iPhone 4.2 how-to: Setting custom SMS alert tones

Is there an app that I can download so I can look for a new ringtone for my iphone. I don't like any of the ringtones that come with my iphone, but I don't see an option to "add a ringtone." Any help is appreciated!

Ref: "Update: Reader Peter Park, a database admin by trade, wrote in to say how much he appreciates the longer alert tones -- when you're depending on an SMS message to wake you up in the middle of the night when a server is offline, you want to make sure you hear it. Point taken!"

Disagree--traditional tones and settings before this updated also allowed users to continue getting an alert for the same msg until you open it. At this point, I would have rather had some custom email notifications than the SMS. What a sad update.

This is one of the things I have been waiting for to come to the iPhone for YEARS. Blackberry has had this feature FOREVER. Now Apple just needs to add a third choice to contacts -- "EMAIL TONE" -- so you can have a custom alert tone sound when an email arrives from that contact. Again, BB has had this forever. These 2 features alone are what prevents me from switching to the iPhone.

Now if you could also assign your own custom tone (instead of the prepackaged ones), WITHOUT jailbreaking. Come on, Apple....

With regard to adding new SMS tones you said

"Even if you have the new tones, what you see is what you get; you still can’t add your own custom SMS tones without jailbreaking. "

I immediatly brighteded up and Clicked on the Hyper link only to find this ,

"To follow this tutorial you will need to have jailbroken your iPhone and installed OpenSSH"

Please get your facts right or attach the correct hyperlink .

Thanks :)

What I'd really like is a way to set different vibrate patterns for texts vs alarms vs emails, like a single medium buzz for email, two medium-short buzzes for a text and 3 super-short buzzes in quick succession for an event alarm.

C'mon Apple, my old Kyocera 7135 smartphone could do that 10 years ago!

The hardware in the 3Gs and earlier iPhones cannot handle Text Tones, Airplay, and Free Find My iPhone evidently, or that will probably be the line an Apple spokesman will give if anyone ever gets the opportunity to ask them a question about it. But based on past experience, no one will have this opportunity, nor will they ask this important question when they do, for fear of never ever being given an opportunity to ask another question in their life. Lest anyone think I'm an Apple-basher, I have owned an original iPhone and currently use a year-old 3Gs. The very idea that after this short a time this phone is being relegated to non-supported status galls me to no end!

not one new one is usable for SMS.. I want to use my own! 1/2 second to 1 sec MAX.

Worst text tones ever

Apple is a for-profit company. No matter how well (or poor) there products are designed, what matters is their bottom line. Giving your 3G[S] HDR, find my iPhone, new SMS ringtones, and any other feature that seems reasonable to implement from a software standpoint decreases their sales because it means you'll hold onto your phone quite a bit longer than they want you to. That means decreased sales. That means unhappy investors.

It's not rocket science, and certainly what every other company does. There always needs to be enough reason for you to upgrade to the next thing. Otherwise, bye bye marketshare. The war between manufacturer and consumer ensues..

I got excited when I read "custom.". To me this means create your own. I'm gonna miss my xbox achievement sound when I lose my jailbreak by upgrading.