The "other" while syncing Pt. 2 - iPhone 3G

RKC06 · 01-17-2008, 03:44 AM

Ok I know there is another thread here about what the "other" memory used on our iphones is but I am still confused. I have a non-jailbroken iphone and have cleared the cache, history, cookies, etc. and it still shows I have used 247 Megs listed in the "Other" section. Thats a lot of memory to be used and I can't figure out where it is coming from. I only had 70 megs in "other" yesterday after I updated to 1.1.3 and now that I have updated itunes to 7.6 my memory in "other" jumped up to 247! I have removed all videos and photos and it still didn't change it. Any other ideas on what this is?

patrickj · 01-17-2008, 03:58 AM

I haven't updated (iTunes or iPhone) but a buddy of mine has and we were chatiing about this issue tonight - seems there is an Apple discussions thread on this and the blame is being put on iTunes 7.6 so far:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....2573&tstart=45

RKC06 · 01-17-2008, 04:24 AM

I think I found the thread in the Apple Website discussions you talked about. Yeah it looks like its gonna be an itunes 7.6 problem. Under 7.5, everyone's including mine "other" memory was around 70 mb or below but after 7.6 everyone's memory jumped into the 200's. Hope they fix it soon.

patrickj · 01-17-2008, 04:29 AM

Yeah, seems lots of folks seeing similar numbers / results ...

mythrowbacknikes · 01-17-2008, 04:33 AM

ummm.. Weird.. Updated to 1.1.3, but my "other" memory has not been effected at all.. was this "other" issue only happening to some people? or all of you? or is my itunes just buggy?

patrickj · 01-17-2008, 04:35 AM

And you're on iTunes 7.6?

acosmichippo · 01-17-2008, 05:11 AM

i'm on 1.1.2 (jailbroken) and 7.6, and my Other is 112MB... which i think is about the same as it was with my itunes 7.5... but certainly nowhere near 200.

psylichon · 01-17-2008, 05:32 AM

How many contacts do we all have? Photo ID's?

I have 177 MB of "other" after updating to both 1.1.3 and 7.6... though I couldn't tell you how much I had before...

234 contacts, 30 w/ pictures

acosmichippo · 01-17-2008, 05:35 AM

i have very few contacts... maybe 40. No photo IDs.

Lincoln · 01-17-2008, 02:36 PM

Wow - I had this happen but I didn't know it would become such a big thing.

It's obviously a bug - I've never had more than a small sliver of Other. I'm sure there'll be a fix for it.

- John