Here's a fix for the "N9 eats Emoji SMS silently" bug: http://thp.io/2014/emojifix/ The Emoji SMS Fix consists of a patcher utility and a drop-in library that can be used to fix a bug in libsms-utils, causing incoming SMS containing Emoji characters to be silently dropped. This fixes delivery of SMS to the SMS application. For actually displaying Emoji, you need to install Harmoji, which includes suitable fonts.