows you to specify that you'd like text messages to be send as MMS, or someone needs to develop a Cydia extension that does the same.
-- Nathan
Americans complaining ITT
Try Japan, where you can't send SMS to other carrier's phones!
(Granted, no one uses SMS in Japan, but...)
Try Japan, where you can't send SMS to other carrier's phones!
(Granted, no one uses SMS in Japan, but...)
MMS sends emoji
I can confirm that appending a picture to your text, thus sending it as an MMS is a solution to the encoding (and emoji) problem. I haven't tried the multiple recipients trick.
Hopefully MMS doesn't eat into your data plan.. but I wouldn't know about that.
I can confirm that appending a picture to your text, thus sending it as an MMS is a solution to the encoding (and emoji) problem. I haven't tried the multiple recipients trick.
Hopefully MMS doesn't eat into your data plan.. but I wouldn't know about that.
I have this same issue. I am using an international keyboard on my iPhone 4 to other iPhone 4s to text. SMS from VZW to ATT shows up garbled on ATT phone. SMS from VZW to VZW no problem, similarly ATT to VZW is no problem.
I just got off the phone with both Apple and VZW tech support teams. The long and short of it is they are working on it.
The longer version is it seemed to be news to Apple even up the chain; VZW first line knew about it immediately and called it a garbled text issue. I think this is their wording for it.
VZW has been working on this since Feb 11. The next deadline for themselves should be around the end of this week according to the guy I spoke with. VZW teams are working with Apple to resolve.
However, as the above is true - I don't know if this is because of the issue above, however if in fact its above this is not going to be a two or three day fix.
I am eagerly standing by for any additional info!
/J
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please stop name checking me on these forums...I did not "yell" at you and I explained the exact same thing to you that the other poster did..what's your problem?...I am not here to make enemies with anyone