Smileys/Smilies on Palm Treo Pro

[MaxLaw843]

:confused:

Indeed I am confused: How do I use smileys on my Treo Pro in an SMS (text message)? There are some on the phone, according to a folder on the phone, but do not know to use them...no pop up like on my old Palm Treo 680....and do not care to type in things like a colon followed by a closing parenthesis, to result in this: :)

[nispen]

Palm has dropped their own sms app in favor of the standard WM6 sms app. That does not support smileys. You could just do them by hand though ;).

:confused:

Indeed I am confused: How do I use smileys on my Treo Pro in an SMS (text message)? There are some on the phone, according to a folder on the phone, but do not know to use them...no pop up like on my old Palm Treo 680....and do not care to type in things like a colon followed by a closing parenthesis, to result in this: :)

[berdinkerdickle]

Yep, too bad :(
You just have to type them in.

[bones boy]

You could send your texts as MMS and then you have the smileys. If you have an unlimited everything account then who cares? Although you might look like a douche to your recipients...

[MaxLaw843]

You could send your texts as MMS and then you have the smileys. If you have an unlimited everything account then who cares? Although you might look like a douche to your recipients...

I have tried the MMS route, as I rarely send texts except to my wife (and she knows what a geek--Etc.--I am). She never gets them...do not know if it is because she is on Verizon (on a Palm 755p) and I am on T-mobile (with 400 texts a month for $5). So....don't know why it is never getting through to her.....

[Lawmen23]

I also miss having the smiley button. I preferred the old palm sms over the microsoft sms, and I tried installing the old palm sms but found I was then not able to use MMS. So I am now using the microsoft sms and found a quick smiley trick. When typing a message, if you want to enter a smile, frown or wink....hit the Alt button then hit option semi-colin....it will bring up those 3 smileys as options. Hope this helps.

-CC

[wallen]

Can't you just use Smiley SMS?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328363

[MaxLaw843]

I also miss having the smiley button. I preferred the old palm sms over the microsoft sms, and I tried installing the old palm sms but found I was then not able to use MMS. So I am now using the microsoft sms and found a quick smiley trick. When typing a message, if you want to enter a smile, frown or wink....hit the Alt button then hit option semi-colin....it will bring up those 3 smileys as options. Hope this helps.

-CC

Thanks...now if that isn't a hidden trick for WinMo 6.1, I don't know what is.
Wonder how many people (other than you...and now me) know about that trick? :)

[MaxLaw843]

Can't you just use Smiley SMS?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328363

Nope...from what I see, Smiley SMS only displays Smileys in your text message, and does not allow you to insert one.