What is "Other"?

[PhazonUK]

I just synced my iPhone to my Mac and saw that it has 850MB of "Other".
What items class as "Other" in storage?
I have 6GB of audio, 1.6GB of photos, 1GB apps, 3.2MB books, and then 850MB of Other.
My iPhone is Jailbroken so I know that will be where some of the space has gone. In fact, halfway through this I remembered the saved apps on Installous, so I just went back to delete them all and now I'm down to 610MB, so that's still a lot.

 

[cambookpro]

Safari bookmarks, contacts, other info, but I can't see how it takes up >800mb?

 

[ohaithar]

Probably all the jailbroken stuff you downloaded of Cydia.

Also, don't talk about Installous, that's illegal. If you can afford an iPhone, then you can afford to buy apps

 

[b-rad g]

Your "Other" should be somewhere around 200-300mb is it more than that it means you OS kinda freaked out and didn't know what to do with some files and just stuck it under Other.

A restore should take care of it.

 

[adztaylor]

My "Other" is about 417mb. Not jailbroken or anything.

 

[SAD*FACED*CLOWN]

other also includes album artwork as well

 

[PhazonUK]

Album artwork? That might take up a bit of space since I have artwork for 99% of my songs.
Does the iPhone save mail or does it just read it straight from the server? I'm using GMail if that makes any difference.

 

[adztaylor]

Probably reason why mine is high then. All my songs have album artwork.

EDIT: Yaaaayyy my 250th post!

 

[PhazonUK]

Probably reason why mine is high then. All my songs have album artwork.

EDIT: Yaaaayyy my 250th post!

How do you see your post count? lol

 

[eng42ine]

I love how the OP took the thread off topic...

/kettle

 

[cambookpro]

How do you see your post count? lol

Have a look at a post you made, click on your name then 'View Public Profile'.

 

[galcian]

I had something like this happen to me when I switched over to 4.0 on my 3G. My phone had said there was over 4 GB worth of other and I had no idea why. I just continued syncing my phone and it went down each time. A restore could probably do it all in one swoop though.