When you sync your iPhone, you can see a capacity bar from iTunes and it reads like this: Audio, Video, Photos, Apps, Other. What's 'Other'? My iPhone is not and has never been jailbroken, so it can't be that. I've also emptied suspect apps like AirSharing. So what's 'Other' and how can I delete it? It's taking 800mb of my iPhone!!
occasionally itunes won't recongnize a video, podcast, or application as an app and just says other instead. It's not extra data.
Maybe but when we first bought the device and sync it to iTunes, nothing shows up in the Capacity bar. Isn't the iPhone OS built in?
Other is all the fonts, menus, and all the included applications like Safari, Notes, Phone, etc. For jailbroken devices, the other will be larger because that's where your themes, Winterboard, etc. is stored. I'm just guessing
It's not efficient to have two separate storage devices in the same device. You'd have to pool together the OS and the music/apps/video/photo, which would take a good flow of power. The OS is included in the data count, everything is kept in the same hard drive.
The OS is the 200mb not shown in iTunes since it is not removable through normal means. The total storage space isn't 8gb in iTunes.
Soo... it seems no one really knows what it is, lol. I'm just wondering if 'restoring' (format and restore from backup) would help?
yeah i noticed that happens usually when reach or go beyond half my total storage. also all my apps get un checked in the sync menu. but if i delete a few apps and go under my half of my then everything goes back to normal. i guess apple doesnt want you to use up half your storage space on apps maybe due to performance issues im guessin
but I reached half my total storage long time ago. I have a 16gb iPhone and my freespace has always been around 4gb.
If you use something like Datacase, Air Sharing, etc. Anything that it stores takes up residense in the "other" category. Be it a document file, music, video or whatever.
I've had the "Other" section of my Capacity bar hit some big numbers on occasion too. I've found that resetting the iPhone/iPod touch fixes this problem by releasing the data of whatever was sitting in that area of the device. Be warned that if you're running iPhone OS 3.0 that there is an issue with app icons being messed up whenever you reset the device. If you don't know what version of the iPhone OS you're running, tap the Settings app on your iPhone/iPod touch, then tap "General", and then tap "About" and look at "Version". You can also connect your device to iTunes and in the "Summary" pane of the iPhone/iPod touch, look at the "Software Version". If you are running iPhone OS 3.0, read the following on the reset procedure workaround for fixing the app icon bug and to refresh the system memory as well. If you're running iPhone OS 2.x you can also use the following procedure. The first 2 steps are to save the current state of the device before you reset it so that things don't get moved around. (In case anyone was wondering why you bother to turn it off before you reset it.) 1. After you sync your device in iTunes, disconnect the iPhone/iPod touch and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red "slide to power off" slider appears. Slide that to turn off the device. 2. After it's been shut off, hold the Sleep/Wake button for about 3-5 seconds to turn the device back on. 3. Once the iPhone/iPod touch has finished booting and you can see your Home screen; hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons simultaneously for about 10 seconds or until the screen turns off and turns back on showing you an Apple logo. Once you see that Apple logo, you can release the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons and let it reboot. 4. After it's done rebooting, connect the device to iTunes and look at the Capacity bar. The numbers should have changed (most often decreased) prior to the reset. And for anyone who doesn't know the difference between a "restart" and a "reset" on the iPhone/iPod touch and is afraid something bad will happen to their device, read the following: - A "restart" is when you hold the Sleep/Wake button and slide that red "slide to power off" slider to turn off the device. After it turns off and you turn it back on, that is called a "restart". - A "reset" is when the device is completely rebooted to refresh the system memory and also used to fix a device that was frozen as well. A "reset" is initiated by holding down the Sleep/Wake + Home buttons for around 10 seconds or when the screen turns off and turns back on showing you an Apple logo. A "reset" takes longer than a "restart" as well. Roughly around 1 minute for a "reset" compared to around 20-30 seconds for a "restart".
On my jailbroken iPod, "other" is about 7gb. I believe it's because I download movies on my iPod through dTunes, and that puts it in a seperate location, hence other.
well i suppose that does it for that theory. i really wish i know why it wants to wipe my apps the way it does. its a real pain in the tail to have go through my list of apps getting my app library back maybe mine is broken that would be great cuase ii only had it a year and i can trade for a new shiny one at the apple store although the apple store kinda creeps me out
