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How to enable Japanese emoji :) icons without jailbreak
While most of the people enable Japanese emoji 
letters by modifying system files, here is a solution that lets you to use it without jailbreak or modifying any files. It uses the technique to import 27 address book contacts in iPhone, and recall it using the Japanese keyboard. Note this will make 27 new contacts to the iPhone. You may want to create a new group for that.
Step 1. Download the vcard.vcf here.
Step 2. Import it to your address book program. If you are using Windows, you may want to do it on iPhone directly. Send the vcard.vcf file to yourself. Open in on iPhone’s Email.app, click the vcf file and import all the contacts.
Step 3. Go into “Settings” > “General” > “Keyboard” > “Japanese Keyboard”. Enable the QWERTY keyboard.
Step 4. In notes or any other program you want. Type “emojia”, “emojii” or “emojiu” to select those icons.
Step 5. Happy Emoji!
[via iPhone/iPod touch lab][Japanese Content]
12 Comments
1. Enable Japanese Emoji (Em&hellip replies at 19th December 2008, 1:50 pm :
[...] can enable those great looking Japanese Emoticons without Jailbreaking your iPhone. winandmac.com has an interesting way to do [...]
2. Alex replies at 2nd January 2009, 2:51 am :
How do I download the vcard?
I clicked on it but all it did was just take me to a page with lines and lines of text…
i emailed the link to my iphone, but when i tried opening the link in safari it said that it could not download …
how can i import it to my address book program in windows?
(will it overwrite my current iphone address book if i have contacts in my phone that i do not have in my address book on my computer?)
3. admin replies at 8th January 2009, 9:34 pm :
Alex,
You will need to right click and save link as.
4. Krystal replies at 9th January 2009, 9:03 am :
It does not give the option to save link as. It has the save target as? But what program do you save it under. I have tried several different things but nothing will open it.
5. Damien Benoit replies at 29th January 2009, 11:17 am :
Dude, just save target as (same as save link as) and from the desktop, use your google or whatever email client to email it to whatever your iphone email is, and open that message and you can download it on your phone………
6. kathleen replies at 30th January 2009, 6:50 am :
i must be missing something. i got through step 3 but nothing happens when i type emojia
7. kathleen replies at 30th January 2009, 7:14 am :
nevermind I got it!
8. Enable Emoji Icons for Fr&hellip replies at 11th February 2009, 3:09 am :
[...] users had to resort to a slew of different hacks and methods (done through jailbreak apps or the importing 27 contacts trick) in order to enable the very popular Emoji icons found on Japanese iPhones. Now a simple [...]
9. Daisy replies at 12th February 2009, 4:57 pm :
can only people with iphones see texts with emoji? Ive treid texting a friend that has a jailbroken iphone but she never recieves them. But she has a TMobile not At&t. Who can receive them?
10. admin replies at 13th February 2009, 1:38 am :
Daisy,
people using iPhone with the latest firmware can receive the text/SMS with emoji. It doesn’t matter what carrier recipient using, or whether it’s jailbroken or not. They can all receive the SMS.
11. winandmac.com&hellip replies at 16th February 2009, 4:06 am :
[...] I wrote about how to enable the emoji icon using the address book contact technique. It involves importing many contacts to iPhone/iPod Touch. Now, here is an even more simpler way to enable emoji on iPhone system-wide without jailbreak. Some tech sites said you can use $0.99 Frost Place. But here is the new way to have emoji completely free. [...]
12. corn-fused replies at 1st April 2009, 11:30 pm :
i must be missing something. i got through step 3 but nothing happens when i type emojia
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