I have an iPhone 4, and my memory is almost full with 4.8G of other. Would could be causing this? I haven't jailbroke this device. Is there any game that would use that much memory to save?
Hm in general, it's something that wasn't synced properly. Maybe some videos, music etc. You can try resyncing, but you may need to restore. Restoring from backup works, so you won't lose any data.
The capacity headings in iTunes are: Photos, Apps, Other and Free (space). Connect your device and check the 'music', 'movies', 'TV shows' & 'books' tabs to see if you have anything listed. eg: my device has some OTHER content which are e-books.
Do a hard reset (hold power + home) with the iPod unplugged from iTunes, and then plug it back in and see if it still shows everything as Others. Most times when this happens to me it's just something funky that's up with my iPod. Go try it out if you haven't yet.
Theres no way you could have 4.8 gigabytes of save game data, considering save game data generally is less than a few kilobytes in size. That would mean you would have to have a crap ton of apps and their save data inorder to garner 4.8s. As an example, I have 109 apps on my 32gig iPod 4g, with about 20mb of save game data total (just an estimate, could be lower could be higher,), in perspective he would have to have 10x my apps just to have 200mb of save game data, which would be 1090 apps. for 2mb of save game data. The save game data is about 1/5th a gig. Multiply that number of apps by 20 and you got about 20,000 apps for 4.8gigs of save game data. Me head hurts, and I am pretty sure no one will understand what I just typed...sorry
What most likely happened is that iTunes became confuzzled and was unable to determine what kind of content was synced, so it labeled some music or some movies or some apps as "Other" rather than their actual names.
I've had a couple of gigs of Other before. It's usually due to a sync being interrupted. To fix: 1) airplane mode - no interruptions 2) comets a sync. Often other will convert to music/etc after a good sync. 3) backup your device 4) download iPhone explorer or Disk Aid 5) delete all your music/video on your device 6) using the software, explore your iTunes music dirs on your device, delete all remaining files (remember you deleted your music/movies) 7) delete all zip files in he app archive directory 8) sync again, then copy your music/video back.
I have 12 gigs of other. Not a big deal on my 64GB iPad, but I can see it being quite an annoyance on anything lower.
something like this happened to me, i deleted tap tap revenge 4 and i had around 20-30 paid tracks, but it only deleted the game data and i did not get the memory from the tracks back, whick should be around 100-200mb i think and when i messaged the devs they did not help at all, i have jailbroke so i can use i file so can anyone help me? EDIT: nvm i seen a previous post to do a hard reset and it worked thankss
This is the problem First ask these questions. 1. How many apps do I have? 2. How many of those apps have downloadable content or a download function? 3. When is the last time I checked these apps? "Other" falls under the category of saved data without a specific function. iDownloads, TuneIn Radio, Photography apps with unfinished/multiple projects, documents, voice memos, emails that don't get deleted but archived, Tap Tap Revenge, multiple save slots and games with DC contribute to this problem. ***Go through all of your apps and clean out any left over crap. The 4gigs of "other" memory should clear up.
if it ever happens, navigate to var/mobile/media/applicationarchives in ifile then, just delete whatevers in there that usually clears it up its just the result of itunes syncing something halfway through then stopping before it was able to complete it
