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SMS Tones You Use

I just followed the instructions and now the tri tone is silent. It should be a song I put in - is it bad to put a 2:30 song in? Does this only work with 1 second sounds
 
Nrwrit3r said:
Is winterboard that bad? I just installed it to do this
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In my opinion, Winterboard isn't too bad if used sparingly. It's when you have tons of themes, each doing a separate small thing, that it starts to get unwieldy. Personally I've seen people who use Winterboard very responsibly and others who just go crazy. It's also not nearly as big of an issue on the iPhone 4 with its increased ram.

Personally I would rather take the extra minute to make the change in a way I know without a doubt will not affect performance.

Basically my side is this: Winterboard only does what you want it to. Don't blame the program when your desires get out of control.
 
Nrwrit3r said:
I just followed the instructions and now the tri tone is silent. It should be a song I put in - is it bad to put a 2:30 song in? Does this only work with 1 second sounds
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Well, if you use a long tone it'll play the whole thing every time you get a text (or up to a set length, but I don't know what that is.) At any rate, I'd think it'd be annoying as **** to have to sit through anything longer than a second or two anyway.

FWIW, when I've tried to use ringtones that are too long, none of them worked either. I'd imagine the same would hold true for SMS tones.
 
STEVESKI07 said:
What are you guys using to convert .m4r files to .caf files?
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What Anonymous6237 and Blueline29 said will work just fine.

Also, if you find high quality .wav files online all you have to do is change the extension and skip iTunes completely.
 
You dont have to use winterboard to change sms tones, just ssh using winscp.

I have the metal gear solid codec as the sms tone
 
I've replaced most of the system sounds with sound bites from GarageBand's collection.

My SMS tone is Electric Fly By 01
 
anonymous6237 said:
For whatever reason the phone will not allow for more SMS tones in the list. There is a way however to change the name of the ones you add so they accurately reflect what you added. This is at least a little better than having one named "Bell" which is actually "Captain, We're being hailed!"
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Can you please tell me how to do that? I downloaded some mp3 text tones from zedge.net but I don't know where to place them... thank you
 
anonymous6237 said:
How to add SMS tones through SSH: http://grncndy.com/2009/04/11/create-and-install-custom-sms-tones-on-iphone/

Changing SMS tone names:

1) SSH into phone and navigate to root/private/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/English.lproj

2) Copy the file "Sounds.strings" to your desktop

3) Using this URL (http://iappcat.com/plist/bin2xml) convert the Strings file to XML and open with your favorite XML reader (I used wordpad on windows)

4) You should see several strings with the names of the default iPhone SMS tones (Tri-Tone, Chime, Glass, etc.). These correspond to the sound files as follows:

sms-received1.caf = Tri-Tone (Note that this name is further down under "Default" in the strings file)
sms-received2.caf = Chime
sms-received3.caf = Glass
sms-received4.caf = Horn
sms-received5.caf = Bell
sms-received6.caf = Electronic

Change the name for whichever file you replaced with your custom sound

5) After backing up your original "Sounds.strings" file, rename your edited version "Sounds.strings" (CASE SENSITIVE) and copy back to phone.

6) Respring and Enjoy.
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Thanks a mil for the instructions... Worked Perfectly!!!
 
anonymous6237 said:
iRingPro has a ton of really "normal" sounding ringtones (which could be easily used for SMS alerts). They're $30 for all of their tones (about 160 total) but I'm pretty sure they're exactly what you're looking for.
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Anyone know of any other professional ringtone developers such as this one? They have some really nice ones.
 
Terminator .caf

Here's something I generated to sound like a Terminator (you know, the SkyNet kind). It's named for the mail tone, but you could use it for anything. It could be a bit long for the mail tone, but I'll use it for awhile to see how it goes. Figured I'd contribute since this thread helped me out.
 
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