Hello, all...
I've asked this question in the leak thread, but it moves so fast that I don't think a lot of attention is being paid to it.
So, I'll try to make it quick. When I installed Beans's pre-rooted 4.4.2 leak ROM, I realized that the emoji being displayed in Hangouts were different - not the typical Google emoji, but more similar to the emoji that you find in Go!Messenger, Handcent, and other SMS apps that support emoji.
I suspect that Samsung has included their own emoji, and had them baked into Hangouts, but I can't seem to fix it. Even by removing hangouts and installing it from the Play Store, or restoring from Titanium Backup.
When I choose to add a smiley in a Hangout... I can see them in the list... but when I pick one, it switches to some other (samsung's?) version of it in the text box, as well as the conversation. My friends see the normal one on their end... and likewise when they send me one, it shows up as the alternative.
Is anyone else seeing this issue? I'd think that I would have seen it mentioned.
I found a thread on an HTC device that advised a user with a similar issue to rename a stock font, and I tried a similar approach, with no results.
With my DPI changed to 320, I can't even tell what emoji are being used, as this new brand is much smaller than the standard ones.
This bugs me. I want the google emoji back.
Any help? Thanks!
DrPhant0m said:
Hello, all...
I've asked this question in the leak thread, but it moves so fast that I don't think a lot of attention is being paid to it.
So, I'll try to make it quick. When I installed Beans's pre-rooted 4.4.2 leak ROM, I realized that the emoji being displayed in Hangouts were different - not the typical Google emoji, but more similar to the emoji that you find in Go!Messenger, Handcent, and other SMS apps that support emoji.
I suspect that Samsung has included their own emoji, and had them baked into Hangouts, but I can't seem to fix it. Even by removing hangouts and installing it from the Play Store, or restoring from Titanium Backup.
When I choose to add a smiley in a Hangout... I can see them in the list... but when I pick one, it switches to some other (samsung's?) version of it in the text box, as well as the conversation. My friends see the normal one on their end... and likewise when they send me one, it shows up as the alternative.
Is anyone else seeing this issue? I'd think that I would have seen it mentioned.
I found a thread on an HTC device that advised a user with a similar issue to rename a stock font, and I tried a similar approach, with no results.
With my DPI changed to 320, I can't even tell what emoji are being used, as this new brand is much smaller than the standard ones.
This bugs me. I want the google emoji back.
Any help? Thanks!
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I would love to know how to fix this as well
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I've succeeded in breaking it even worse. Through some hellish combination of renaming some fonts with "emoji" in the name in /system/fonts... and using the font installer in ROM Toolbox Pro to hack things up even worse... I now just have standard non-color (black lines on background) emoji in hangouts. ugh!
Can't someone smarter than me tell me how to fix this?
DrPhant0m said:
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I've succeeded in breaking it even worse. Through some hellish combination of renaming some fonts with "emoji" in the name in /system/fonts... and using the font installer in ROM Toolbox Pro to hack things up even worse... I now just have standard non-color (black lines on background) emoji in hangouts. ugh!
Can't someone smarter than me tell me how to fix this?
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Put the two .ttf files in your /system/fonts folder (backup originals if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Put the .xml file in your /system/etc folder (again, backup original if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Reboot phone, and hopefully everything works fine
LoneAsp said:
Put the two .ttf files in your /system/fonts folder (backup originals if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Put the .xml file in your /system/etc folder (again, backup original if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Reboot phone, and hopefully everything works fine
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That was your first post? I'm honored to have popped your xda cherry.
I tried the switching and renaming of fonts biz... and it hasn't worked. However, the mention of this xml file is new to me.
Can you elaborate? When/where/how did you learn of this approach?
DrPhant0m said:
That was your first post? I'm honored to have popped your xda cherry.
I tried the switching and renaming of fonts biz... and it hasn't worked. However, the mention of this xml file is new to me.
Can you elaborate? When/where/how did you learn of this approach?
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I didn't like the stock emoji on the Note 3 so I decided to change it to the stock Android one. After searching online, I found that those files were the ones you need to change. I got them from a GPE system dump. The .ttf files are the stock emoji. The .xml file basically is how the fonts are prioritized (as far as I can tell) which makes the stock emoji default before the Samsung one.
Anyway, that's how I got it to work on my phone. I'm not exactly sure how/why it worked but it did for me.
has anyone else tried this, the samsun emoji are god awful??
I just used the method outlined by LoneAsp and it worked for me.
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I attempted the method described by LoneAsp and it didn't work for me. Not sure if it matters, but I'm using a Galaxy Note II on the DN3 ROM.
I downloaded Emoji Switcher (root) from the Play store and it seems to have done the trick. There are some missing icons, however, and I'm not sure if the author will be updating this app to use the updated font files anytime soon.
jp.esteban said:
I attempted the method described by LoneAsp and it didn't work for me. Not sure if it matters, but I'm using a Galaxy Note II on the DN3 ROM.
I downloaded Emoji Switcher (root) from the Play store and it seems to have done the trick. There are some missing icons, however, and I'm not sure if the author will be updating this app to use the updated font files anytime soon.
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I should have updated my OP... but I used Emoji Switcher to fix this problem, as well. I used the Samsung ones for a while... and I'm currently on the default Google ones. (The samsung ones include a few awkward-looking ones. Kind of creepy. lol) I haven't noticed any missing icons. Which ones are missing?
With my modified DPI (changed to 320 from 480)... the icons were so small that they weren't fun to use or receive... so I used an xposed module, App Settings, to change the font scale to 200%. This makes longer messages kind of a chore, but overall I'm glad the text is so much bigger. The emoji are much better, that's for sure.
Speaking of Hangouts and xposed modules... I also recommend "Stickers for Hangouts" which enables "add sticker" and "add drawing" to your attachment options in Hangouts. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quinny898.app.stickersforhangouts
Until now... "stickers" were only an option in the iOS version of Hangouts. Does that make sense? (answer: no)
Thanks LoneAsp!!
LoneAsp said:
Put the two .ttf files in your /system/fonts folder (backup originals if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Put the .xml file in your /system/etc folder (again, backup original if you want) and change permission to -rw-r--r--
Reboot phone, and hopefully everything works fine
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Thanks!!!, works great for me!!, Galaxy S4 i9500
I have done a bunch of searching and even found a specific Galaxy S5 thread with instructions to rename the NotoEmoji.ttf to something different and name AndroidEmoji.ttf to the originial Noto file name then restart. Seems simple enough and should essentially trick the system into using the other emoji .ttf file. However, this is not the case.
Has anyone has any luck, the TouchWiz emoji's are ugly and their expressions seem to differ from Google's somewhat.
Thanks for any assistance in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52397550&postcount=3
No way to do it without rooting?
Thanks a lot. I couldn't seem to find that thread.
@frezd91 no way to edit a system file without root
Is there a way yet to get the IOS emoji set system-wide on the xt1575? I don't ever want to see the built in android emoji set. I'm running stock rooted marshmallow 6.0.
kettir said:
Is there a way yet to get the IOS emoji set system-wide on the xt1575? I don't ever want to see the built in android emoji set. I'm running stock rooted marshmallow 6.0.
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You can replace your emoji's to look however you want if you can find a properly formatted ttf file for it. You just backup and replace /system/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf with your new font file, make sure permissions are set right (644), and reboot.
I've done some meddling with emojis on the 6.0 stock ROM, but not ios ones. This thread looks like it might have what you need.
Thanks for the advice. I did take a look at that thread and tried copying the .ttf file into system/fonts with the appropriate permissions, but it didn't seem to change anything. I took a chance and ran emoji switcher, and it seems to have done the trick. I went for the ios 7 emoji set, rather than the later set(s), due to the multiple colors of some of the later set icons that don't look right on a non-ios phone.
Since Emoji Switcher does not work.
Replace the "SamsungColorEmoji.ttf" file in system/fonts with this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/font-google-emoji-font-200-emojis-6-0-1-t3265883
And now you ditched the damn ugly fonts on TouchWiz.
NOTE: You need root access, otherwise you won't be able to do it
Wew. At last, saved from the TW emoji abomination!
any of you saved the default .tff file?
Hi,
Is there any possibility to change emoji system-wide without root access? I know how to do it with root, will it work if for example new font will be added or something similiar?
Thanks in advance
czito said:
Hi,
Is there any possibility to change emoji system-wide without root access? I know how to do it with root, will it work if for example new font will be added or something similiar?
Thanks in advance
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Hello,
Fro me, if you want to change the stock emoji library, you must have the root access because you will must replace (so change) ressources.
I can recommand you to use a temporary root access by flashing supersu 2.52 zip (you could find it by search on XDA the root solution for marshmallow:good.
Without root, for me its just impossible, or if you like works many hours, modify your ROM and change the permissions of the specifiq system folder that content emoji ressources files and re-flash your rom but its cannot be done succefully by any users..
=> So make an nandroid backup before make anything :angel:.
Good job!