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Yellow Bar "Other" Capacity

My iphone capacity is showing 1.83g used in the "other" yellow bar. I don't know what this is or how to lower it, but it sucking up a whole bunch of space. Lil help, please.

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1, 8G

Posted on Jan 28, 2012 2:49 PM

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Posted on Jan 28, 2012 2:54 PM

"Other" includes data such as settings, contacts, calendar events, notes, Safari bookmarks/history/cache, email and email attachments stored or cached on the iPhone, SMS/MMS/iMessages and attachments, and data stored by a 3rd party app. This may also include iOS, but not postive about that. Mine is currently 1.48 GB, which seems to have increased some in size with iOS 5.0.

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Jan 28, 2012 2:54 PM in response to careydp

"Other" includes data such as settings, contacts, calendar events, notes, Safari bookmarks/history/cache, email and email attachments stored or cached on the iPhone, SMS/MMS/iMessages and attachments, and data stored by a 3rd party app. This may also include iOS, but not postive about that. Mine is currently 1.48 GB, which seems to have increased some in size with iOS 5.0.

Jan 28, 2012 3:43 PM in response to madforit73

Copied from your previous post.


hi im thinking this can be info like your contacts etc,try backing them up on itunes,then delete all your contacts,then see what it shows then ,if its zero then it will be contacts,then just put them back on

see how that goes


Contacts alone cannot equal 1.83 GB in size or anywhere close to it, so doing this with contacts would be a waste of time.

Jan 28, 2012 3:49 PM in response to careydp

Thanks, everyone, for the input. I have what I think is a nominal amount of Contacts. It's not a business list or anything like that, just personal contacts and some service providers, etc. Real ordinary. And this seemingly ever-increasing yellow bar of "other" in my itunes capacity was not that big when I brought the phone home from the Verizon store in November, 2011, just a couple of months ago. I may have added a few, but the salesperson in Verizon copied them over from my previous non-smart phone. I don't know when the yellow bar stared growing, but it is the primary consumer of my available space, and I just don't have that many contacts. I've read on other forums that it might be mirroring some stuff that I've already deleted. Dunno. I've heard some say to Restore the OS to its original condition and then reload. Any thoughts?

Jan 28, 2012 3:53 PM in response to Allan Sampson

if you delete contacts ,(backing up of course beforehand),what ever is left = other items other than contacts!

just to remind you if you have just contacts that have full info,like i have it DOES AND CAN USE ALOT OF SPACE!!!!

SO IN ALL ITS NOT A WASTE!!

DOES LEVEL 10 ,103.310 MAKE YOU SOME EXPERT?

DON'T THINK SO!

read between the lines of the questions

Jan 28, 2012 4:13 PM in response to Allan Sampson

Below is a screenshot of my iphone 4 capacity bar. I know I have a goodly amount of free space, but I'd like to know what is represented by the yellow "other" bar that is eating so much space. I've been cleaning up the phone for awhile today, deleting music, mostly unused or not-used-anymore apps, pics, videos, etc. It just bugs me that it's there, I don't know what it is, I don't think I need it, it wasn't that way in the beginning, and I don't have much more on the phone today than the day I took it home.


http://screencast.com/t/TuT111mfw

Jan 28, 2012 4:18 PM in response to careydp

I already provided some of what other includes with my first post in this thread.


It can also mean some of the data transferred to your iPhone via the iTunes sync process is corrupt or not labeled properly. This can include music or movies/tv shows.


I've never had other below 400-500 MB in size, and the size of other has increased with iOS 5 on my iPad 2 and iPhone.


Try restoring your iPhone with iTunes to see if this makes any difference.

Jan 28, 2012 5:30 PM in response to Allan Sampson

FYI, I restored, and it dropped the Other to 1.6GB from the previous 1.83. I backed-up beforehand and restored from backup and not the "set-up as a new phone" option. 1.6 still seems high to me. I'm assuming, though, that corrupt files could have been backed-up and then reloaded. What are your thoughts on that? Should I restore again only select setting up as a new phone?

Thanks,

Don

Yellow Bar "Other" Capacity

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