i finally got my iphone 4s after a 3 week wait . anyway i plugged it up to itunes to put some songs on it , and after i did that it showed that my music occupies 3.2 gb and that 3.7 is occupied by "Other" wtf ? i just have music and pandora on it and something is taking 3.7 gb of space ? any idea what it could be ?
Weird ?!?!?
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Weird ?!?!?
- Thread starter rooski
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says music is taking 3.1 gb and pandora is taking 14.3 mb , nothing about the extra 3.7gb . but it does say that 6.8 gb are being used. so something is using it :\
when i click on music in general>usage it says all music 3.1 gb
when i click on music in general>usage it says all music 3.1 gb
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Thomasjtsi
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Welcome to iPF.net! The "Other" is a partition set up for the iOS & native apps factory installed on the phone.
Plug your iPhone up to your computer and open iTunes. Go to your device and look at the summary tab. There should be a multi color bar at the bottom that's telling you what's taking up space.
Thomasjtsi
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It's most likely gonna tell him that it's "Other" as well. Please correct me if I'm wrong though...
thomasjtsi said:
Possibly. Which "other" contains caches, temp files, and the iOS firmware falls in that category. Which is 600-800MB. can't remember which.
If you jailbroken, tweaks and cydia apps fall in this category as well.
Thomasjtsi
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That would explain why my "Other" is HUGE!! LOL!!
Yep. ! Well how big is it exactly? It shouldn't be too huge.
! Well how big is it exactly? It shouldn't be too huge.rooski said:
Ok so its jus the phone settings software etc. the stuff needed to run your phone its the same on mines wen i plug it and i have a 16gig but wen i plug it in it says i have 13.60 gb to use
Unless im mistaken and there rlly is something on your phone taking up all that room
Thomasjtsi
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Don't have my phone it front of me... but I'm pretty sure it's 5.1GB. I have a lot of Cydia themes and tweaks installed, though.
Go to settings- About, and look for Capacity. If your on a 16GB device it should say 13.7. That's 2.3GB the stock firmware/software is using. The rest can be album artwork, temp files, caches, contacts, and a number of other things.
Thomasjtsi
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Alrighty thanks... I'll take a look at it in the morning when I'm off work.
thomasjtsi said:
That still sounds like too much. Though if you have a lot of themes installed, or other things, that could be what's taking 5.1GB. Tweaks don't take much space at all. Some themes do though. You can SSH a lot of temp files out, but I wouldn't recommend it. Unless you just really need the space.
Thomasjtsi
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That's the good thing about it... I'm not hurting for the room. I just keep a few hundred songs in rotation w/ some pics every now and again. So I still have between 4-6GB free space. I do have quite a few themes just sitting... prolly should get rid of the ones I never use anymore.
