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Enable Emoji for everyone
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Thanks! I haven't tried it yet, but you have to enable Japanese keyboard to have this work? What if you want you "space" bar to say "space?" Are you out of luck then?
And what exactly does this do to your contacts? Does it really add 27 nonsense contacts? That would be more than I have now!
THANKS SO MUCH!
it works.
For english speakers - create a contact, add these to the contact. I got an error but it seemed to work... i type a message with my preffered keyboard (UK) and when i want a picture, i click jap keyboard next to the space bar, spell 'emoji' pick a row of icons and delete the one i don't want.
This looks like good as we'll get without JB.
It does work, but it's pretty hard to get used to. One false move and you are writing stuff in Japanese. And I couldn't figure out how to get to another row of emoji; I could only access one row.
It does work, bur it's pretty hard to get used to. One false move and you are writing stuff in Japanese. And I couldn't figure out how to get to another row of emoji; I could only access one row.
Oh good grief, yuck! That sure is an ugly solution, why go that route when you can JB and have it like it should be, nice interface and all integrated with the keyboard. I appreciate those that don't want stray software on their phones, but just because you jail break doesn't mean you have to install a bunch of crap on there. Just install the Emoji package and be done, you won't even notice that you're jailbroken except for having Cydia installed, and being able to use these wonderful little emoji...
If you don't want to install anything on your phone, you can "vanilla" jailbreak, and simply upload a jailbroken firmware with no installers on it, get a program like DiskAid and edit said preference file with that program over USB. If you jailbreak with out installing software/installer applications, pretty much all it does is activate your phone, allow non-signed apps (jailbreak apps) and access to the root partition over USB (Apple already allows USB access to media for iTunes, the jailbreak just modifies the config of the service on the iPhone that facilitates this to allow root filesystem access).
from what i know, you won't be able to do apple updates though after this, right?
If you're on a legitimate carrier/operator, you can easily update with official updates, it just re-locks the root filesystem and overwrites any changes you've made to it. You'd then need to do it again once the newest software is hacked again. People who jailbreak already need to do this with software updates as it is.
If you don't like to mess with stuff too much, it may be too much hassle. It's doable though.
I've noticed that if you have a custom carrier logo set (a text one, not an image one) with a program like MakeItMine, and also if I manually edit my com.apple.springboard.plist in a jailbroken state, when I backup, restore firmware, and then restore from backup, the custom carrier logo and changes are still present. I wonder if this plist edit will make its way back into a non-jailbroken phone if you:
1. Jailbreak
2. Apply the mod to enable Emoji
3. Backup with iTunes
4. Restore phone in DFU mode to a stock firmware
5. Restore from backup
If so, then people who don't want to jailbreak are good to go, you'll just have to jailbreak and then unjailbreak. Honestly I don't feel like testing this right now though.
I've noticed that if you have a custom carrier logo set (a text one, not an image one) with a program like MakeItMine, and also if I manually edit my com.apple.springboard.plist in a jailbroken state, when I backup, restore firmware, and then restore from backup, the custom carrier logo and changes are still present. I wonder if this plist edit will make its way back into a non-jailbroken phone if you:
1. Jailbreak
2. Apply the mod to enable Emoji
3. Backup with iTunes
4. Restore phone in DFU mode to a stock firmware
5. Restore from backup
If so, then people who don't want to jailbreak are good to go, you'll just have to jailbreak and then unjailbreak. Honestly I don't feel like testing this right now though.
except that it has still been tampered with, and who knows what files have been put on your phone when it was open, just because the restore locked it again. If the emoji remain after a restore, other files from the jailbreak process probably still reside on your iphone as well.
I've noticed that if you have a custom carrier logo set (a text one, not an image one) with a program like MakeItMine, and also if I manually edit my com.apple.springboard.plist in a jailbroken state, when I backup, restore firmware, and then restore from backup, the custom carrier logo and changes are still present. I wonder if this plist edit will make its way back into a non-jailbroken phone if you:
1. Jailbreak
2. Apply the mod to enable Emoji
3. Backup with iTunes
4. Restore phone in DFU mode to a stock firmware
5. Restore from backup
If so, then people who don't want to jailbreak are good to go, you'll just have to jailbreak and then unjailbreak. Honestly I don't feel like testing this right now though.
Actually, I think that would work. It's an Apple created preference file. Should definitely work.
Backups only backup preferences and app store apps, I think. So as long as you don't use jailbreak apps, you shouldn't have anything odd on your phone after a restore.
I don't know what you're so afraid of. You say you don't want any file on your phone that hasn't been checked out by Apple for "problems, unknown consequences, or nefarious coding" so you want every bit of code on your phone checked out by Apple. Well, even on stock phones, not every file has been checked out by Apple and not every line of code as been either. There's a lot of copy and paste that goes on when creating something like the iPhone OS from open source projects for things like libc.
Apple can't even check for "nefarious coding" in AppStore apps because the AppStore doesn't require the programmer to send the source along with the binaries for their application. All they can do is debug it, but bad stuff still gets through.
Do you think the iPhone dev team doesn't debug their software? If they didn't, it wouldn't work!
You really have nothing to worry about. Even if something bad DOES go wrong with your phone due to a jailbreak application (which is highly unlikely if you don't install anything but the Emoji thing which just edits a text file) then you can always just restore your phone with iTunes and it will be completely back to normal.
You are being overly paranoid. Overly paranoid people don't get cool things like this on their iPhones. Deal with it.
I had a first generation iphone, which I jailbroke. After that, the phone wasn't nearly as stable, would lock up, lagged, and I would get data connections showing up on my bill at times where I was sleeping and knew I wasn't using the phone. And before you ask, no I didn't have it set up to check for email automatically or anything like that.
Where is this paranoia coming from? People have been running jailbroken iPhones since August of 2007. If there was any "nefarious" content hanging around in Cydia, don't you think you would have heard about it by now?
People, there is ZERO reason not to jailbreak your device. You're not going to break anything. Jailbreak NEVER breaks anything. It is only unlocking that can brick a phone iPod touch users never have to worry about it.
Does anyone know how to get Emoji support on a Mac or Windows machine?
I don't believe you. You installed something else, probably ran a lot of applications in the background and didn't know it, etc. etc.
The key to operating a jailbroken phone "cleanly" is to KEEP IT SIMPLE. Install Cydia, install Five-Icon Dock (I love this), install Emoji support, and stop there. You don't "have" to install a bunch of other things too.
I really don't care if you believe me or not. I did a lot of research before I jailbroke it, and didn't install all that much, and the things I did install were from the installer.app and nowhere else.
so your saying to jailbreak your iphones so you can have all these cool things, but it'll only be stable if you don't install them?? lol
seems kind of stupid.
I really don't care if you believe me or not. I did a lot of research before I jailbroke it, and didn't install all that much, and the things I did install were from the installer.app and nowhere else.
so your saying to jailbreak your iphones so you can have all these cool things, but it'll only be stable if you don't install them?? lol
seems kind of stupid.
"lol." The point is to exercise JUDGEMENT, which you clearly didn't do. I have a multitude of things installed on my device -- StatusNotifier, Terminal, SSH, Firefly, etc. -- because I know how to use them and exercised common sense when I installed them. The result? My phone flies under firmware 2.2 like I left it stock.
You're also talking about a platform which has evolved significantly from what you remember. Lots of things used to break because Installer.app was a piece of crap. Cydia is based on the Debian APT packaging system and works much, much better. The entire jailbroken software ecosystem is much more stable and higher quality than it was -- and even then, it was great provided you knew what you were doing.
haha...how do you know I didn't exercise judgement?
It's not like I installed everything and anything on my phone. I was careful and it still had problems. But I guess I'll leave it up to self-important know-it-alls to tell me what I did/didn't do with my phone that they have never seen.
Now, it may be a different jailbreaking scene then it was for the 1st gen iphone, but from seeing different posts here and there, it seems people still have issues with locking their phone up/general instability, and in some cases bricking. Now I'm not saying that everyone is having issues, maybe it's their fault, who knows, but why would I want to jailbreak my phone and risk this, when it has been stable since 2.1?
I really don't care if you believe me or not. I did a lot of research before I jailbroke it, and didn't install all that much, and the things I did install were from the installer.app and nowhere else.
so your saying to jailbreak your iphones so you can have all these cool things, but it'll only be stable if you don't install them?? lol
seems kind of stupid.
Your phone won't slow down if you don't have programs running in the background. Before, on 1.x software, programs HAD to run in the background if they were going to do anything special when not specifically open. One example I'd say would be Taskbar Notifier. It ran in the background so when you got calls and stuff the icons would show up in the status bar. Now, programs use Mobile Substrate, which is sort of a unified background process so to speak. Winterboard uses it, Status Notifier uses it, SBSettings uses it.
My phone runs perfectly fast with these installed:
1. Cydia
2. Winterboard (with a full system theme)
3. Five Icon Dock
4. PdaNet
5. Flashlight
6. Status Notifier
7. OpenSSH
That's all I really want from Cydia, so that's all I install. Most of the people you see talking about their slowed down phones are those who install all sorts of stuff that run in the background, trying to make their phone all leeted out. Keep it simple and be decisive about what you install and don't install, and your phone will be just fine. I ran 2.1 jailbroken with those things installed from the day Pwnage 2.1 was released to the day 2.2 was released and didn't have a single problem. So far, I've been running my 2.2 iPhone 3G jailbroken and have had no problems.
Things to stay away from in you want to avoid problems would be:
1. SIM unlocking the phone
2. Cracked AppStore applications
3. Installer.app
And if you're just that against jailbreaking, then get the heck out of the iPhone hacking section. Seems fair to me.
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1. SIM unlocking the phone
2. Cracked AppStore applications
3. Installer.app
And if you're just that against jailbreaking, then get the heck out of the iPhone hacking section. Seems fair to me.
Cracked apps work perfectly fine on my phone.
People had lockup problems, Apple logo of death issues, keyboard lag, and all sorts of bugs and instability on 2.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 whether or not they were jailbroken. When 2.1 came out, it was much more stable, whether or not they jailbroke.
The reason you'd want to jailbreak now that 2.1 and 2.2 are stable is because 2.1 and 2.2 are more stable.
Things to stay away from in you want to avoid problems would be:
1. SIM unlocking the phone
2. Cracked AppStore applications
3. Installer.app
And if you're just that against jailbreaking, then get the heck out of the iPhone hacking section. Seems fair to me.
I haven't done a lot of research into jailbreaking the 3g iphone, since the release of the app store pretty much gave me everything I wanted, so I have a couple of questions.
You're saying to avoid the installer.app, but why? Wasn't that the major source of 3rd party apps for the previous iphone? I was under the impression that someone from the dev team made installer.app. How exactly does cydia differ from installer, and what makes it so great?
I have pretty much stayed out of the hacking section of the forums, but have been looking for a non jailbreaking method of getting emoji on the iphone. The mods moved this thread over to the hacking section, so that is why I am here. It seems like there should be some method of enabling emoji on iphones without jailbreaking them. All of the articles I had seen said that there were solutions for jailbroken and non-jailbroken iphones, but I have yet to see instructions for the non jailbreaking method.