Anybody whose phone is suddenly filled with "Other" click here!

[mrat93]

Yesterday, my phone was suddenly filled to capacity out of nowhere. I was unable to take pictures and it would give me a warning every few minutes or so. In iTunes, it showed that I had about 5GB of "Other." If you are having this problem, CLICK HERE.

It turns out that it has something to do with a log file in Rock. It looks like you just need to delete that file, and disable Rock extensions. Hope this helps!

 

[ainjo1919]

omg thank you!!! I've been looking everywhere and finally came across this! I was already freaking out and thought that I might have to restore it, losing my jailbreak.

 

[Stu-Pid]

omg thank you!!! I've been looking everywhere and finally came across this! I was already freaking out and thought that I might have to restore it, losing my jailbreak.

And massive thanks from me as well. Tried a few things and then finally came across this thread just as I was fearing the worst.

My 'other' size was 8.4GB!

 

[labman]

Thanks mrat93

didn't get this error till tonight I just cleared out 22GB thanks to Rock wow and I was starting to like Rock! that's crazy. thanks again!

 

[trajen]

Rock sucks. Scissors FTW.

 

[Applejuiced]

Wow, didnt know Rock eat up your storage like that.....

 

[labman]

Now for some reason

Phone is lagging, apps crashing can't download from iTunes. Really frustating rock defently blows.

 

[The General]

not surprised at all. this is why real people use cydia.

 

[dhlizard]

not surprised at all. this is why real people use cydia.

Yep, I was never tempted even once to "jump on the Rock bandwagon" and now I know why !

 

[labman]

Funny thing

Only used Rock about 20% Cydia the rest. Rock will be gone tonight.

 

[scirica]

Rock did an update to "fix" this issue, blaming it on a mistake by one of the apt's. After the update I still had over 2gb in that log file. Once I deleted the file and rebooted it was regenerated at a reasonable size and appears to be staying small.

 

[Mystikal]

No luck. My log file was extremely small, I still have 3 GB of other. WTF.

 

[techwarrior]

I went the other route, restored, updated to 3.1.3 and leaving it native.

I used Blackra!n and only used a few JB apps, GV Mobile being primary. With the new web app, GV Mobile was not as critical.

My complaints about JB:

1. Battery life stunk. I would go to 20% by the end of the day with minimal use.
2. Dropped signals. In my basement/office, signal is 1-2 bars and would go to 'searching...' status more often than native iPhone (likely contributing to #1).
3. Complexity. JB requires a lot of attention to details... I was ok with that for a while, but grew tired of it with time.
4. Performance. This Rock bug only struck when I installed the 3.1.3 fake app, and couldn't launch Cydia or Rock, got disk full warnings, and clock was off by 6 hours. For the better part of a day, I struggled with above issues, and elected to restore to native rather than fuss with it any longer.

While the JB community has a number of good apps, my 6 month experiment taught me that the JB community it good for one thing, being a trial/error group for good ideas that Apple should work into their next release. I look forward to multitasking, themes and other ideas in future iPhone OS releases.

 

[DeuceDeuce]

I went the other route, restored, updated to 3.1.3 and leaving it native.

I used Blackra!n and only used a few JB apps, GV Mobile being primary. With the new web app, GV Mobile was not as critical.

My complaints about JB:

1. Battery life stunk. I would go to 20% by the end of the day with minimal use.
2. Dropped signals. In my basement/office, signal is 1-2 bars and would go to 'searching...' status more often than native iPhone (likely contributing to #1).
3. Complexity. JB requires a lot of attention to details... I was ok with that for a while, but grew tired of it with time.
4. Performance. This Rock bug only struck when I installed the 3.1.3 fake app, and couldn't launch Cydia or Rock, got disk full warnings, and clock was off by 6 hours. For the better part of a day, I struggled with above issues, and elected to restore to native rather than fuss with it any longer.

While the JB community has a number of good apps, my 6 month experiment taught me that the JB community it good for one thing, being a trial/error group for good ideas that Apple should work into their next release. I look forward to multitasking, themes and other ideas in future iPhone OS releases.

Thanks.

 

[Mystikal]

Not even this fixed my problem.