Yes, I usually put a wall mounted phone, but my sims can't interact with it at all. It's basically just a sculpture at this point!

It's more a case of a sim renting an apartment, and then after having bought a phone for the apartment and playing the houeshold for a while, the receiver just disappears. Interesting yours can use public phones, I've never been able to interact with any I've put in communal areas!

Have you tried resetting the phone(s) by forcing an error with testingcheats enabled? Sometimes, on rare occasions, I've had sims set the handset down and not put it back on the base. I don't know if there's a personality trait that influences that (lazy? sloppy?), but I know it can happen. Perhaps your sims are just setting them down in odd spots and you're not finding them. But anyway, resetting the phone by forcing an error might also reset your handset problem. Give it a whirl... it's worth a shot. What's the worst that could happen? =)


-gE
>=)

Lately, I have been throwing graduation parties for my Sims in college, which I didn't hardly ever do before, and I really like the cut scene that comes at the end of the party. I wish the photo they took during that cut scene was an actual photo that they could keep and hang on the wall. It's always so fun to me to see who is in the photo with them.

I use ScreenToGif to automatically make screenshots. If you then alter the screenshot and put it in the right folder, they can make a painting of the pic.

Actually, if you take the images that go into a character's profile in SimPE, convert them into jpegs, and then place them in the 'pictures' folder, they will paint them as a 'still portrait' if they have a high enough creativity level.

https://chickadeelee.livejournal.com/13521.html
You can take a screenshot and make it into a photo using the antique camera using this workaround.