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My wife wanted to set one of her favorite song to a ringtone in iPhone 3GS. She asked how she can do it and then I started to look at the device and I couldn’t find an easy way to do it. So after Googling little bit, I noticed that it’s not a trivial thing to do. I was little surprised when I noticed that iPhone 3GS doesn’t provide an easy way to set a song from your music library as a ringtone as you would normally do. Like you can do e.g. with N900! It requires iTunes to “convert” an audio file to a ringtone. Basically what Apple wants is that all the audio files must be bought from the iTunes store if you want to convert them to the ringtones, but wait. There is a workaround for that and I’m gonna tell you how to do it.

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Yes, I do have also an iPhone and yes, I want to give a chance to other good products also, not just for Nokia Maemo devices:) If you accidentally upgraded iPhone’s firmware to 3.1.2 which also updated the baseband, you were out of luck. The firmware was not possible to unlock or to downgrade to the previous version. Not before today.

A hacker called geohot released a new unlock for iPhone called blacksn0w today. It was first available only with blackra1n, but now it’s also available via Cydia if your iPhone’s been jailbreaked already. I guess you can find these instruction like billion times from the internet but here’s one quick guide more.

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