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Custom Text message alert sound (without jailbreaking)
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Can I jailbreak my iPhone 4 just to allow for custom SMS alert sounds?
How difficult is it to jailbreak an iPhone?
How difficult is it to jailbreak an iPhone?
You could not be more wrong. All it takes is a simple restore and they could never tell you were ever jailbroken. Have taken my phone in many times after being jailbroken with no problems. Learn your facts before you post! Good luck
You do know that
1. Jailbreaking nulls your warranty and you can't get ANY help with your iphone or ipod if you do it
2. It pretty much kills your battery and your phone lasts like half the time.
right?
Those are both negative enough for me that its not worth it.
Yeah... even Ericsson can do that
I don't get it. Why can't you do these simple tings on an iPhone when you can do it on i.e. even an old ericsson? I just got OS 4.2 and the new sms-signals are... BAH!
This is even worse than not being able to watch flash
I don't get it. Why can't you do these simple tings on an iPhone when you can do it on i.e. even an old ericsson? I just got OS 4.2 and the new sms-signals are... BAH!
This is even worse than not being able to watch flash
Reasons
It's pretty simple actually. The sounds are iconic and apple knows that by forcing us all to use those sounds every text you get is an add for the iPhone. That is really the only reason. It actually is proven to increase profit.
Otherwise I would like my custom sms tones myself and am not willing to jailbreak my phone. Not yet at least.
It's pretty simple actually. The sounds are iconic and apple knows that by forcing us all to use those sounds every text you get is an add for the iPhone. That is really the only reason. It actually is proven to increase profit.
Otherwise I would like my custom sms tones myself and am not willing to jailbreak my phone. Not yet at least.
NOt
well it is nice to customize. but what if something went wrong with your iPhone. with the programing, or you broke the screen. when you jailbreak it, it voids the warrenty on it. and the iPhone 4 now, it tells you that when you are jb-ing it, and that you have to cont. to jb it if you want to upgrade the firmware. it is a hassle.
Apple just needs to let us customize our own ringtones on iTunes.
well it is nice to customize. but what if something went wrong with your iPhone. with the programing, or you broke the screen. when you jailbreak it, it voids the warrenty on it. and the iPhone 4 now, it tells you that when you are jb-ing it, and that you have to cont. to jb it if you want to upgrade the firmware. it is a hassle.
Apple just needs to let us customize our own ringtones on iTunes.
this is a petition to Apple to allow custom SMS feature in future update
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/custom-sms-alert-sounds-for-iphone/
check it out and sign it if you are interested.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/custom-sms-alert-sounds-for-iphone/
check it out and sign it if you are interested.
It's not "simple" - rather it is pathetic and small minded. This is backwards thinking regarding functionality that should be free for any user to manage their phone as they wish, especially after paying godawful sums of money for it. And yet we must be forced to use our own phones as advertisement for the ever-greedy company?
Apple does NOT need more marketing exposure - after all they have practically every dimwit journalist in the world writing free advertisements for them, poorly disguised as "news".
Stop talking out yer a$$
You do know that
1. You restore back to stock and your fine. If you bring your phone somewhere to get looked at and you leave it in a JB state....well thats your own fault.
2. Maybe that is your experience with a JB, but i have never had any issues with my battery. It all depends on what you have running.
Im curious...did you in fact ever JB your phone?
I 100% agree, TayDub has been feed to much BS they are starting to spew it out on to others, every waranty is voided if your send back a product in an alterted state, but like jasvncnt says you restore it back to stock new phone phone using itunes and the jailbreak is erased, your not phyiscally changing hardware with a jailbreak its software and a restore erases all the jailbreak files. as far as battery you are wrong again mine is the same, now you can install tweaks/apps/widgets that use data/battery like weather widgets or video wallpapers so ya that uses more battery but that jailbreak itself is not using anything more
Finally! A voice of reason! LOL...Im so glad your on this forum...Thanks. I get tired of people just thinking they know this and that or just because they had a bad experience it must be like that for everyone. I say jailbreak it! If you dont like it for what ever reason....just restore.
Especially since the JB tools we have today are so straight forward and simple. not like the ones back in the beginning with the original iphone
why do you sya it's so easy to jb...
I will say I'm No expert with computers but I can't JB my iphone 3G I keep getting firmware error or if I skip that I get to limera1n and it gets stuck. went though site easyiphoneunlocking.com PAID the stupid fee and for what NOTHING. There support stinks too!!! I'm running version 4.3.3 on iphone 3G and I simply want text tones to be able to be customized. Really? what the heck is so hard with this???? Any one help??
I will say I'm No expert with computers but I can't JB my iphone 3G I keep getting firmware error or if I skip that I get to limera1n and it gets stuck. went though site easyiphoneunlocking.com PAID the stupid fee and for what NOTHING. There support stinks too!!! I'm running version 4.3.3 on iphone 3G and I simply want text tones to be able to be customized. Really? what the heck is so hard with this???? Any one help??
iphone 4 default theme is crap I have the ferrari theme on mine and it looks awesome. I have custom notes, text theme, ferrari slider and custom text alert sending and receiving
YES you can without having to jailbreak.
Go to Contacts app, select & edit the person you'd like to assign a custom sms alert. Then under custom ringtone you'll find text tone field. Change it to a custom tone. TADA!
I don't know when apple added this but I just found it out. I'm running 4.3.3 using iPhone 3GS.
Go to Contacts app, select & edit the person you'd like to assign a custom sms alert. Then under custom ringtone you'll find text tone field. Change it to a custom tone. TADA!
I don't know when apple added this but I just found it out. I'm running 4.3.3 using iPhone 3GS.
Custom tones don't show up in the list when you go to the Text Tone page from a contact.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I read posts all the time and I never joined til now but if I'm not mistaken you can change your text tone by actually changing the sound file for the text directly from the root of the phone using apps such as disk aid. I've actually succeeded in changing the tones so that when you change the text sound to Chime for example I have the Metal Gear Solid Codec sound. My iPhone is JB but I directly implanted it to the root of my phone so when I take off the JB features I use it still rings with the MGSC sound if you'd like I can find the page I read how to change the root sound files. Its just a matter of changing and renaming the files accordingly.