Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Feb01

Adding custom text message sounds to your iphone

For this work your phone must be jailbroken.

  1. Open itunes and go into preferences.
  2. Under the general tab click the import settings button and change import using to aiff encoder.
  3. Right click your text message sound (add the sound to your library if you haven’t already) and go to create aiff version.
  4. Rename the file to sms-received6.caf (if you need it).
  5. Using whatever method you want put the file into your iphone under /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/ (i use iphone explorer). Overwrite the old file.
  6. On your phone go to your text message sound settings and click the last text message sound. You should recognize it.
Sep25

Marking mail as unread in the iPhone mail application

Now that gmail offers push for the iphone via google sync I am trying out iPhone’s mail app instead of gmail’s website. An important feature I require is the mark as unread option so I can read certain emails when I get home. I couldn’t find it forever, but finally found it in the dumbest spot. Instead of a menu option you have to open the mail and click the details link on the top right, and then hit “Mark Unread”