Droid SMS alert on the iPhone

Nov 1, 2009 Author: Veronica | Filed under: apple, babble, funny, video

Ryan has been quite taken by the Droid SMS alert sound (as evidenced by the most recent gdgt podcast) so I decided it would be fitting to make it his ringtone on my iPhone when he calls.

Unfortunately, I realized after the fact that it would have been much funnier to make it the default ringtone on his phone for all calls. You can get the sound here for your own personal enjoyment.

I used MakeiPhoneRingtone after converting the .wav to .aac, but you can also use Fission, GarageBand or the myriad other methods available.

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20 Responses for "Droid SMS alert on the iPhone"

John F November 1st, 2009 at 10:50 pm 1

Cool! Are you or Ryan getting a Droid of your own? Leo saw Natali’s and fell in love!
Chris Heath November 1st, 2009 at 11:10 pm 2

V,

What i’ve really been waiting for is a way to make sms tones for the iPhone… do you know if/when/how that can be done?
Veronica November 1st, 2009 at 11:14 pm 3

Chris, that’s an interesting question, and one I haven’t thought of before (although I’m surprised it didn’t come to mind when I was making the Droid SMS sound a ringtone and not a text message alert on the iPhone). I’ll look into it! Sounds like something you can probably do with an unlocked device.
Torsten November 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 am 4

To use it as a New Message tone, you need a jailbroken iPhone and a AIFF version of the file. Or download the already converted and renamed file: http://snipurl.com/t0b8s

In iTunes change the Import settings in Preferences to AIFF, add the droid sound to the iTunes library and right-click it, pick Convert to AIFF, drag the new AIFF file to the desktop, rename it to sms-received6.caf.

Connect to the iPhone via SCP and go to /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/. Rename the existing sms-received6.caf to sms-received6-org.caf, and upload the new droid sms-received6.caf. Go into Settings and Sounds, pick Electronic as the new SMS sound. Voila!
Todd November 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am 5

I made a ring tone out of the DROID TV advertisement – MP3 is here:

http://drop.io/ctcnexd

Currently using it on my ADP1

Enjoy!
Shane November 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am 6

Thanks for the link to the wav – off to annoy people with some awesomeness.
pastorhudson November 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm 7

I can’t believe you have to actually jump through hoops to make an iphone ringtone. #thatblackberryguy
martymankins November 2nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm 8

Always nice to have a tech g/f to make a tech b/f happy.
Daniel Essex November 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm 9

@Chris Heath:
I don’t know if you can do it with a vanilla iPhone but if you have a jailbroken one it’s a simple case of replacing your desired system sound with a sound of the same name.
SSH to their location here:
/System/Library/Audio/UISounds/
The messaging tones are under
/System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received1.caf
through
/System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sms-received6.caf
and correspond to the sms sounds list in order (so sms-received1=tri-tone whilst sms-received6=Electronic)

(Pretty much same as what Torsten said,except you don’t need to fiddle with AIFF files – just rename the extension to .caf and it should work)

@Veronica
Come on girl, surely you should know the difference between an unlocked device and a jailbroken one
Veronica November 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm 10

Hah, you’re right, I did mean jailbroken, of course. A beer on a late Sunday evening will do that to a girl once in a while
Hadii' November 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 am 11

Did you jailbreak your iPhone, Veronica?
Dave S. November 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 am 12

Hey Veronica – thanks so much for mentioning MakeiPhoneRingtone! I’ve been looking for an easy way to get my own ringtones on the iPhone for months, and every other way I’ve tried has failed miserably. But that cute little program works perfectly. Thanks!!
Hummy November 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 am 13

I do love my iPhone but the Droid and the promise of what further enhancements Google’s Android platform fill me with great desire!
MicheleDM November 5th, 2009 at 5:30 am 14

Thank you Torsten for the converted file, I’m scp it right now
Nick November 8th, 2009 at 7:04 pm 15

“Oh, AT&T.”

LOL.

Well said.
anonyroot November 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm 16

Veronica, doesn’t AT&T support some type of service that lets the caller hear a song or tone? For example T-mobile has CallerTunes(R).

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/addons/Services/information.aspx?PAsset=MusicAndSounds&osid=24bdb5d5-6718-46fa-8afb-dae07de9b3d2&tp=Svc_Tab_CallerTunes

You can setup so that a caller can hear a custom ring instead of the standard beeping before you answer your phone.

I think you should punish ( i mean “treat”) him to your droid tones.
Nazz November 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm 17

Her iPhone is obviously Jailbroken
Veronica November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm 18

No, my iPhone is not jailbroken. What leads you to think that? I gave pretty clear instructions on how to do this in the post.
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DanDee January 19th, 2010 at 7:31 am 20

You only have an iPhone 3G and not a 3GS?? Poor girl… Hahaha *lol* *rofl*