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Sending Emotions on text messages and £85 bill for it!

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Can somebody please tell me if it is right that a 'smiley face' or other type of emotion you choose is classed as multi media, as I have just been slapped with an £85 bill this month! It should be £25. I have 500 free texts which is what I thought I was doing! Has anybody else encountered this?

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Can somebody please tell me if it is right that a 'smiley face' or other type of emotion you choose is classed as multi media, as I have just been slapped with an £85 bill this month! It should be £25. I have 500 free texts which is what I thought I was doing! Has anybody else encountered this?


I send smiley faces daily and I've never been charged any extra. The smiley faces etc that I send are the Emoji ones. The Emoji (smilies etc) keyboard is included with iOS 6. To access them you do the following:

 

Go into Settings/General/ scroll down till you see keyboard, touch this. On the next screen where it says Keyboard, touch this. Next touch add keyboard. On the next screen scroll down the list till you see Emoji, touch this to add it, and you will now have access to all the Emoji icons, smilies etc by touching the little globe symbol to the right of the 123 key on the on screen keyboard.

 

The only explanation I can think of for your £85 charge is that you have the show subject field switched on in Settings/Messages. Go into Settings/Messages, and scroll down and you will see "show subject field", check to see if yours is switched on or off.

 

The show subject field is used in/for MMS messaging. It is very easy to write the text, insert the smiley etc into the subject field line/area, rather than the line underneath. If you write text, smileys etc in the subject field it will be sent as a MMS message rather than a normal text/SMS message.

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I have an iPhone 4s if that makes a difference and send texts with emotions only to other iPhones.

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My S3 converts a sms to mms just by insering a symbol from the keyboard. Doesn't happen if you type '3 degreesC' but does if you insert the symbol for 'degree'. But at least you get a warning.

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The problem is with apple iOS as you don't get a clear warning when the phone converts an sms into an mms.
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Hi

You can turn the mms feature on and off in the iPhones settings.
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Depends on what kind of emotion it was really.

Were you using a standard colon, close bracket one?

Or those emoji things?
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Anonymous
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Pixie, it's certainly possible and down to your handset's way of converting SMS to MMS. Turning MMS Off on your phone should stop it from happening again.
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@Anonymous wrote:

Can somebody please tell me if it is right that a 'smiley face' or other type of emotion you choose is classed as multi media, as I have just been slapped with an £85 bill this month! It should be £25. I have 500 free texts which is what I thought I was doing! Has anybody else encountered this?


I send smiley faces daily and I've never been charged any extra. The smiley faces etc that I send are the Emoji ones. The Emoji (smilies etc) keyboard is included with iOS 6. To access them you do the following:

 

Go into Settings/General/ scroll down till you see keyboard, touch this. On the next screen where it says Keyboard, touch this. Next touch add keyboard. On the next screen scroll down the list till you see Emoji, touch this to add it, and you will now have access to all the Emoji icons, smilies etc by touching the little globe symbol to the right of the 123 key on the on screen keyboard.

 

The only explanation I can think of for your £85 charge is that you have the show subject field switched on in Settings/Messages. Go into Settings/Messages, and scroll down and you will see "show subject field", check to see if yours is switched on or off.

 

The show subject field is used in/for MMS messaging. It is very easy to write the text, insert the smiley etc into the subject field line/area, rather than the line underneath. If you write text, smileys etc in the subject field it will be sent as a MMS message rather than a normal text/SMS message.

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http://bit.ly/13rWyPo has o2 info on this issue

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