Enable Emoji for everyone

[mavis]

At first I was really excited at being able to utilize the Emoji on my phone, but as I sit here going through the whole procedure again for my wife's and then my kids phones, the madder I get. All I am doing is breaking into the phone to unlock a feature that was included in the update. Apple put the feature on my phone, taking up space, and felt the need not to let me have it. Why? It's got a setting. Why would Apple think that only the Japanese would enjoy playing with these. Let us all have them without having to do all of this work. How many of yall agree?

I agree wholeheartedly. It annoys me even more so because I live in the target market, have a legit, activated phone with SoftBank, and STILL cannot use emoji unless I jailbreak (because I use MobileMe rather than the **** carrier-provided email) ...

I mean, it's almost as if they want people to jailbreak.

 

[starkruzr]

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.

Because you display willful ignorance, mostly.

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?

BECAUSE THERE IS NO RISK WHEN ALL YOU ARE DOING IS JAILBREAKING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BRICK AN IPHONE WITH JAILBREAK. Even if something screws up and the phone becomes unbootable, S-Gold will STILL put the device into DFU mode and you will STILL be able to restore it to factory-new conditions. You are confusing jailbreak "risk" with unlock risk. Even unlocking is no longer risky these days with BootNeuter.

To be fair, the more applications I had installed that depended on Mobile Substrate (QuickGold, etc.), the slower my phone would get, but that was with an older version of Mobile Substrate. That slowdown is gone now.

Does anyone know if it's possible to install support for emoji on Macs or Windows boxes? Linux, even?

 

[The General]

Well, det2004, there you have it. You can jailbreak, enable Emoji, and then restore your phone back to normal and still have Emoji installed.

Thanks for doing this andyblila! My girlfriend didn't want to jailbreak and she said she'd do it if this were possible! Looks like I have some work to do.

I'm going to secretly do it to my mom's on Thanksgiving. She is against hacking too.

 

[det2004]

Well, det2004, there you have it. You can jailbreak, enable Emoji, and then restore your phone back to normal and still have Emoji installed.

Thanks for doing this andyblila! My girlfriend didn't want to jailbreak and she said she'd do it if this were possible! Looks like I have some work to do.

I'm going to secretly do it to my mom's on Thanksgiving. She is against hacking too.

Yeah, I'm seriously considering it. I was going to do it earlier, but I have been restoring my phone. I used to have a full 3g signal before the 2.2 update, and now I only have edge, so I have been trying to restore my phone to see if that helped, and also tried downgrading to 2.1, but that gave me a 1013 error (wonder if it's because of the new baseband in 2.2?)

Oh well, I might as well enjoy some emoji on my blazing fast Edge phone.

 

[brasknucs]

I can definitely confirm that this works. Jailbroke the phone, installed the Emoji, removed the Jailbreak, and the Emoji stayed.

Nice find!

 

[TheNightPhoenix]

Dunno why people are bothering to jail break when you can do this
http://designer.dlinkddns.com/blog/?p=107

 

[RiGo]

For some reason emoji doesn't show up for me on the mobile version of the forums. I just get the codes... Anyone else have this problem?

anyone?

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (16GB iPhone 3G (2.2 JB'd): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

For some reason emoji doesn't show up for me on the mobile version of the forums. I just get the codes... Anyone else have this problem?

anyone?

Yeah, same here. Of course, nothing on the mobile site seems to work perfectly for the iPhone. If only it wasn't so damn fast. ()

 

[MikePA]

If you want Emoji, this is definitely the easiest way to get them.

No, the easiest way is to skip steps 3, 4 and 5.

 

[brasknucs]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

For some reason emoji doesn't show up for me on the mobile version of the forums. I just get the codes... Anyone else have this problem?

The emoji are showing up for me on the mobile site... 

 

[andyblila]

Dunno why people are bothering to jail break when you can do this
http://designer.dlinkddns.com/blog/?p=107

Because you don't get them all.

BTW, I just finished my third phone with the JB and Re-lock method. Works like a charm and the phone is re locked on stock firmware.

 

[andyblila]

No, the easiest way is to skip steps 3, 4 and 5.

Only if you want to leave your phone JB'd.

 

[andyblila]

Well, det2004, there you have it. You can jailbreak, enable Emoji, and then restore your phone back to normal and still have Emoji installed.

Thanks for doing this andyblila! My girlfriend didn't want to jailbreak and she said she'd do it if this were possible! Looks like I have some work to do.

I'm going to secretly do it to my mom's on Thanksgiving. She is against hacking too.

Anytime my friend. The whole process takes about an hour. As you can see from above, i've done it to 3. Have fun and let me know how it turns out!

 

[MikePA]

Only if you want to leave your phone unlocked.

Wrong. How many times do people have to hear jb DOES NOT EQUAL unlocking?

 

[ellsworth]

very cooool!

 

[brasknucs]

just finished my 2nd iphone 3G... works like a charm

 

[xsecretfiles]

I just installed it, but everyone I've sent the text to cannot see the emoticons...do I need to do something else?

granted one of the people I've sent the text to has a jailbroken phone

 

[jcde7ago]

I just installed it, but everyone I've sent the text to cannot see the emoticons...do I need to do something else?

granted one of the people I've sent the text to has a jailbroken phone

I believe only other people with 2.2 installed (jailbroken or not doesn't matter) will be able to see the emoji's that you send, and vice-versa.

 

[QuarterSwede]

I believe only other people with 2.2 installed (jailbroken or not doesn't matter) will be able to see the emoji's that you send, and vice-versa.

Exactly. On my non-JB 1st Gen iPhone I can see the Emoji in this thread. It works in Safari so I'd imagine it'd work in SMS.

 

[The General]

I just thought of a way people could get full Emoji without jailbreaking at all.

Someone will need to do this for it to work:

1. Erase all previous iTunes backups in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
2. DFU restore an iPhone to pwned firmware.
3. Set it up as a new phone in iTunes, name it something generic so people can change it later and so they don't have your info. Kill any sync it might try to do automatically.
4. Use Cydia to install the Emoji package
5. Use iTunes to backup the phone. Right click on it in the left column and hit Backup...
6. Locate the backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and distribute it to people who want to use it.

Then someone who doesn't want to jailbreak could:

1. Erase all backups in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
2. Put the above created backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
3. Restore their phone from backup and choose at one
4. Resync all of their data if it was lost such as contacts and email accounts. TXT will probably be gone, I'm not sure.

But yeah, I've also read that the backups are signed so this may not work. We'll have to try it though, obviously.

Dunno why people are bothering to jail break when you can do this
http://designer.dlinkddns.com/blog/?p=107

Because that is more bothersome than jailbreaking. It's more work.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Doesn't jailbreaking technically void your warranty? I understand that you can restore to a legit copy of the firmware to avoid this but what happens if something happens to cause your iPhone to lockup and you can't restore? If you take it to the Apple store you're boned, no?

 

[andyblila]

Wrong. How many times do people have to hear jb DOES NOT EQUAL unlocking?

Correct. I misspoke. It should read JB. Thanks for keeping me honest!

 

[andyblila]

I just installed it, but everyone I've sent the text to cannot see the emoticons...do I need to do something else?

granted one of the people I've sent the text to has a jailbroken phone

They have to be running 2.2 otherwise they will only see blocks. They don't have to be jailbroken, just running firmware 2.2

 

[The General]

Doesn't jailbreaking technically void your warranty? I understand that you can restore to a legit copy of the firmware to avoid this but what happens if something happens to cause your iPhone to lockup and you can't restore? If you take it to the Apple store you're boned, no?

You can always DFU restore unless it's a hardware problem, in which case Apple will replace it because then they won't be able to restore it either.

It's not like they have some special iPhone restoring machines, they probably use iTunes just like us.

 

[andyblila]

Doesn't jailbreaking technically void your warranty? I understand that you can restore to a legit copy of the firmware to avoid this but what happens if something happens to cause your iPhone to lockup and you can't restore? If you take it to the Apple store you're boned, no?

No, all the Jailbreak does, if you don't install apps, is to allow access to the root directory (very short and to the point description). A DFU restore to stock firmware fixes the phone. Also my process restores the phone to stock firmware anyway.