Comments on: How To Enable Emoji For Free & Without Jailbreaking

By: nacho

nacho — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:35:47 +0000

i have a jailbroken iphone i have try to install emoji but i cant receive and when i send emoji no one gets them i have downloaded the emoji from the app store and i have cydia and i try yo uninstall and it stays in my phone in the keyboard section, how do i make it work or do i have to tweak my phone more.. please help…

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:11:35 +0000

It worked for me fine, But in mail application from Iphone. Emoij is not working. Is this normal?

By: jean

jean — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:52 +0000

thanks, love it. lol

By: BigBuedro

BigBuedro — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:05:38 +0000

I have a 16GB 3Gs and I had the same problem as n3l when i first tried but the un-install re-install solution worked.
Thanks.

By: Sam Freedom

Sam Freedom — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:37:24 +0000

Ps I know this might seem minor but if you're somewhere without a pen and want an easy way to remember the code number to enter it's as simple as the sequence: 91 92 93 94 then .59 — it's broken down in a way easier for the brain to recall.

Cheers!
Sam

By: Sam Freedom

Sam Freedom — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:29:51 +0000

Thanx!!

By: Aminah786

Aminah786 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:26:06 +0000

OMG it worked…….ur da besttt!!
i been trying for ages…..gr8 explaination……once agen thankuuu
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By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:39:03 +0000

In non-landscape keyboard where the globe icon should be its a gray box. Hit that and it will switch you to and from iemoji. THe gray box on left is globe and on the right is delete. Hope this helps!

By: 

 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Apple only wanted the  emoji for the Japanese iPhone/iPod touch. Nuff said. Oh by the way those were emoji.

By: Maya02

Maya02 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:49:10 +0000

The alternate keyboard is available to me in texting but not in email. Is that normal or did I miss a step?

Thanks!

By: abc

abc — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:15:04 +0000

some of my icons don't show up. they look like this: fj fb fh ffk ….. mostly some of the hands. anyone know how to make them show up?

By: Josh Gard

Josh Gard — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:48:46 +0000

Thanks for the comment blade444!

What you're experiencing is a problem that you'll face with any app that doesn't support the emoji character set. You may also notice that if you include any emoji icons in an email and send it to someone who will read it on a desktop app or even in gmail for example, they will not see the emoji. These characters are handled differently by different apps, from the "?" in Outlook to a box in gmail.

As far as I know, this is just a limitation of using a foreign character set in apps that don't have support for them. By enabling emoji on the iPhone, it's allowing you to use these characters, but other apps may not not support them.

By: TOC

TOC — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:54:42 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Worked perfectly! I'd been wanting those icons for a while. I didn't realize they were just a hidden preference and now I'm very glad I didn't pay just to enable something that was already on my phone in the first place. I don't understand why this option isn't available to toggle on or off at will in the first place.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:20:57 +0000

I downloaded an APP store app called "emoji Icons" and it enable the emoji keyboard with out any hacks. The app was free.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:03:27 +0000

In facebook, you can tap the greyed out area on bottom left corner to get yourself back to qwert

By: joshgard

joshgard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:27:26 +0000

Great observation, Wayne. I'll update the post with this note!

By: joshgard

joshgard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Hey K4RL, thanks for the comment!

I've also noticed a few places where I've gotten myself into the emoji keyboard and unable to get back out. I think it's a 1.0 implementation, and hopefully Apple will tweak it with some updates soon. I've also noticed, that the placement of the globe icon has caused the 123 button to shrink to half its size, which is causing me to continuously hit the globe and pull up emoji when I was intending to pull up the numeric keypad to type a number. It's going to take some retraining my fingers to tap more to the left to avoid the globe when I'm wanting a number.

Regards,
Josh

By: orbisks

orbisks — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:53:06 +0000

Cool tip. Works great! just found one problem on my 3GS so far. Globe icon to swap to/from the emoji disappears with the phone in portrait mode, you can only see it again if you turn you iphone on it's side (landscape). This works fine in sms & email, but the twitter & facebook apps do not currently support landscape yet, so the minute to swap to emoji, you cant swap back to normal characters.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:26:10 +0000

Turns out the emoji remains even after you deleted the app

By: Alicia Bankhofer

Alicia Bankhofer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

It worked for me quite well, now I have to convince my friends to install it as well so I can share the joy!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:04:43 +0000

This developer was the original creator of CHOS back in palmOS era. His developments have benefited hundreds of thousands in the PDA community. Kudos to another gem of his!

By: joshgard

joshgard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:39:05 +0000

Sorry to hear that, n3l.

Here's a few tips to try to get it to work:

1) Uninstall the spell number app if you have it installed.
2) Do a full shutdown of your iphone.
3) Reboot your iphone
4) Without going into any other app first, go back into the app store and reinstall spell number.
5) Then open it up, enter the number exactly as shown in the directions, close the app with the home key
6) Then go into the settings app and enable the emoji keyboard.

You should be running a non-jailbroken, gold 3.0 iPhone. I hope this works for you. Let us know!

/Josh

By: n3l

n3l — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0000

didn't work for me