"Other" Storage Space....Getting pretty fed up.

If You Are Locked Out Or Have Forgotten Your Passcode

iTunes 10 for Mac- Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad

A Complete Guide to Restore or Recover Your iDevice

If you need to restore your device or if you cannot remember the passcode, then you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and re-sync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.

Try restoring the iOS device if backing up and erasing all content and settings doesn't resolve the issue. Using iTunes to restore iOS devices is part of standard isolation troubleshooting. Restoring your device will delete all data and content, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, and calendar information, and will restore all settings to their factory condition.

Before restoring your iOS device, Apple recommends that you either sync with iTunes to transfer any purchases you have made, or back up new data (data acquired after your last sync). If you have movie rentals on the device, see iTunes Store movie rental usage rights in the United States before restoring.

Follow these steps to restore your device:

1. Verify that you are using the latest version of iTunes before attempting to update.

2. Connect your device to your computer.

3. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when it appears in iTunes under Devices.

4. Select the Summary tab.

5. Select the Restore option.

6. When prompted to back up your settings before restoring, select the Back Up

option (see in the image below). If you have just backed up the device, it is not

necessary to create another.

7. Select the Restore option when iTunes prompts you (as long as you've backed up,

you should not have to worry about restoring your iOS device).

8. When the restore process has completed, the device restarts and displays the Apple

logo while starting up:

After a restore, the iOS device displays the "Connect to iTunes" screen. For updating

to iOS 5 or later, follow the steps in the iOS Setup Assistant. For earlier versions of

iOS, keep your device connected until the "Connect to iTunes" screen goes away or

you see "iPhone is activated."

9. The final step is to restore your device from a previous backup.

gsalt wrote:

What is "Other"?...

Info about ‘Other’ in this Discussion

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4414445?answerId=19958116022#19958116022

Other is usually around 1 GB...

A ' Large Other ' usually indicates Corrupt Data...

First Try a Restore from Backup... But... if the Large Other Persists, that is an Indicator of Corrupt Data in the Backup... Then a Restore as New is the way to go...

Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

just a reset worked fine for me - i had 15GB showing up in 'other'.

barbara58 wrote:

just a reset worked fine for me - i had 15GB showing up in 'other'.

what do you mean by 'just a reset'? i want to try that on mine, thanks.

hit and hold power and home button together until it restarts. i have no idea how it got corrupt, but it definitely got rid of 15GB worth of 'other' for me

http://www.hard-reset.com/apple-ipad-hard-reset.html