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iphone 3g other memory
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about 200-270 mb will be taken up by the 2.1 software, the rest is your contacts, album artwork and other miscellaneous files
Hi, Polarbebe!
Don't worry. Look at the total of your "Apps + Other". They should stay pretty consistent, but the balance between them changes quite frequently - especially if you have a lot of applications. What's going on in 2.1 is that it has a bug where it sometimes misidentifies some Apps as Other. Each time you update, install, or delete an App (or sometimes, just unplug and re-plug your iPhone), you'll see this results in changing numbers.
For example, my phone's running near the limit for installed applications, and the proper totals are 1.16 GB of Apps, and 335 MB of Other. In a single day, I'll see those totals radically change individually, like to 150 MB for Apps and 1.35 GB of Other, or other odd combinations which yield the same total storage.
This constant flipping is confusing, but it's just the totals on iTunes' iPhone Summary page that are buggy. Look at the total for Apps + Other, and you'll see that things are in fact just fine.
Cheers!
Mark
Don't worry. Look at the total of your "Apps + Other". They should stay pretty consistent, but the balance between them changes quite frequently - especially if you have a lot of applications. What's going on in 2.1 is that it has a bug where it sometimes misidentifies some Apps as Other. Each time you update, install, or delete an App (or sometimes, just unplug and re-plug your iPhone), you'll see this results in changing numbers.
For example, my phone's running near the limit for installed applications, and the proper totals are 1.16 GB of Apps, and 335 MB of Other. In a single day, I'll see those totals radically change individually, like to 150 MB for Apps and 1.35 GB of Other, or other odd combinations which yield the same total storage.
This constant flipping is confusing, but it's just the totals on iTunes' iPhone Summary page that are buggy. Look at the total for Apps + Other, and you'll see that things are in fact just fine.
Cheers!
Mark
Overloaded with "Other"
I have an 8gig 3G (un-jailbroken). Before the latest OS update I had the same thing on my phone (13 apps, 200 contacts, 200 songs, google calendar synced, etc). I only used 3 gigs at the most. I just synced my phone last night an now I have 4.3 gigs of Other memory, and the total memory used is now 7.4gigs. How is it that I've used up more total memory without doing anything (I may have added a contact or two, but no new music, videos, apps, etc)? Also, how can I fix this? Also I never updated to the last Itunes (I have the 2nd to latest version). Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
I have an 8gig 3G (un-jailbroken). Before the latest OS update I had the same thing on my phone (13 apps, 200 contacts, 200 songs, google calendar synced, etc). I only used 3 gigs at the most. I just synced my phone last night an now I have 4.3 gigs of Other memory, and the total memory used is now 7.4gigs. How is it that I've used up more total memory without doing anything (I may have added a contact or two, but no new music, videos, apps, etc)? Also, how can I fix this? Also I never updated to the last Itunes (I have the 2nd to latest version). Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.