Custom Ringtone Not Syncing (Solution)

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So I was trying to create my own ringtone and I followed all the guides here, youtube, google, etc... I made my .m4r ringtone using the aac encoder and shaved it down to 30 secs, but when I went to sync, it would complete but it wouldn't transfer the song over.

I've noticed many people have had this very same issue but no one provided a solution so I thought I'd share what I did.

You will need to have your iPhone jailbroken and OpenSSH installed. Then scp the ringtone to /var/stash/Ringtones ringtone directory, i.e. from Terminal > <directory your ringtone is stored><ringtonename>.m4r root@<ipaddress>:/var/stash/Ringtones/

Obviously replace the tags with your own values.

Also, I believe with this method you don't need to restrict your ringtone to 30 seconds.

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you do not need to be jailbroken to get custom ringtones onto you iPhone 3G I am not JB and I have the latest update and have custom ringtones for all my contacts with no ssh/JB needed.

If you go under edit/preferences then click the ringtone box you can drag the ringtones onto iTunes from your desktop then either manualy drag the ringtone(s) over onto you iPhone device in the left menu

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you do not need to be jailbroken to get custom ringtones onto you iPhone 3G I am not JB and I have the latest update and have custom ringtones for all my contacts with no ssh/JB needed.

If you go under edit/preferences then click the ringtone box you can drag the ringtones onto iTunes from your desktop then either manualy drag the ringtone(s) over onto you iPhone device in the left menu

Yes I realize that but many people have been having the same problem I have been having. Where it looks like your ringtone has been ported over but then it doesn't show up on the ringtone section (on the phone). Thats why you scp it over and, hence, you need JB

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try deletingvall the song info that seems to cause issues when adding ringrones one being multipule coppies of the same ringtone.

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try deletingvall the song info that seems to cause issues when adding ringrones one being multipule coppies of the same ringtone.

oh.. interesting. cool. thanks. i'll try that

Sweet. Yes, that works!