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193.6MB of OTHER

Oh-es-Ten said:
You are lucky... I have 377MB of Other...
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Update from me (the winner).

A restore I just did knocked this back to a more respectable ~190MB (like everyone else).

Actually the phone itself feels better overall after the restore (no sluggish deletes in Mail), so I am a happy camper now.

Was impressed at how many settings are preserved in the backup option - the only thing I had to re-enable again was the Passcode lock - which seems to set itself back to nothing after a restore.
 
Yup, same here. I have 193 MB of other, and my wife has 205 MB.

Neither iPhones have ever been jailbroken, and I've only noticed it since upgrading to 7.6.

I wonder if it is related to the SDK, or if it's a gltch. I did a restore just to see, and when the whole iPhone is empty, it still has that space taken as if it's the OS.
 
I had this, but I found I could actually use the space marked as "other": As I added more songs to the phone it just reduced the amount marked as Other
 
Phil A. said:
I had this, but I found I could actually use the space marked as "other": As I added more songs to the phone it just reduced the amount marked as Other
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I tried adding more content (specifically music) than the iPhone should have been able to hold, due to the Other "data" taking up space, and I had the same experience as Phil A... I was still able to add music, the space taken up by music increased (of course), and the amount of data taken up by Other decreased. I am now showing "zero KB" of Free Space, which isn't true, as apparently the majority of the space being taken up by Other is technically free to use for other things... I guess for now we can chalk this phenomenon up to a bug in the way iTunes is perceiving the way space is being used on the iPhone. Anyone waiting to update iTunes to 7.6 (or who has reverted to 7.5) for this reason is free to update without fear it seems!
 
Well now...

The iPhone now has to store the custom settings for the icon layout somewhere. Then there are all those custom icons from webclips, And if the web bowser does better caching that could eat up space there. And there could be some other data structures that will be required for the apps from the SDK (and the apps themselves in fact). With the limit on SMSs lifted the amount of storage used is going to go up as the messages pile up.

I can think of lots of things that will bloat out "Other".
 
MacsAttack said:
Well now...

The iPhone now has to store the custom settings for the icon layout somewhere. Then there are all those custom icons from webclips, And if the web bowser does better caching that could eat up space there. And there could be some other data structures that will be required for the apps from the SDK (and the apps themselves in fact). With the limit on SMSs lifted the amount of storage used is going to go up as the messages pile up.

I can think of lots of things that will bloat out "Other".
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Sure, but we know the bloat is directly related to installing iTunes 7.6. Icons, custom home screens and SMS messages don't require hundreds of megabytes to store, only kilobytes I should think. An 8 GB iPhone only has 7.27 GB of space available to it for content; the way I understand it the remainder has already been set aside for things like "data structures." I also don't see how web caching could be perceived as being "better" if I'm losing hundreds of megabytes to it on a mobile platform, not to mention that these same megabytes were previously being reported as "free" until after I and everyone else installed iTunes 7.6. I've no problem with any forthcoming apps eating into storage, it's to be expected, but the key word here is "forthcoming;" apps (or music, or movies, or anything else) that have not been installed cannot take up storage space.

I'm sure we all can think of a lot of things that will take up space on the iPhone at some point in the future. What's apparent, however, is based on the fact the iPhone readily gives over the extra space being reserved for phantom "Other" "data" for actual content that one has deliberately added to the device demonstrates that iTunes 7.6 is reporting this space as being used when, in fact, it is not.
 
whilst previous jailbreak apps may contribute somewhat to the other I have a better explanation...

I have noticed that in 1.1.3 iTunes puts all video files such as music videos on the "other" section!

Have a look at how much space they take up and u will see that is what "other" is no but don't ask me why!
 
spinstorm said:
I have noticed that in 1.1.3 iTunes puts all video files such as music videos on the "other" section!

Have a look at how much space they take up and u will see that is what "other" is no but don't ask me why!
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Then why do I have 190Mb of Other when I don't own a single music video and in fact have no video content at all on my iPhone?
 
I take back what I originally said - I was wrong.

It is clear something is seriously not right here just as with the manual iTunes function not working - Apple has left some big bugs in there!
 
Benjamindaines said:
It's your album art, at least that's what it is on all the iPods.
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It is the OS... which is why there is something there in phones with little music.

But he is right it's the Album Art. I just added a bunch of Art to a few of my songs tonight (after updating to 1.1.3. on Tuesday) and I wanted the new artwork to show up on my phone so naturally I synced it, and as I did, I watched "Other" grow in size.
 
greenlightracer said:
But he is right it's the Album Art. I just added a bunch of Art to a few of my songs tonight (after updating to 1.1.3. on Tuesday) and I wanted the new artwork to show up on my phone so naturally I synced it, and as I did, I watched "Other" grow in size.
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It can't be the album art, because i had art on my albums before and my Other was about 26Mb before the upgrade and now it's 194-odd Mb, with no changes to the art.
 
Maps?

I have a feeling it could have to do with the Maps.app

I wonder if it contains a pretty big database or something, which might explain the increase in size of 'Other' for everyone using 1.1.3

Does not explain why you can keep adding stuff and 'Other' goes down, but my guess is you might be eating into your vm swap file or something...

Mine was 196 and is now 220MB recently, but nowhere near the 377 that I had...

Although I think the guy above ^^^^ wins for 400MB plus...
 
alFR said:
It can't be the album art, because i had art on my albums before and my Other was about 26Mb before the upgrade and now it's 194-odd Mb, with no changes to the art.
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I have to agree with this. My pre-1.1.3 "other" size was about 40MB and after the upgrade it went to more than 200,
 
It's probably just a cache. This explains why if you add content/music the number drops as the phone correctly decides that the stuff you want to add is higher priority than a web/gmaps cache.
 
I synced my phone to my laptop, which has the newest iTunes and have 190MB of other. Synced it to my iMac which has the last iTunes (7.5 something) before the newest release and have 30MB. Same music libraries and content on both computers. Sync it back to iTunes 7.6 and 190MB again.:confused:
 
i have a virgin un jailbroken iphone that was on 1.1.2 I dont remember what size 'other' was at before the 1.1.3 upgrade.. but I concur with others on here.. I filled my iphone up with anything I could find to fill it up.. and as the free space went down.. it started to eat into the 'other' which went down to about 111meg at the lowest...

as i removed stuff.. 'other' went back up to 209meg... so seems whatever it is.. it moves out the way for more important stuff!!! :)
 
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