iPhone 4 SMS tones

[Shaunye]

Does anyone know how to change the SMS tones to custom tones? I tried everything but can't get it to work. My phone is jailbroken. Can someone please help? Thanks

[Mr. B]

BiteSMS and ToneFXs are two apps that accomodate this. You can change the exiting files via SSH

Transfer SMS Tones to iPhone | Change Text Message Tone iPhone | iPhone

[Shaunye]

I don't see the ui folder. Could it be somewhere else?

[Shaunye]

I used iPhone explorer but when I look for the ui sound folder, it's not under audio.

[M3th0s]

Ok, heres what you do, sftp into your phone go to-
System

Library

Audio

UIsounds

now scroll down to where you see sms-received1.caf thru sms-received6.caf these are your stock sms tones! And to answer your question you will rename YOUR sms tones to sms-received1.caf and so on, for example:

"Godfather.mp3", you will need to convert this with an audio converter such as "Switch Audio Converter",to "Godfather.aiff", then after that, you rename it "sms-received1.caf", then you replace the original one with this one by dragging it over to the original one and copying it, a window will pop-up saying "do you want to replace this file", just click yes!!! But when you look in your phone, by going to Settings - Sounds - New Text Message, you will still see your stock sms tone names ie: Tri-tone, Chime, etc., so just listen to them 1 by 1 to see which is which !! You can also do this to any file that has a .caf extension like new-mail.caf,sent-mail.caf and even the dialing numbers of the dialer. Sorry if this not quite "direct-to-the-point" but i'm really better at showing then explaining... Anyway, just post-up again if you have anymore questions. Good luck mate!

[Shaunye]

i followed your instructions but when i drag the new tones over to the old tones, a window doesnt pop up asking to replace it

[kyouri]

What if UI folder doesn't exist under Audio? I only see MIDI Drivers and Plug-Ins

[Shaunye]

i found the problem. it wasnt working because of the theme i had set.

[syntax-error]

Default SMS tones not working anymore on iP4 running on 4.3.3

Here's what I did, followed the get an mp3 and or a ringtone then convert it to .aiff; after converting, change the extension to .caf; after changing the extension browsed my iDevice with ifunbox navigated to /System/Library/Audio/Uisounds/ copied a dosen tones (well hoping it would appear on settings -> sounds>) after of which i renamed sms-received1-6.caf to sms-received1.caf.bak (one by one to 6), then since I already had a couple of tones already in the DIR i renamed 6 tones to sms-received1.caf so on.

rebooted, literally a clean power cycle. after booting, quess what, sms tones aren't working anymore.

the work around I did, installed toneFXs instead since I use to have this application as well.

But I just wanted to know if maybe somebody knows the cause of the Default tones not to work.

[Laynpipeallday]

Default SMS tones not working anymore on iP4 running on 4.3.3

Here's what I did, followed the get an mp3 and or a ringtone then convert it to .aiff; after converting, change the extension to .caf; after changing the extension browsed my iDevice with ifunbox navigated to /System/Library/Audio/Uisounds/ copied a dosen tones (well hoping it would appear on settings -> sounds>) after of which i renamed sms-received1-6.caf to sms-received1.caf.bak (one by one to 6), then since I already had a couple of tones already in the DIR i renamed 6 tones to sms-received1.caf so on.

rebooted, literally a clean power cycle. after booting, quess what, sms tones aren't working anymore.

the work around I did, installed toneFXs instead since I use to have this application as well.

But I just wanted to know if maybe somebody knows the cause of the Default tones not to work.

Im having the same problem!! I have no sounds with texts typing, slide clicks or anything like that??? I restored the whole UI folder and still nothing. Any suggestions?

[dercoun65]

Im having the same problem!! I have no sounds with texts typing, slide clicks or anything like that??? I restored the whole UI folder and still nothing. Any suggestions?

me too! i have the same problem. please help!!!!