[ # ] Use DiskAid to Transfer Ringtones to iPhone 2.1 Firmware
/* Posted September 30th, 2008 at 11:51am *//* Filed under Apple, How-To, Music, iPhone */
DiskAid is a wonderful freeware program that directly connects to your iPhone’s file system through the USB cable, without requiring you to jailbreak your iPhone, install OpenSSH, connect your iPhone to wifi, figure out your iPhone IP address, and know how to FTP to it. With DiskAid, it’s possible to transfer your own custom ringtones to your iPhone for free without paying Apple’s iTunes store $0.99 and without using even iTunes itself!
Step 1: Create ringtones
First off, you’ll need to have a ringtone ready. To make your own, we recommend following our TechLogg tutorial to create free custom ringtones from songs you already have in your music library. Once you have a ringtone in .m4r file format ready, you are ready for the next step.
Step 2: Get DiskAid
Download the latest version of DiskAid which should support the latest iPhone 2.1 firmware and earlier. After downloading, install DiskAid. Connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable, then launch DiskAid.
Step 3: Transfer ringtones
When DiskAid pops up, it shows you the media view of your iPhone. The first thing to do is get to the root view of your iPhone by selecting it on the drop down on the lower left hand corner.
There will be a dialog which warns against messing with the root partition. Since you’re a fearless knowledgeable expert, click OK.
From Root on the left directory tree sidebar, navigate to Library -> Ringtones. You’ll see all your stock iPhone ringtones like Alarm.m4r, Ascending.m4r and so forth. Make sure you are looking at this directory before continuing to the next step.
Click on the “Copy File to Device” button on the menu bar with icons up top. Browse to the directory wherever you created your custom .m4r ringtones. Then click OK. Do this for each ringtone you wish to transfer to your iPhone.
When each ringtone is added, you will see it appear in DiskAid in your file system.
Step 4: Enjoy ringtones
When you are done, you can close DiskAid and disconnect your iPhone. To see your new ringtones, go to Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone. You’ll see your newly added ringtones in the “Standard” section.
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5 Responses to “Use DiskAid to Transfer Ringtones to iPhone 2.1 Firmware”
Comment from abdul [October 22, 2008, 7:58 pm] 
Comment from vinay [November 9, 2008, 4:44 am] 
Comment from Bo [November 9, 2008, 7:59 pm] 
“…without requiring you to jailbreak your iPhone…”. However since my phone is not j-broken I can’t read root. “….To access to the entire filesystem of you device, you need a jailbroken device. If not, only the “media folder” is available…”.
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Thanks for the waste of my time. ;(
You can create custom ringtones in itunes by
1. right click the song, go to options, and play time and adjust the settings so the start time and end time make a song up to 30 sec.(no more).. after this click ok
2. now right click the song again and click “Create AAC version” this will put a 30 second (or less) version of your song. [you can now un-do step one to make the song play as normal in your library]
3. now drag the new AAC song onto your desktop where it will appear as an icon with the name of the song with the file type .m4a
4. now delete the new AAC version of the song from your itunes library. *YOU MUST DO THIS
5. right click on the icon on your desktop and change the name from song title.m4a to song title.m4r the .m4r denotes ringtone
6. now just double click the icon and it will open in iTunes as a ringtone which you then can copy to your iPhone.
its not as complicated once you do this.
**** THE SONG MUST BE ORIGINALLY IN MP3 FORMAT, I HAVE NOT TRIED USING A SONG FROM ITUNES BUT IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THIS WILL NOT WORK****
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