Well, I can lose my phone for two weeks, while it's repaired under warranty, or if I take it directly to the Apple Store in Sydney CBD they will probably swap it out for me on the spot.

Guess where I'm going tomorrow ?

Soooo....

Swapped the phone, and for the last week it's been "Fingering Itself"

it's like a ghost is randomly pressing the screen and activating stuff.

Back to the Apple Store today. Sigh.

Phone swapped painlessly - new phone is behaving itself. Yay !

So I'm reading the 213-page User Guide for my new iPhone. It seems to me the thing in my hand is more powerful and functional than the spacecraft that traveled to the moon.

And yet ... I cannot download my own ringtones to the device who's central function is, by virtue of its name, a [/i]phone[/i]. This is not a technical limitation of course, but a copyright issue, I suppose. Yet I cannot tell you how annoyed I am that I can practically perform heart surgery with this thing, yet I cannot use my custom ringtones (most of which, by the way, cannot be purchased on iTunes - which is the only authorized way to add a ringtone to the iPhone). Bah.


From what I understand, the iPhone uses an odd sound format for its ringtones. Does anyone know of a hack that will allow me to get from a standard sound format to their weird sound format and upload it to the iPhone as a ringtone?

In return, I will gladly remove your gallbladder with my iPhone when you need that procedure performed.

If you have an MP3 of the song you want (or even ringtone in mp3 format), you can do it with iTunes.

http://www.demogeek.com/2009/07/31/h...o-your-iphone/

Oooh, assuming this works, you have one free gallbladder operation coming your way, buddy.


(Can be substituted for an appendectomy if you name your first child after a Haunted Mansion phrase or character.)

There's a great Mac application called Fission. It's a really simple audio editing program - lets you edit mp3s without changing format, for example. It also lets you save any part of any audio file as an iPhone ringtone.

Or for those with PC's - this is the best way to add ringtones.

The iPhone can do anything.

Garage Band can too apparently.