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Custom SMS tones in iOS4?
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It's not really an app - you have to SSH into your iPhone (using Cyberduck or something similar) and replace the sms sound files with your own sound files.
There's a bunch of decent youtube videos showing you how to do it step-by-step, it's really easy. Here's one. I love having custom tones for texts and such.
I can't imagine adding this feature (or at least upgrading some of the stock sounds - bell and horn, really? awful) would be that time intensive for Apple's programmers.
Anyway. Venting about this has actually been rather cathartic. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who is very WTF over this in general.
doubtful, but we'll see in 4 days
4 days? what are you living in the future?
Last time i checked it was at least 6 days.. (fri-wed, considering we get it thurs a.m.)
4 days? what are you living in the future?
Not necessarily. iOS4 comes out 6/21.
Not necessarily. iOS4 comes out 6/21.
haha, it's late. TOTALLY forgot that ios4 is being released earlier then the phones. Whoops!
There is an app but I forget the name...I did the jailbreak on my 3G a while back but reverted later. Google around and it will come up.
It is a bit tedious when you hear *ding ding* in a crowd and 15 people check their phones, BUT it's also nice to only have SMS ring tones to complain about at this point . Apple has come a long way with the iPhone. If this is all we have left to majorly complain about, I'll take it! Lol
. Apple has come a long way with the iPhone. If this is all we have left to majorly complain about, I'll take it! Lol
Yeah shame about this and i too will look into a jailbreak for my own ringtones if it's not an option Granted, Apple are dealing with alot of the legitamate reasons to JB and adding lots of features. But the reason they won't allow us to use songs as ringtones is because they have a service where we have to pay to convert a song into a ringtone. So yeah we can do it just we have to pay through iTunes.
We buy the phones at a real expensive price and then to get any major function or personalisation, we (not that we are forced to) give more money to Apple for doing so.
Why are you surprised? Not to sound harsh but this thread itself is a start reminder that apple has locked the phone down, in such a way so that you cannot have custom ringtones, unless you jailbreak the phone.
I'm just wondering if there's another way that someone hadn't tried...
Like those wizards of the Dev-Team with PwnageTool that basically rebuild the IPSW file... can't they just create a similar program that won't jailbreak the firmware, but squeeze in customized SMS and E-Mail tones that will be recompiled in a "legit" IPSW file that you can restore with iTunes?
UPDATE: I fired off a message to the Dev-Team... hopefully I'll get a response and post it here.
Like those wizards of the Dev-Team with PwnageTool that basically rebuild the IPSW file... can't they just create a similar program that won't jailbreak the firmware, but squeeze in customized SMS and E-Mail tones that will be recompiled in a "legit" IPSW file that you can restore with iTunes?
UPDATE: I fired off a message to the Dev-Team... hopefully I'll get a response and post it here.
I would point out that you can do your own custom ringtones without jailbreaking, hence the lack of custom text tones being a continued surprise.
Custom ringtones, but given that this topic has been raised many times - custom txt notification tones. It really shouldn't be a complete surprise to many people.