Loud iPhone Ringtones
July 1st, 2008
One of my biggest complaints with the first-gen iPhone was it’s weak ringer volume. I’d miss a ton of calls when walking around (maybe 1 in 10 - although I only get about 10 calls a year anyway, so…), and it really started to annoy me. That’s when I decided to take a look and see if it was the ringer, or the actual ringtones that were at fault. As it turns out, most of the sounds that come with the iPhone are just pathetically quiet. With a little time in Garageband (or QuickTime Pro), you can have some ringtones on your Jesusphone that are substantially louder than the default ones. Honestly, the first time I gave this a test run, it scared the hell out of me it was so loud.
The first thing that you do is find a track that is to your liking. If you have Garageband installed, there is a good cell phone ringtone in /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Work-Home/ and it’s called ‘Cell Phone Ringning.caf‘.
I made a copy of this file on my desktop and opened Garageband. From there, I just dragged the file onto the stage, clipped out the deadspace, and bumped the master track volume to the absolute loudest it would go. I exported it out to the desktop as an AAC file, and then opened up MakeiPhoneRingtone.app, which can be found here for free. Drag the exported song onto this app, and you’ll have the new ringtone in iTunes.
From there, you just sync up the new ringtone to your phone and change it in your iPhone’s system prefs. If you’re lazy, I’ve attached the m4a of the ringtone that I created. Enjoy!
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July 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
Hahaha - so you’re ringing at 11 while the rest of the world can only ring at 10?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
My phone is one louder.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Hey Daniel,
Just got the new iphone sorry to say that the problem persists on the new one too. I have missed around 20 calls that is not acceptable to my clients. I tried your advice but itunes would not accept it because it was not purchased from them…Sorry I did not get another phone. But thanks !!!!!!!!!!!