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Basic iphone questions
Hi,
Got my wife an iphone today and have a couple of simple questions that I would be very grateful for someone to answer. 1) Can you send picture messages ( MMS ) via text ? I know you can send pics by e-mail but this is of no use to my wife who wants to send pics from phone to phone. 2) Can you change the ringtone to one of your music tracks or download ringtones from itunes? I have looked on itunes but can't find any !!!! |
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Hi mate you cant send MMS messages on the iphone and iv not worked out how to get music tracks as your ringtone - only got mine two days ago.
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I seem to remember reading if you download a track, you would have to download it again to use it as a ringtone. I might be wrong though. Sorry I can't help more, I'm sure someone will be more help!
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Thankyou very much for your replies so far.
One other quick question... can you change the settings so that the text of your message doesn't appear on the display of your phone until you open it? |
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Rob, the inabilty of the iPhone to send pics by MMS is one of its major shortcomings. To be honest I'm surprised that you didn't discover this when doing your handset research.
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Hi,
Got my wife an iphone today and have a couple of simple questions that I would be very grateful for someone to answer. 1) Can you send picture messages ( MMS ) via text ? I know you can send pics by e-mail but this is of no use to my wife who wants to send pics from phone to phone. 2) Can you change the ringtone to one of your music tracks or download ringtones from itunes? I have looked on itunes but can't find any !!!! but not easily! To send MMS, the phone will need to be 'jailbroken' then there is an app (Swirly MMS) that can be installed to enable you to send MMS. If you don't fancy a spot of jailbraking, I'm sure some bright spark will be working on a MMS application right now (with the SDK that Apple have released). The software update scheduled in June will add an App Store icon to the phone so that you can download free or bought application that (I think) will revolutionise an already amazing phone. There is a workaround to add custom ringtones (Macrumors tutorial) It's quite easy (and free). You can use ANY MP3 file - but they can only be about 30 seconds long. I've dropped a few custom ringtones on using this method and they work a treat. You can even use them as alarm tones to wake you up in a morning.... Other than that, my iPhone is completely how Apple want me to have it, although I do have the latest software 1.1.4. I can't wait for June, and version 2 of the software! |
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Thankyou very much for your replies so far.
One other quick question... can you change the settings so that the text of your message doesn't appear on the display of your phone until you open it? as for the ringtones, for some reason there don't seem to have appeared in the uk itunes store yet. |
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can you change the settings so that the text of your message doesn't appear on the display of your phone until you open it?
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That's an interesting question, as far as I know you can't, but I can see why that might be a problem to some (who have something to hide !).
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Settings, General, Passcode Lock - set 'Show SMS Preview' to off...but it only has an affect when the phone is locked (with a press of the top button).
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Ah, you live and learn. As it happens I quite like the feature - I have nothing to hide
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Unlike a mate of mine, who's contact list is 95% women!!!
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so I can't send my wife any saucy texts when she's visiting her mums ?
On the plus side I have bought my wife a 21st century chastity belt |
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Rob, the inabilty of the iPhone to send pics by MMS is one of its major shortcomings. To be honest I'm surprised that you didn't discover this when doing your handset research.
For someone who has nothing but negative things to say about the iphone, you seem to post a hell of a lot in threads concerning it. Why would that be? |
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Settings, General, Passcode Lock - set 'Show SMS Preview' to off...but it only has an affect when the phone is locked (with a press of the top button).
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For someone who has nothing but negative things to say about the iphone, you seem to post a hell of a lot in threads concerning it. Why would that be? |
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Ricardodawotsit:
For someone who has nothing but negative things to say about the iphone, you seem to post a hell of a lot in threads concerning it. Why would that be?
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The SMS preview has got me into a lot of shit with the missus... lol
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The SMS preview has got me into a lot of shit with the missus... lol
Me too. I reckon they need a 'Playa' app to disable the SMS preview. ( not that I'm saying I'm a player) |
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Cos there are lots of negative things about the iPhone to post about obviously
![]() No handset it perfect, the iPhone is closer to it than any other I've used though. |
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I've logged on to DS in the past just to see Ricardoforce's posts. He never fails to live up to his image.
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