Help smiley faces ( emoji) not working

[Garth Hedley]

i have recently got the moto g which i love apart from text message. this is beacause although i can see the smiley faces on the keyboard on my phone when im sending a text message ( emoji symbols etc) and can select them they dont appear in the message on my phone or do they appear in the text message the other end to the person ive sentt it to. they just get a blank bubble. If a friend sends me a message it will show up when i get their text with smileys etc so why cant i add the smileys to my text.the phone is 2 weeks old with the latest updates by the way. thank you

 

[Garth Hedley]

Messenger app - open messenger, tap t

hree dots top right - tap settings - tap advanced at bottom of view - turn off "simple characters only" - voila problem solved.

 

[Javelin10]

BE CAREFUL with changing the SMS encoding method to 'auto' if you have a UK carrier (and other countries, for all I know)!

The reason is, your phone may send SMS with emojis as multimedia messages which in the UK are charged at up to 40p per message. I got caught out like this a couple of times. One poor fool on TV the other night got a bill for £900 in one month!!

 

[LittleMax]

This sounds a lot like the problem I was having. You need to go into the options of the messaging app and change the character encoding. I changed from "gsm, 7 bits" to "auto"

Thank you - so easy when you know how. But been bugging me for ages. Everyone can get santa emojis on their christmas messages now!

 

[Harry Nguyen]

You can go to this emoji web app, it is an online emoji picker with an extensive search functionality

 

[Motog emoji]

This sounds a lot like the problem I was having. You need to go into the options of the messaging app and change the character encoding. I changed from "gsm, 7 bits" to "auto"

That worked amazingly. Thank you.

 

[destinier2134]

Thanks! I tried the default settings and it didn't work. I found out they weren't working when my husband kept asking why I was sending blank texts...haha

So I was having the same issue not being able to send emojis how I resolved my issue was by going directly in messaging app selecting the three dots on the right hand side. From there I selected settings. Select on advanced sms/mms settings and I scrolled to the bottom where the simple characters only was turned on I turned it off and it fixed my issue