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When plugged into iTunes, "Other" Space takes up 9GB...why??

palmerc2

palmerc2

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I'm a jailbroken iPhone 4 and when I plug into iTunes the space taken by "Other" seems to be way too much. I thought for the longest time that it was Pictures / Videos being taken by the phone itself, but that falls under regular Pictures.

Does this have something to do with jailbreaking? How do I free up this space which I have no clue what it's being filled up by?
 
"Other" used to include the size of attachments sent via iMessage/text message (pictures, videos, etc).

Deleting conversations in the Message app freed up 2-3GB on my iPhone.
 
I delete text / iMessages every week.

I guess the big question is where is the jail broken info stored, and how do I delete it?
 
charlieegan3 said:
I would just restore and start again.
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well, I don't think that'll work and here's why. To make a long story short: A month ago I dropped my phone in a jacuzzi but quickly retrieved it, turned it off, and let it sit in rice for a week. It's fine now, but during that week I needed an iPhone for work so I borrowed a 3GS from a family member. I plugged it into my iTunes, and restored it using the backups from my iPhone 4. In the end, it had 0 KB of free space, and not a single song, video, picture or anything was on there...it was all taken up by "Other"....hope that makes sense.
 
where do you think they keep all the information they are keeping on you and your doings? Surveillance takes memory.
 
palmerc2 said:
I'm a jailbroken iPhone 4 and when I plug into iTunes the space taken by "Other" seems to be way too much. I thought for the longest time that it was Pictures / Videos being taken by the phone itself, but that falls under regular Pictures.

Does this have something to do with jailbreaking? How do I free up this space which I have no clue what it's being filled up by?
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If you use Spotify that can be the reason. If deleting all your mail and text doesn't help, the only way is resetting the phone.
 
palmerc2 said:
well, I don't think that'll work and here's why. To make a long story short: A month ago I dropped my phone in a jacuzzi but quickly retrieved it, turned it off, and let it sit in rice for a week. It's fine now, but during that week I needed an iPhone for work so I borrowed a 3GS from a family member. I plugged it into my iTunes, and restored it using the backups from my iPhone 4. In the end, it had 0 KB of free space, and not a single song, video, picture or anything was on there...it was all taken up by "Other"....hope that makes sense.
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But wasn't that for a backup of a different phone? and restoring to a different model.
 
palmerc2 said:
well, I don't think that'll work and here's why. To make a long story short: A month ago I dropped my phone in a jacuzzi but quickly retrieved it, turned it off, and let it sit in rice for a week. It's fine now, but during that week I needed an iPhone for work so I borrowed a 3GS from a family member. I plugged it into my iTunes, and restored it using the backups from my iPhone 4. In the end, it had 0 KB of free space, and not a single song, video, picture or anything was on there...it was all taken up by "Other"....hope that makes sense.
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the memory may have 9GB of water stuck in it
 
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