class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/texting.png" alt="iphone sms ringtones" />One of the most talked about features of Apple’s href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-release-build-ios-5-news/">new mobile operating system is the ability to add custom SMS and alert tones to your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone. Back in the old days the href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone limited users to only a few SMS tones, which is why everywhere you went all you heard was that annoying tritone sound. Thankfully, with iOS 5, Apple included many more ringtones right off the bat, and you can add more to give yourself the greatest texting experience.

Finding new tones to put on your phone is another issue, since you have either to make them yourself, buy them, or find someone who is putting them out for free. Thankfully, there is a free app in the href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone app store that makes adding new SMS tones free and easy, aptly named href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">SMS Tones. While it does not have millions of SMS Tones to choose from, it certainly has enough to keep you busy and keep your phone sounding fresh.

Download The App

Head over to the iTunes app store and search for SMS Tones Free or simply click  href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">here, and download the application. As I said before, the application is available for free, and they offer a $.99 upgrade that gives access to many more SMS Tones. The free version grants access to over 40 tones, so there is plenty to keep you busy for a while.

Choose Ringtones

When you open the application, you are greeted by the list of available ringtones. Oddly, they are not in alphabetical order. Still, sifting through them to find the one you are looking for is not hard.

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To hear what the tone sounds like, simply tap it once, and the application will take a second to load the preview. You can play the preview for as many SMS tones as you like without committing to add any of them to your phone.

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Once you play a preview of a tone, a little circle will appear next to the name. If you want to add a ringtone, simply click that circle and the ringtone will be queued to add to your phone.

Getting Ringtones On The iPhone

Sadly, simply adding the ringtone in the app is not the last step for adding it to your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone. Apple requires you to add ringtones through iTunes via synchronizing, so even with this app you still have to go through that process.

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• First, have whatever ringtones you want selected, this way when you connect your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone to iTunes the tones will appear under File Sharing.
• Go to the File Sharing tab in iTunes and copy the ringtones anywhere on your computer.
• Then, drag the files back to your library in iTunes, and make sure ringtone synchronizing is on before you sync your device to add the new tones.
• The last step in getting the ringtones on your device is to click Sync in iTunes and let your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone run through the sync process.

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Now that you have finished putting the SMS tones on your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone, go to Settings and then Sounds. From there, you will be able to change your alerts for SMS, Email and most other sounds the phone makes. The new items you downloaded will appear in the list, and be ready for use on your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone.

Conclusion

With href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">SMS Tones, adding some cool new sounds to your phone is free and easy. Simply follow these steps, and in a few minutes, you will be able to free yourself from the built-in tones that everyone has, and give your phone a little more personal flair.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/texting.png" alt="iphone sms ringtones" />One of the most talked about features of Apple’s href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-release-build-ios-5-news/">new mobile operating system is the ability to add custom SMS and alert tones to your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone. Back in the old days the href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone limited users to only a few SMS tones, which is why everywhere you went all you heard was that annoying tritone sound. Thankfully, with iOS 5, Apple included many more ringtones right off the bat, and you can add more to give yourself the greatest texting experience.

Finding new tones to put on your phone is another issue, since you have either to make them yourself, buy them, or find someone who is putting them out for free. Thankfully, there is a free app in the href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone app store that makes adding new SMS tones free and easy, aptly named href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">SMS Tones. While it does not have millions of SMS Tones to choose from, it certainly has enough to keep you busy and keep your phone sounding fresh.

Download The App

Head over to the iTunes app store and search for SMS Tones Free or simply click  href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">here, and download the application. As I said before, the application is available for free, and they offer a $.99 upgrade that gives access to many more SMS Tones. The free version grants access to over 40 tones, so there is plenty to keep you busy for a while.

Choose Ringtones

When you open the application, you are greeted by the list of available ringtones. Oddly, they are not in alphabetical order. Still, sifting through them to find the one you are looking for is not hard.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1.png" alt="iphone sms ringtones" width="426" height="640" />

To hear what the tone sounds like, simply tap it once, and the application will take a second to load the preview. You can play the preview for as many SMS tones as you like without committing to add any of them to your phone.

class="aligncenter" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img2.png" alt="sms ringtones for iphone" width="426" height="640" />

Once you play a preview of a tone, a little circle will appear next to the name. If you want to add a ringtone, simply click that circle and the ringtone will be queued to add to your phone.

Getting Ringtones On The iPhone

Sadly, simply adding the ringtone in the app is not the last step for adding it to your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone. Apple requires you to add ringtones through iTunes via synchronizing, so even with this app you still have to go through that process.

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• First, have whatever ringtones you want selected, this way when you connect your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone to iTunes the tones will appear under File Sharing.
• Go to the File Sharing tab in iTunes and copy the ringtones anywhere on your computer.
• Then, drag the files back to your library in iTunes, and make sure ringtone synchronizing is on before you sync your device to add the new tones.
• The last step in getting the ringtones on your device is to click Sync in iTunes and let your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone run through the sync process.

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Now that you have finished putting the SMS tones on your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone, go to Settings and then Sounds. From there, you will be able to change your alerts for SMS, Email and most other sounds the phone makes. The new items you downloaded will appear in the list, and be ready for use on your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/iphone/">iPhone.

Conclusion

With href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8">SMS Tones, adding some cool new sounds to your phone is free and easy. Simply follow these steps, and in a few minutes, you will be able to free yourself from the built-in tones that everyone has, and give your phone a little more personal flair.

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People love to personalize things that they own to make those items stand out among other similar items that other people have. We can see examples everywhere such as people painting their houses with different colors, styling their hair, using and customizing different themes for their blogs, putting their laptops into colorful cases, and customizing the ringtones for their phones.

If you own an iPhone and you want to use your favorite songs to personalize it, but you don’t want to pay another buck for each song that you already own to have those songs converted into ringtones; here’s a fun and free way to do it.

The Preparation

For those who love Garageband, you can use that amazing music maker to create ringtones. But for today’s discussion, we’ll use a small free program called MakeiPhoneRingtone.

This program can quickly turn your favorite songs into iPhone-compatible ringtones. However, there are limitations to this feature: you can only use AAC files, and the ringtone duration is limited to 40 seconds. A set of preparation steps is needed prior to the conversion process. But don’t be afraid as we can do everything using iTunes.

• The first step is to convert the songs from MP3 into AAC. Open “iTunes – Preferences” menu or use “Command + Comma“.

• Open the “General” tab and click the “Import Settings” button.

• Choose “AAC Encoder” from the “Import Using” field, and choose “iTunes Plus” quality from “Setting” for the best quality.

• Find the song(s) that you want to use as a ringtone, right click and choose “Create AAC” version from the pop up menu.

• You can also access this option from “Advanced – Create AAC Version” menu.

• The song(s) will be converted by iTunes into AAC, and the process will take about several seconds for every song. After that, right click on the converted song and choose “Get Info” from the pop up menu.

• Choose “Options” tab and set the Start and Stop Time to fit the 40 seconds duration. If you want to go the easy way, just choose 0:00 for the start time and 0:39 for the stop time.

But why go the easy way when you can go the fun way? You can set the start and stop time in the part of the song that you like the most. Play the song and notice the time of the beginning and end of your favorite part.

Even though you can adjust the precision to one-thousandth of a second to get the perfect timing if you want to, my experience has told me that one-tenth precision is enough. For example, you can set the time to 1:12.5 (one minute twelve point five seconds) or maybe 3:42.73 (three minutes forty-two point seventy-three seconds).

This might look tedious, but I personally find the process of determining the perfect beginning and ending of the ringtone fun and addictive. The 40 seconds limit just make the “estimating game” more challenging.

Then repeat the “Create AAC Version” process to the adjusted song, to get the less-than-40-second fragment.

The Making Of The Ringtones

• After getting the perfect slice of the song, right click on the item and choose “Show in Finder“.

• Open MakeiPhoneRingtone and drag that short AAC Version (with the “.m4a” extension) to the app.

• If the edited song is more than 40 seconds, you’ll get a warning (and an offer to try a paid audio editor by the same developer).

• If you do everything correctly, you’ll get your ringtone in iTunes’ “Ringtones” folder in just a blink of an eye.

• Repeat the process for other songs.

Syncing & Using Ringtones

• To make sure that your newly created ringtones find their way to your iPhone, go to the “Ringtones” tab and check the “Sync Ringtones” box before you synchronize your phone.

• Then click the Sync button.

• In iPhone, you can use different tones for different person. You can also use customized ringtones for your Alarm.

• To assign a ringtone to a contact, select a person and tap on the ringtone option. Choose one of the “Custom” tones and tap “Save“.

• The same thing goes for assigning custom ringtones to your alarms. Open one, tap “Edit” and slide right. Tap “Sound” and choose your preferred sound.

After using the method several times, I began to look at (or listen to?) my song collection differently. Now I always try to find parts of the songs that would make cool ringtones.

What about you? Do you personalize your contacts with different tones? Do you know other free methods to convert your favorite songs into ringtones?  If so, please share using the comments section below.

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******************UPDATE******************* Please make sure you do this first before you do anything else! It’s very important that you do because many people get stuck because of this: ****Go to CONTROL PANEL – FOLDER OPTIONS – CLICK ON VIEW – SCROLL DOWN AND DISABLED “HIDE EXTENSION FROM KNOWN FILE TYPES” **** Here is a way to get free ringtones for your iPhone. NOTE: -This will work on any iPhone and it DOES NOT have to be JAIL BROKEN for it to work* -The ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less to work* -If your having problems or it’s not working, please contact me and I’ll make sure it works for you* What you will need: -iTunes -Any format other than “m4a” (music from iTunes Store) kinda of music. Ex. Music from Lime wire or Bear Share will work* —————————————————————————————————————————– 1. Open up iTunes and highlight the song you want to create as a ringtone. 2. Right click the song and go to “Get Info”. 3. Determine the which part of the song you want the desired ringtone to start and finish (30 seconds or less) 4. Check both “Start” & “Finish” on the section box and input the “Start” & “Finish” time for your ringtone. Ex. Start time: 0:00 Finish time : 0:30 4. Create an “ACC VERSION” of the song you chose. 5. Drag the newly created “ACC VERSION” (30 Second) to the desktop. 6. Click on the file to change the extension from “m4a” to “m4r” and a window will pop up, just click YES …

if you are having trouble go to the following link TROUBLESHOOTING AND FAQ VVVVVVVVVVV www.freewebs.com **************************************************************** I will be showing you how to make ringtones from any song in your iTunes library (Windows ONLY) for free without have to pay to make a song from iTunes crappy ringtone list or any programs other than iTunes.. Its simple and easy to do ** to get the ringtones section in itunes go to edit/ preferences and check the box that says ringtones ** I HAVE FOUND THE SOLUTION TO WHERE IT APPEARS AS A BUNCH OF COPYS OF ONE RINGTONE IN THE CUSTOM RINGTONES SECTION ON YOUR IPHONE! I will post a video explaining how to fix this problem .. it is very simple Thank you! here is the link youtube.com *** Instead of draging the ringtone to the desktop all your have to do is right click the song in iTunes and press open in explorer then rename it from .m4a to .m4r www.metacafe.com sry if the video speed it a little to fast i needed to make it less than 10 so i went for around 5-6 mins www.iclarified.com www.freewebs.com ************************************************************************************************************************ ********************************************************

In the competitive world of Telecom Industry there are various companies which are manufacturing multi-purpose mobile in which majority of companies are indulged in the process of making mp3 ringtone features mobile.

The mp3 ringtone is a very great feature in a mobile which helps the customer to set there favorite mp3 ringtones according to their relation with other person and must buzz when they call them. These ringtones can be downloaded from various site on Internet but there is a condition applied that there are limited Mp3 ringtones which can be downloaded on to limited mobiles.

These Free Mp3 ringtones can be easily downloaded on a personal computer and later on can be transfer from personal computer to mobile. Some of the free Mp3 ringtone are need some download software which helps a mp3 ringtone to download easily on the personal computer. Nowadays there various sites on the Internet which are making some tie ups with Bollywood film makers who provide a kind of assistance to them as to sites in charge give the facility for Download mp3 ringtones of there movies which are last released and when its being demanded by the customers they can easily provide them at glance.

Mp3 ringtone is a kind of facility which is been carried by a mobile in which there are various taste of songs are in a mobile and can be buzz when the mobile rings on a call. The mobile rings the full song when it is been ordered to ring on a call. Nowadays the are some mobile manufacturing companies are having the feature of Internet in the mobile by which customer can excess the mobile for Internet and they can easily download mp3 ringtones for the related sites on a instant effect.

Limited sites on the Internet are having various categories of mp3 ringtones. If any customer needs classical then they can opt for a classical MP3 ringtone. Some sites are carrying jazz and blues MP3 ringtones are for people who enjoy a sexy, solitude moment. However, if they are in the mood for some hard music, then include a rock MP3 ringtone in your tone lists. Then at the same time can also try alternative music as an MP3 ringtone to balance their mood.

With the passage of couple of years, the option of download MP3 ringtones became the most important options of the gadgets, which started facilitating the users to replace their earlier tones with the new ones without any interruption. Some of the people purchase those handsets that have the ability to support the MP3 music file formats. It can also be referred to as a perfect option to attract your nearest and dearest ones. Moreover, customer can also impress there relatives around them with the current and awesome tones. Quite interestingly, most of the people are always keen to change their ringing tones at regular gaps as they feel proud to show off their style.

HE’S BRITISH ZOMG! *Update* Thank you so much for all the kind words! Just helping people in the same situation i was in a while back! -JC How to get a snippet of a song on your itunes library as a ringtone on your very own Apple iPhone!

I have a new channel called livewithdavid cheak it out and thinks! youtube.com -I give directions on how to convert your songs in itunes to ringtones!

Motorola offers mobile users the option of sharing, downloading, as well as accessing cell phone features through a laptop and/or desktop computer. Highly recommended by customers, Motorola Phone Tools are considered a very important aspect for those who enjoy listening to music, chatting online, manipulating photos, etc.

It’s simple; there are two different ways to connect the Motorola cell phone to other devices. First, the Bluetooth feature, which provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, desktops, printers, digital cameras and even video game consoles. Besides Bluetooth, the Universal Serial Bus, or the USB cable, can as well be connected to other devices.

Before using either or connectors, the Motorola Phone Tools CD ROM is needed in order to start the program. Once the program is saved and stored to the PC, it’ll be a whole lot easier to access phone tools on the desktop.

There are several ways to get ringtones unto those phones.

Firstly; you can purchase the datacable and the software (Mobile Phone Tools) for the phone. You can get this at any phone outlet or even online. With this you can then create and transfer images, wallpapers, movies and mp3 ringtones to and from the phone.

Secondly; you can purchase the Bluetooth Dongle (USB Adapter), and then use this to transfer your images and ringtones from your PC to your phone and vice-versa. This will all be done using the bluetooth wireless technology.

Thirdly; you can go online and find some free ringtones that you like and then have them transferred to your phone directly off the internet using WAP technology.

You can also even get the ringtones texted using MMS to your phone or you can even have them emailed to you.

These are the best options for you to choose from. There are more but work with these for now. Oh and don’t get led on by these Network people that want to make extra money.

There are two ways of doing this. The first is using Bluetooth, which is a wireless connection and the second is using the data cable and Motorola Phone Tools (MPT). I would recommend that you use the data cable because it is very thorough and it has a simple user interface.

The data cable you can purchase at any phone store or even on Ebay. As for the software MPT, here is a link that you can use to download it.

If they ask for a password to open the file after you have downloaded it then you can try this:

Password: Freshwap.com

When you copy and paste the link, you will be directed to rapid share. Then you scroll down the page to the button ‘free’ located at the bottom of the second column. Click on the free button and then you will go onto another page. This page should have a timer counting down. This is how long you have to wait before you can download the file. When the timer expires, then you can enter the 3 character confirmation code that they give you, and then hit download and that’s it.

You will also need WINRAR, that is the software they use to zip the files. This you can get anywhere on the net but you can check: www.downloads.com if you don’t already have it.

in the new itunes 8.2 pdate me and some other people have been having trouble making ringtones in itunes. but i found a way to do it.

This tutorial shows you how to make a ringtone in itunes for free (On a mac). Then transfer it to your blackberry.

This tutorial shows you how to make a ringtone in itunes for free (On a mac). Then transfer it to your blackberry.

How to create iPhone ringtones On a Windows Pc in iTunes free and easy. This video was shot using iTunes 9 and Windows Xp sp3. Also tested this works with Windows Vista as well.

This is how you create your own ringtones without using special programs. You simply do it through iTunes and Windows. Absolutly Free. I don’t really check my videos for comments, so you probably won’t get and answer, but thanks for watching, hopefully it helped.

A simple step by step tutorial by CNET on now to create iPhone ringtones for free using nothing but iTunes 8, You can also avoid all this hassle and use free utility Ring Ring as shown here : www.megaleecher.net

Apple does not allow you to use mp3 files stored on your iPhone as ringtones. You may download ringtones from iTunes for a fee, but here is how to convert your own files as ringtones for free.