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
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
"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.
"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.
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
Other includes contacts, but someone would have to have one heck of a contact list for it to amount to 1.83 GB in size. Much more data is included with Other than contacts.
contacts etc ,does not only mean contacts,can be email,notes,mms,sms,etc !
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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.
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?
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
just to remind you if you have just contacts that have full info,like i have it DOES AND CAN USE ALOT OF SPACE!!!!
Hogwash.
DOES LEVEL 10 ,103.310 MAKE YOU SOME EXPERT?
It most certainly does.
OP, do not waste your time focusing on your contacts. This has nothing whatsover to do with your contacts.
Getting to level 10, is certainly not though speculations.
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.
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.
Thanks. Working on that right now. Got about 25 minutes left. Thanks again.
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
I forgot to add this in the last post: I'm assuming that I could recapture my Contacts and Calendar from icloud if I use the new phone setup option, right? Those are all I really want to save, well, and the apps. But I could reload the few apps I have. They are almost all freebies anyway.
My iPhone 4S has 0.71 GB. If you're bother with the Other size of yours and you have no problems configuring your settings again by all mean do a restore as new.
Yellow Bar "Other" Capacity