Confused about whats on my phone

[iphonewarrior]

Are some of the apps i.e games quite large?

Does your phone even sync?

[aj0538]

It says it syncs and tells me its complete. I just loaded 3 movies and they are on the phone.

[aj0538]

I have a couple of games, isniper, ac130 spectre. I just synced it and transferred 3 movies over. The "other" is still the same size.

[iphonewarrior]

Movies are different, if you look at the bar at the bottom there is specific color for video's so you can identify whats using up your memory.

[aj0538]

Originally Posted by iphonewarrior

Movies are different, if you look at the bar at the bottom there is specific color for video's so you can identify whats using up your memory.

Ok, The bar shows 1.05 g of movies, 18.1 mb of pictures, 114.7 mb of apps and the infamous "other" at 2.63 gb. Trying to sync it again to see what happens.

[aj0538]

I looked around and it seems like this is a pretty common issue, although no on knows for sure what causes it. I deleted 3 movies directly from my phone yesterday and this seems to be one of the causes. Another cause is linked to the newest version of iTunes. I was told to try to go back to 7.5. Either way, everything points to restoring the phone. I'll try to see if there's another way or if I need to restore. I'll post the outcome when I get a chance to try it out.

[aj0538]

Allrighty then,

Restore did the trick! I tend to believe that the problem was that I deleted 3 video files directly from the phone. I wont do that again. The speculation on this is that Itunes no longer recognizes the files after they are deleted directly from the phone ergo it labels the space the files previously occupied as "other" when you attempt to perform a sync.

I'm going to go with this explanation, mostly because I'm a member of the Atari generation and the majority of this technical stuff makes me want to curl up in a ball and do my rainman impersonation, but also because the phone now works and seems to actually be a bit quicker.

Anyway, G'night everyone and thanks for the help.

[Hawk]

Originally Posted by aj0538

Allrighty then,

Restore did the trick! I tend to believe that the problem was that I deleted 3 video files directly from the phone. I wont do that again. The speculation on this is that Itunes no longer recognizes the files after they are deleted directly from the phone ergo it labels the space the files previously occupied as "other" when you attempt to perform a sync.

I'm going to go with this explanation, mostly because I'm a member of the Atari generation and the majority of this technical stuff makes me want to curl up in a ball and do my rainman impersonation, but also because the phone now works and seems to actually be a bit quicker.

Anyway, G'night everyone and thanks for the help.

I was unaware that you could delete movies directly from the phone. I would confirm that this was the problem, as it parallels what I described before.
I recently had my phone replaced due to battery issues. When I synced the new phone, my Other was over 500MB, which is about double what the old phone had. It took 4 syncs and 2 random media remove and re-adds to get it to get back down to around 200-250. Itunes was very slow to recognize the changes, which I think was your problem as well.
Glad you fixed it.

[iphonewarrior]

Originally Posted by Hawk

I was unaware that you could delete movies directly from the phone. I would confirm that this was the problem, as it parallels what I described before.
I recently had my phone replaced due to battery issues. When I synced the new phone, my Other was over 500MB, which is about double what the old phone had. It took 4 syncs and 2 random media remove and re-adds to get it to get back down to around 200-250. Itunes was very slow to recognize the changes, which I think was your problem as well.
Glad you fixed it.

I only found out a few months back that you could delete movies directly from the phone.

OP, sorry for ditichin last night, gotta sleep