MSE News: Got a Samsung phone? You could get charged extra for sending emojis

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"Samsung mobile users who put a smiley in a message could see their text converted into a pricey picture message..."
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Got a Samsung phone? You could get charged extra for sending emojis

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  • sparky93
    sparky93 Posts: 392 Forumite
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    I have had samsungs for a while, from a ace, s2, s3 and now s5.
    Always used smilies :-) and its not changed from sms to mms.
  • snozdop
    snozdop Posts: 12 Forumite
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    sparky93 wrote: »
    I have had samsungs for a while, from a ace, s2, s3 and now s5.
    Always used smilies :-) and its not changed from sms to mms.

    As clearly stated in the second sentence of article, this issue affects image-based emojis, NOT text-based smileys.
  • sparky93
    sparky93 Posts: 392 Forumite
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    oops :-) :-P , o well, down to silly users then,
    image = picture.
    picture = image.
    both = mms. dur.
  • snozdop
    snozdop Posts: 12 Forumite
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    sparky93 wrote: »
    oops :-) :-P , o well, down to silly users then,
    image = picture.
    picture = image.
    both = mms. dur.

    Wrong. As also stated in the article (maybe you should read it?), this issue only affects Samsung phones released before April 2014.

    Emojis are just 4-byte Unicode characters shown as images by the handsets. Apple, HTC, Sony and Nokia phones all understand these characters and send emoji as SMS (text messages), and do not convert messages containing them to MMS (picture messages). Only Samsung phones have this problem.
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
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    snozdop wrote: »
    Only Samsung phones have this problem.
    It's not a problem, Samsung designed it that way on purpose to increase compatibility.
    To stop it from happening you can select Unicode as the default input method, or root the handset and modify a couple of lines of code within the SecMMS.apk application to make the change permanent.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    back in the day e.g 10 years ago everyone who sent MMS knew that if you added a pic/image then it would be an MMS.

    Clearly user error here.
  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    IIRC, doesn't it also only happen with the Samsung SMS app? I'm sure using emojis with a Note 3 and S4 they send as SMS with apps like GoSMS Pro.
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  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
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    Yes, it's not older Samsung phones that do this. It's older Samsung messaging apps that do this.
  • Phantom_Flan_Flinger
    Phantom_Flan_Flinger Posts: 2,794 Forumite
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    If I add an emoji to a text on my S4, I get a small message popping up to say that the text is being converted to a multimedia message. It is easy to miss though.
    Dave. :wave:
  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »
    If I add an emoji to a text on my S4, I get a small message popping up to say that the text is being converted to a multimedia message. It is easy to miss though.

    Change your messaging app, I've just tested it on a S4, Samsung Messaging app gets the "converting to multimedia" pop up and charges as an MMS while GoSMS Pro doesn't convert it and it's still sent as a text message (but the emojis are still sent).
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