text message emoticons?
 

is there a way to send emoticons with text message?
I read the manual and it says to go to advance and add this or insert but it's greyed out.

please help thanks.

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smiley sms will let you see smileys in the messages, amd smip is an onscreen kb with smileys.... there are bugs with smiley sms and i dont use it anymore maybe there is a newer version this is 1.66 it is freeware so you might find a newer one out there, and i also zipped smip (couldnt zip the cabs seperately for somereason but if you extract them they are seperate so you dont have to install both if you dont want one,) hope this helped

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Most of the time the receiving party won't get the emoticons unless they have the same software installed =[

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I have no clue as to how to download this to my TP. Can someone give me step by step instructions? Thanks a Million !

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use the cable or sd card or manually go online to this forum page and download it and just open it up and install both cab files.... btw i recommend vito sms chat... best program out there for txting and the new version included emoticons..

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thank you all, so there is no need for me to install this if the other person doesn't have the software?
any other way to do this?

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If you do standard emoticons ( :) ;) :D etc, etc) then *most* phones will be able to understand it. It's when you get into some of the third party and a little more eccentric ones that they won't be able to translate and they will show up like normal text.

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so madlyalive are you using smiley sms? if so is it really buggy or do you like it?

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I don't use it because the only emoticons I use are :) ;) and :D when I text.

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how do you send those?

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probably : ) , ; ) , and : D (without the spaces)

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Yeah...sorry...Thanks :)

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thank you all. I guess that's what I'll do.

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Is there a way to add more emoticons to the ones preset in messaging on the treo 800w?

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well this is unfortunate that a bada$$ phone like the TP doesn't have this functionality. all the complexity of this phone and theres not an app that we can use. this is 1997 technology hahaha

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try these from page 1

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when ur typing a text message in the lower right ull see where it says menu...click on menu and once the popup windows expands ull see the option for it...

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Seriously! It's not like smiley faces are a critical function but why in the world would they be left out? Seriously. Even the dumbest dumb phones have them. I don't understand.

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on tp key board theres a button on left hand of the space bar. "sym" hit that and u will get 6 differant smileys

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I've tried this with a text to myself and all I see are the symbols ( : ), : P, etc. ) no emoticoms What gives? Is there a setting I need to change? TIA

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I have the same issue. i text my wife who also has a Sprint TP and all she got is :- ) ( no space )

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I think the emoticons that you get when you press the SYM key are just to show you what you're sending. They won't come up like that in the text messages. At least that's my experience.

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they will if you use smiley sms

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On a related question: Using the soft/on-screen keypad (phone pad/T9, for example), is there a short cut way of typing emoticons rather than hitting symbo, choosing ":", then symbol again, ")"?

Thanks.

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try smip, it is a whole kb of smileys.

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I think they will show up as a smiley face on the other person's phone, but not on your own Touch Pro. With that symbol shortcut on the keyboard, at least you can see what you are sending for 6 basic smileys.