[nabs-l] downloading ring tones to I-phone

[I. C. Bray]

Gloria,

No, you aren't doing anything wrong... That's just iPhones for ya.
That was the trade off I made for the use of Voice Over.

I'm so glad you brought this up!

Ian



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria G" <gloria.graves at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] downloading ring tones to I-phone


> hi,
> Thank you for this information. I am going to try this and see how far I 
> get. I am not the smartest person when it comes to technology. LOL! Maybe 
> there is one more thing you can assist me with. I had someone send me ring 
> tones via text message and they came as media files in my text message 
> which I was expecting, but when I go to open the message with the attached 
> file, it opens it up as a video, and when I try to save it to my phone 
> there is no save button but there is a action button which asks me to open 
> up  the media file in either messages or drop box.  I can remember phones 
> that I have had like the NV2, whenever I would get a pic, video, or any 
> type of audio file, there would be an option to save the file to my phone, 
> but I am not finding the same thing with the I-phone. I have tried 
> emailing the files to myself so that I could open them and hopefully save 
> them to my phone that way, but again, no luck because I am not getting an 
> option to save the file to my phone. Am I doing something wrong? Again, I 
> am not the most tech savvy person around. I am able to do the basic things 
> I need to with my phone and computer, but am trying to expand my 
> technological knowledge, if that makes since the way I said that. Sorry if 
> these questions are becoming a pain, but I figured there would be someone 
> out there a little better with the I-phone who could maybe help me. Thank 
> you for any help you can give.
> Gloria ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alexa Schwichow" <ajschwichow at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] downloading ring tones to I-phone
>
>
>> You have to go to iTunes, and to go to your iPhone on your computer. 
>> After you click past all the radio buttons that say stuff like music, 
>> Summary, info, etc, you will find a radio button that says apps. You need 
>> to press the spacebar to check this button. Then, tab until you hear file 
>> sharing. After this, you will find a list of apps that can transfer files 
>> between your phone and your computer. Select the ring tone app, tab over, 
>> and you will find a list of the files that this application can share 
>> with your computer. Select the ring tone And tab to the save as button. 
>> Save it in a folder, and then add it to your iTunes library from that 
>> folder. This can be done by selecting file greater then add file to 
>> library. I hope this helps.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2013, at 3:06 PM, "Gloria G" <gloria.graves at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I hope you are well. I am trying to download ring tones to my I-phone 
>>> and was wondering if someone could help me? I downloaded an app that 
>>> allows me to download ring tones for free, but when I check my phone in 
>>> the ring tones tab in settings the ring tones I downloaded are not 
>>> there. I read in the app that the ring tones should show up in I-tunes, 
>>> but when I go to downloads, they are not there. How can I download ring 
>>> tones and transfer them to my phone to be able to find them when I go to 
>>> settings and go to ring tones? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gloria
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