Ringtone in iPhone Ringtone folder, not on phone

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Ringtone in iPhone Ringtone folder, not on phone

I had 4 ringtones on my iPhone 3G. I made a few more ringtones tonight: used audio editing software on a song, selected a 15 sec clip, bounced each as AAC, put each on my Mac desktop, changed each extension to .m4r, and dragged each to both the iTunes Ringtone folder, AND the iPhone Ringtone folder. As I dragged them to the iPhone folder, the SYNC IN PROGRESS prompt came up on the phone, so I knew it was doing something. The first one went fine. Then, the second one ELIMINATED the first on the phone, even though the iPhone folder in iTunes shows both ringtones. I changed names, used a different song, and tried a number of suggestions on the web, but I cannot get any other of my homemade ringtones to "take" on the iPhone, even though they are in the iTunes>iPhone>Ringtone folder. I now have 8 ringtones in each folder (iTunes and iTunes>iPhone), but only 5 ringtones on the actual iPhone.

If the iPhone only holds 5 custom ringtones, why doesn't it eliminate the oldest one, and keep adding new ones? Plus, I read one poster who has 27 ringtones.

They are all .m4r, all less than :16 sec, all playable in iTunes, all in Ringtone folders, but I cannot get the iPhone to recognize them. I have 7GB of free space on my 16GB iPhone 3G.

Any help would be terrific.
rcarbaugh

Power Mac G5 dual 2.0, MacBook Pro, iPhone, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Logic Pro 7, MOTU Ultralite

Posted on Nov 22, 2009 7:54 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 28, 2009 5:26 PM in response to rcarbaugh

I am having the same exact problem, which is quite frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

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Answer 2

Nov 29, 2009 5:44 PM in response to rcarbaugh

I also would like information on this. How many ringtones, or total size, does the Ringtone section of my iPhone 3 (ie 8 GB) hold? Can I extend the size of this by reducing the amount of music in the music memory? How can I delete a Ringtone no longer wanted? Can I delete any of the built-in (horrid) ringtones?
My reason for question is that I have created four new ringtones, less than 30 secs each, all showing successfully in my iTunes Ringtones folder -- but they won't sync into my iPhone.

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Feb 25, 2010 5:35 AM in response to rcarbaugh

also would like to know how to load multiple custom ringtones.
can load one at a time and they work fine but each added one replaces the previous one.
I would love to know if i can load multiple ringtones and assign them
how many and how to do it.
not much fun with onlyone custom ring tone at a time.

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Answer 4

Feb 26, 2010 5:39 AM in response to rcarbaugh

I think I have worked it out

1. make ring tones
2. have to set to sync ringtones in mobile phone menu on computer
3. add ringtones
4. sync and they all go in - cannot drag ringtones to phone etc
problem is that syncing ringtones will also invovle songs and this will remove music as well by default so backup music first!

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