July 1st, 2008 One of my biggest complaints with the first-gen iPhone was it’s weak ringer volume. I’d miss a ton of calls when walking around (maybe 1 in 10 – although I only get about 10 calls a year anyway, so…), and it really started to annoy me. That’s when I decided to take a look and see if it was the ringer, or the actual ringtones that were at fault. As it turns out, most of the sounds that come with the iPhone are just pathetically quiet.

With a little time in Garageband (or QuickTime Pro), you can have some ringtones on your Jesusphone that are substantially louder than the default ones. Honestly, the first time I gave this a test run, it scared the hell out of me it was so loud. The first thing that you do is find a track that is to your liking.

If you have Garageband installed, there is a good cell phone ringtone in /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Work-Home/ and it’s called ‘Cell Phone Ringning. caf‘. I made a copy of this file on my desktop and opened Garageband. From there, I just dragged the file onto the stage, clipped out the deadspace, and bumped the master track volume to the absolute loudest it