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HOW-TO to put ringtones on your iPhone !

Yeah I tried but my phone went into some kind of disk mode and I only had like 200 megs avaliable. Restored it..seems to be back to normal. I'll wait a little while before I try that again..
 
Stella said:
Changing ring tones should be trivial, especially in a $500 phone!
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Indeed. This is crazy. It takes me a whole 2 steps to put a custom ringtone on my current Sony Ericsson Phone (Sony of all things!)-

1. Plug in phone via USB (or switch on bluetooth).
2. Drag file to phone.

the end.

I've decided I'm not going to buy an iPhone in the UK unless+until this kind of nonsense is sorted out, it's just silly.
 
skiwildcat7 said:
Does anyone know what all those "dtmf" named files are? They're under the system sounds.
Thanks
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"Dual Tone Multi-Frequency":-

They're the digital tones that each number key makes when you press it, when in "old fashioned" dial mode. A different sound for each number (just like a standard landline).
 
awesome.

this is amazing! only after 3 resets haha i finally put 6 custom ringtones i made in garageband 3. no matter if you really mess up (trust me, i got ever single message everyone keeps saying they got) all you need to do is restore your iphone to factory settings and POOF! you can try again until you get it!

next i'll change the sounds for email, sms, and other random stuff! and i SUCK at computers =]
 
Honestly, I know nothing about the terminal, or any of this hacking/programming stuff - and I added about six new ringtones on my first try. No problems at all. I LOOOOVE these people! I'm so excited.

Next, I was going to try to tackle some of the message alerts, but I've yet to find anyone who's actually mapped which alerts are which. Maybe I'll just try one or two of the obvious ones, like 'new-mail.caf'.

Yay customized phone!
 
Porco said:
Indeed. This is crazy. It takes me a whole 2 steps to put a custom ringtone on my current Sony Ericsson Phone (Sony of all things!)-

1. Plug in phone via USB (or switch on bluetooth).
2. Drag file to phone.

the end.

I've decided I'm not going to buy an iPhone in the UK unless+until this kind of nonsense is sorted out, it's just silly.
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Your loss.... :p
 
Does anyone know where to find the ringtone from the commercial? (Not the Marimba one from the keynote -- the very cell phone sounding ringer from the TV commercial.) If i can download that ring tone i will look into this further. It seems pretty easy from the instructions, i just don't have any good ring tone files :)
 
So what is the cause of the "can't connect to iTunes" problem? I followed the guide step by step and I am still getting that error. The ringtone is on the phone, but I don't want to restore it till activation goes back up.
 
itsallinurhead said:
So what is the cause of the "can't connect to iTunes" problem? I followed the guide step by step and I am still getting that error. The ringtone is on the phone, but I don't want to restore it till activation goes back up.
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you need to put the Services.plist file on your iphone again
 
MBHockey said:
Does anyone know where to find the ringtone from the commercial? (Not the Marimba one from the keynote -- the very cell phone sounding ringer from the TV commercial.) If i can download that ring tone i will look into this further. It seems pretty easy from the instructions, i just don't have any good ring tone files :)
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do you have GarageBand installed? If you do, look inside /library/audio/apple loops/apple/iLife sound effects/work - home/
 
Any progress on maybe having a Software made tha can easily do the ringtone u just add the ringtones to da fone...? It's be AWESOME!!
 
i followed the Windows version instructions and it worked like a charm! i have been able to put mp3 and AAC ringtones on my phone. Very happy!!!
 
So i have been contemplating weather or not i should give this a try or not, and finally i couldnt take it any longer and decided to go for it. After about the third step i managed to do something wrong and had to restore my iphone. Lucky me at&t is doing some maintenance or something like that so im going to have to wait untill 3 P.M. eastern central time to try and reactivate my iphone. I hope its going to work! Talk about bad timing, this really sucks! Luckily for me i live in Hawaii so 3 P.M. EST is only 9 A.M. over here but still i dont feel rite with out my iphone working properly. I dont know if i will be able to sleep tonight! I guess this is a sign for me. I dont think im going to try again, i might do something even worse to it if i give it another go. Too bad i really wanted some custom ringtones on my phone. O well
 
skiwildcat7 said:
Does anyone know what all those "dtmf" named files are? They're under the system sounds.
Thanks
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Now I'm really glad I don't have an Intel Mac. I'd be sooo tempted to replace those with recordings of myself going "boop" "boop" "beep"! :p
 
I was able to follow the 'hacktheiphone' instructions with no problems. I've loaded 8 custom ringtones - this is great! It went very quick also - it takes me about 2 minutes to load ringtones using this method.

One note - not sure anyone has said this here or not - the name for the ringtone listed in the 'Ringtones' menu takes itself from the filename. I originally thought it was reading the ID3 tags. I went in, deleted the original files I had put there the first name, renamed the ringtones on my Mac & ran through the process again.

Thanks!
 
Carrier logo = "Apple"

Following THESE INSTRUCTIONS I was able to replace my carrier (AT&T) logo.

I'm a little too old for 'pwn3d' so I created my own. My iPhone now says "Apple" where the AT&T logo was.

Sweet...
:cool:

Edit: Man that's hard to see, anyhow, it's white "Apple" text
Edit 2: Sorry, forgot the black text
 

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Quick q to you guys, when you put ringtones from iTunes is it the whole song or is there a way to clip it to like 10-15 seconds of what you want to play?
 
To Steve TheBusDriver

steven-maloneys-computer:~ stevenmaloney$ cd ~/Desktop/iPhone\ goodies/tools/
-bash: cd: /Users/stevenmaloney/Desktop/iPhone goodies/tools/: No such file or director

Steve it looks like the script is not properly escaping the directory name with the embedded space or else that directory doesn't exist.
 
Recovery through iTunes

Hi, FWIW just wanted to share my own failed attempt with you. I was unsuccessful following the HackiPhone instructions due partly to the format of the ringtone. I used Fission to create what were supposedly iPhone formatted tones which it saved as a .m4v not .m4a. iphoneInterface happily put several of them onto the phone but then produced an error Signal report without much detail. I then tried to put the Services.plist back and it failed. I then tried to restore using iTunes and got unable to connect to iphone on sync with the 0xE8000022. Further attempts to run either jailbreak or iphoneInterface failed with an unable to connect to phone AFC error. at this point, iPhone was still working fine but was unable to sync and if iTunes could not connect to it, no restore was possible. Even the dudes at the Apple store were unable to restore it. i was still within the 15 days of purchase, so i got a new phone, but you might not be so lucky...
 
Avataristic said:
Hi, FWIW just wanted to share my own failed attempt with you. I was unsuccessful following the HackiPhone instructions due partly to the format of the ringtone. I used Fission to create what were supposedly iPhone formatted tones which it saved as a .m4v not .m4a. iphoneInterface happily put several of them onto the phone but then produced an error Signal report without much detail. I then tried to put the Services.plist back and it failed. I then tried to restore using iTunes and got unable to connect to iphone on sync with the 0xE8000022. Further attempts to run either jailbreak or iphoneInterface failed with an unable to connect to phone AFC error. at this point, iPhone was still working fine but was unable to sync and if iTunes could not connect to it, no restore was possible. Even the dudes at the Apple store were unable to restore it. i was still within the 15 days of purchase, so i got a new phone, but you might not be so lucky...
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I used Fission too, but after cutting it up and making it sound the way I wanted to, I brought it into itunes and under the "Advanced" menu it allows you to "convert selection to AAC". That makes it an .m4a and they all worked perfectly.

I even changed out my new mail and new text notifications. WOOHOO!
 
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