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New iTunes 7.4.2 and custom ringtones workaround
This guide is obsolete. Check out the ultimate iPhone page here.
Note: it won’t work with iPhone 1.1.1. It is only tested under iPhone 1.0.2
iTunes updated again. The new iTunes 7.4.2 which deletes your iPhone’s custom ringtones. (again) This is not the case for us, actually. So we tested for another method to get it work with the custom ringtones. Here is how we did successfully under Mac OS X.
This method use iNdependence 1.2.1 and everything seems working fine:
Step 1. Make your ringtone to m4a file. You can convert it easily by right-clicking the file from iTunes and choose ‘Convert selection to AAC’
Step 2. You will see a duplicated files in iTunes, that will be the AAC files. Select the AAC files in iTunes, than choose ‘Show in Finder’.
Step 3. You will see your converted m4a files, copy it to somewhere else. I copied it to MacBook hard disk.
Step 4. Open iNdependence, quit all the iTunes stuff. Choose ‘Customize’, than choose ‘Ringtones’, and ‘System’. Click ‘Add’ to add the file you made in Step 3.
Step 5. Restart your iPhone by pressing the Power button, slide to power off and power it on again. You will see your custom ringtones.
Although this does not have the ability for you to choose which ringtone you would like to sync, but I think this at least make your iPhone not just having those default sounds.
7 Comments
1. iTunes 7.4.2 - Zurück zu&hellip replies at 18th September 2007, 7:19 pm :
[...] Doch was soll’s. RingRong funktioniert vorerst nicht (wir arbeiten an einem Update) mit dem aktuellen iTunes-Release. Die alte Methode, Klingeltöne via SSH auf das iPhone zu schieben, sowie die die Nutzung kommerzieller Tools (Win - Mac) sollte jedoch weiterhin klappen. Ein kurzes Tutorial, Klingeltöne mit Independence auf das iPhone zu kopieren findet ihr hier. [...]
2. Simplified ultimat&hellip replies at 20th September 2007, 4:33 am :
[...] Step 5. I have also chose to ‘customize’ and add new ringtones. It works perfectly after sending the ringtones that is m4a format. If you don’t know how to change mp3 format to m4a, click here. [...]
3. Jason Belec replies at 5th October 2007, 8:28 pm :
Excellent and thank you. Now my iPhone has the lightsaber dual as the ringtone, stunning!
4. dosn't matter replies at 7th October 2007, 10:51 pm :
how do i get iNdependence? tell me i need 2 no this one.
5. admin replies at 7th October 2007, 11:17 pm :
dosn’t matter,
you can get iNdependence by clicking the link above. … or here:
http://code.google.com/p/independence/
6. Ultimate guide to &hellip replies at 18th October 2007, 3:37 am :
[...] file you want to AAC format. If you don’t know how to do it, follow the step 1 to 2 from this guide.Notice it won’t work if your ringtone is longer than 1 [...]
7. $15 new iToner use&hellip replies at 19th October 2007, 5:19 am :
[...] SendSong actually add custom free ringtone using the same way that iToner uses (except SendSong won’t accept mp3 files for ringtones). It is definitely more freeware able to add the free custom ringtone very soon. So, why pay $15 for it? Hmmm. I think because it accept mp3 files. True? Easier than converting by yourself, right? (Follow step 1 - 3). [...]
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