Have you tried Handcent SMS? If you send somebody a text with it then you can go is up upper right hand corner I think or click on the Settings individual settings and you can apply a different text message tone to each person. I'm on jelly bean with my 1x in use Handcent and don't have a problem. You have to go under notification settings for each individual and then I'll ask you which tone to use.
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