iPhone Tutorials: How To Use Custom SMS Alert
The following steps can be used to customize your iPhone SMS alert tone. However, non-jailbroken iPhone users cannot customize their incoming SMS alert tone.
Importantly, one need to have OpenSSH installed on the iPhone if not then Install OpenSSH by:
1) From your iPhone Springboard, go to Cydia -> Sections -> Networking-> OpenSSH
2) Once OpenSSH is selected, tap on the Install button on top of the screen and Confirm
3) Once OpenSSH has been installed, tap on Return to Cydia to finish
Using Custom SMS Alert Tone
1) You need to have the sound clip you want to use for the SMS alert on the iTunes Music library. Open iTunes and drag this sound clip from your computer into the iTunes library.
2) Press Ctrl, (On Windows) or Cmd, (On Mac) to open Preferences on your iTunes Library
3) Under the General tab, Click on “Import Settings” button.
4) You will now see an ‘Import Using’ option. Select ‘AIFF coder’ in the drop-down menu option and finally click OK
5) Now in the Music library, right click on the sound clip you wish to use and select ‘Create AIFF Version’. You will now see a duplicate version of the sound clip created.
6) Drag the duplicated version back to your Desktop folder and rename it as sms-received6.caf. Actually, there are six incoming SMS tone slots and so you may use any one of sms-received1.caf through sms-received6.caf.
7) On your iPhone Springboard, press Settings -> WiFi and tap the blue arrow against your WiFi network. Note down your iPhone’s IP address
8 ) Launch Fugu from your Applications folder and enter your SSH credentials. Your username shall be ‘root’
9) Enter your password in the next screen to authenticate. You may try ‘alpine’ if you are not sure of the password. On a side note, please remember to always change your password for security purposes. You can check our tutorial here to learn to change password.
10) From the toolbar open the GoTo window and enter ‘/System/Library/Audio/UISounds/’. Select ‘Remotely’ and click Go.
11) On the right pane of the window, look out for the sound clip you want to replace (sms-received6.caf). Right click or Control-click on the file and select ‘Rename’. Rename the file to sms-received6.caf.bak .
12) On the left pane, click on the sound clip file (sms-received6.caf) to drag and drop it in the right pane. The sound clip has been replaced. Alternatively, you could also use a tool like DiskAid to copy the sound clip to the UISounds folder, which you might find a lot easier.
13) Reboot your iPhone and go to Settings -> Sounds -> Next Text Message.
14) If you had used sms-received6.caf for your sound clip, locate the sixth sound clip (After None) in the list to start using the new sound file.
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