Smileys Don't Display(wrong forum, should be AT&T Inspire 4g)

[TerribleTim68]

Hey gang. This one is a bit wierd but I'm hoping you guys can help me out here. My wife has this phone, not me. What we've noticed is that when I send her a text from my Blackberry, the smileys don't display as images, just as text. But when our daughter send her a text from her Droid, the smileys display as images.

So Droid to Droid it displays images, but if the text originates from a different oS it displays as text. Is there a way to fix that? Did we miss a setting or something?

 

[tube517]

Re: Smileys Don't Display

Which texting app are you using?

 

[OperationA7X]

Re: Smileys Don't Display

It's all about format of smileys and how the phone translates them. For example, some phones make a happy face using while others use , and some others even use :happy: So whatever the case is, Android always includes the nose (-) when sending an emoticon. The only exception being the ":O" face. Hope this helps.

 

[TerribleTim68]

Which texting app are you using?

Just a standard text message, no special app. So just using the phone.

It's all about format of smileys and how the phone translates them. For example, some phones make a happy face using while others use , and some others even use :happy: So whatever the case is, Android always includes the nose (-) when sending an emoticon. The only exception being the ":O" face. Hope this helps.

Ok, this one sort of makes sense. For instance, when she sends me a smiley I get the text "". My phone uses "" for that smiley. So is there no way to make it interperate it as an image?

One other note, I messed up and put this in the wrong forum. Her phone is the AT&T Inspire 4g. Maybe a mod can move this thread?

 

[OperationA7X]

I can't do it, but yeah, I guess just send it in the format that the receiver's phone recognizes that smiley.

Sent from my HTC Vivid WCX using Android Central Forums

 

[Daninla]

You may need to download the attachment that goes with the sms program. SMS Pro needs an attachement for the smileys to work.

 

[OperationA7X]

You may need to download the attachment that goes with the sms program. SMS Pro needs an attachement for the smileys to work.

That's for "emojis", which are a different set of smileys, and Handcent SMS is the same. He's just talking about the stock smileys.