Windows Phone 7 doesn’t officially let you install apps unless you either grab them from the Windows Marketplace or pay for a developer account which lets you test apps on your phone, among other things. Last week a group of hackers put together an app called ChevronWP7 that gets around this restriction, allowing anyone to install third party apps on their Windows Phone 7 devices.Now it looks like one of the folks who developed that app is working on a tool that lets you get around another Windows Phone 7 restriction.

Out of the box, you can’t install custom ringtones on a Windows Phone 7 device. You’re stuck with the ringtones Microsoft and your mobile carrier provide you. But developer Chris Walsh says he’s developed a ringtone loader which will work with ChevronWP7 to let you load custom ringtones on your phone.

The new tool should be available for download tomorrow.

Update: The app is now available for download… but you’ll need the Windows Phone 7 SDK to install it.

via WP Central

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Brad Linder is editor of Liliputing and Mobiputing. He's been tinkering with mobile tech for decades and writing about it since 2006. Brad has also worked with NPR, WHYY, PRI, and AOL.

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