Since I had already had custom ringtones set up on my iPhone, it was no problem selecting one of these custom tones for the text tone. If you haven't tried setting tones on your iPhone for your family and friends, that is accomplished by going into your Contacts app (Addressbook) and selecting Edit. If you scroll down the items in the edit field, you should come across the field where you select a Text Tone. If you have installed some custom ringtones, they should appear in the list along with the default text tones that Apple offers. Select which one you wish to use as that special text tone and be sure to click the Save and Done buttons to preserve your choices.
I did not see these same custom ringtones on my iPad. I remembered that there was no real reason to add custom ringtones on my iPad 2 originally as I did not have "phone" capability and there was not an option to set different tones or such.
So I just selected some of my custom ringtones in iTunes and synced to my iPad 2. These now show up as options for Text Tones under the Contacts on my iPad. So now I have some pretty funky text tones for incoming messages on my iPad. I also read online that some suggest that these tones need to be 15 seconds or less. Guess it might be annoying to have a long ringtone. Or it might be that anything longer than 15 seconds might not work. I haven't tested that theory yet.
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