How do I anonymously send a ringtone to an iPhone?
February 3, 2010 5:16 AM Subscribe
How do I go around sending a ringtone to a UK iPhone customer anonymously? I don't want them to incur any charges or other costs as a result, nor be bombarded by subsequent ringtones by some overzealous ringtone company. I simply want a website where I can select the ringtone, enter their number and off goes the ringtone. I am happy to pay for it.
The reason I want to do this is that a friend of mine bears a striking resemblance to Jean Luc Picard. This fact has not gone unnoticed and hence he is called Picard by those who know him. I'd like to send him the ringtone which is the theme tune of Star Trek The Next Generation as something of a practical joke.
Any ideas?
The reason I want to do this is that a friend of mine bears a striking resemblance to Jean Luc Picard. This fact has not gone unnoticed and hence he is called Picard by those who know him. I'd like to send him the ringtone which is the theme tune of Star Trek The Next Generation as something of a practical joke.
Any ideas?
I am in the UK with an Iphone, sadly can't change my ringtone at all. Mine is a 3G, so I'm not sure whether this has been changed for the 3Gs.
posted by ellieBOA at 5:31 AM on February 3, 2010
posted by ellieBOA at 5:31 AM on February 3, 2010
Ringtones are managed through iTunes for the iPhone.
However the easiest way to send an audio file to an iPhone user would be through MMS or e-mail. You could email them a link to a M4A file and they would be able to play it on the iPhone.
posted by moochoo at 5:36 AM on February 3, 2010
However the easiest way to send an audio file to an iPhone user would be through MMS or e-mail. You could email them a link to a M4A file and they would be able to play it on the iPhone.
posted by moochoo at 5:36 AM on February 3, 2010
This page has some instructions for making a custom iPhone ringtone.
iPhone ringtones are just 30-second long iTunes music files, but instead of the file extention ".m4a" they have ".m4r" You can just email a file like that, and the recipient just needs to open it into iTunes and then sync to their phone.
posted by dnash at 8:04 AM on February 3, 2010
iPhone ringtones are just 30-second long iTunes music files, but instead of the file extention ".m4a" they have ".m4r" You can just email a file like that, and the recipient just needs to open it into iTunes and then sync to their phone.
posted by dnash at 8:04 AM on February 3, 2010
Best answer: You can't really do what you want remotely, assuming that what you want is for Mr. Picard to one day be surprised by his phone playing the TNG theme.
What you could do would be to set up a source to download the ringtone, then come up with some excuse to use his phone for a few minutes. Once you have his phone in hand, you could download, install, and set up the TNG ringtone.
You're not going to be able to push the ringtone to his phone and set the phone up to use it without physical access to the phone.
There may be a way to get in remotely through SSH and do this if the phone is jailbroken. However, there are lots of dependencies there. He has to have a jailbroken phone with SSH running, then you need to know the password, then you need to know the IP of the phone, etc. etc.
posted by chazlarson at 8:12 AM on February 3, 2010
What you could do would be to set up a source to download the ringtone, then come up with some excuse to use his phone for a few minutes. Once you have his phone in hand, you could download, install, and set up the TNG ringtone.
You're not going to be able to push the ringtone to his phone and set the phone up to use it without physical access to the phone.
There may be a way to get in remotely through SSH and do this if the phone is jailbroken. However, there are lots of dependencies there. He has to have a jailbroken phone with SSH running, then you need to know the password, then you need to know the IP of the phone, etc. etc.
posted by chazlarson at 8:12 AM on February 3, 2010
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posted by willmize at 5:29 AM on February 3, 2010