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- 8.12gb to be exact is what the "other" category is taking when looking at my phones memory storage, nokia lumia 920.
Microsoft should do something about this. Any way to minimize this without hard resetting or restoring?
Thanks.02-02-2013 02:45 AMLike 0 -
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- There currently seems to be no way other than hard reset. Microsoft needs to fix this.
Source:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...e-section.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...-category.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...e-storage.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/htc...-5-gb-now.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...r-dilemma.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...illing-me.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...memory-go.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...ree-space.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/win...-5gig-now.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/nok...1-storage.html
http://forums.windowscentral.com/htc...g-storage.html02-02-2013 04:39 PMLike 0 - MS needs to get off their collective a$$es and get moving. If they want to put out half baked, Swiss cheese software they better be prepared to fix more than one problem a quarter. BB is going to kick MS out of the way if MS doesn't get moving with some updates. The consumers won't wait for a yearly update or one fix a quarter. MS needs to get ahead of the curve to have a chance and stay there.
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02-02-2013 05:32 PMLike 3 - Share
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Oh, at least half of my Other is downloaded maps.- Share
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GoodThings2Life likes this.02-02-2013 05:37 PMLike 1 - Share
- I have over 5gb of other. I know for a fact there is more in there than my misc app data. I don't have that much on my phone. If that's all it is than MS needs to work on some compression in the OS. Or at least give access to it so we can decide what is necessary for us. This iPhone approach is the exact reason I will never own an Apple product. I want to know what is there and where it is.02-02-2013 06:01 PMLike 0
- Get used to disappointment.
Seriously, it's not exposed, and each app is sandboxed, so only the OS would be able to tell you, and it's not. Try a soft reset to see if it cleans up some temp data (that's when such crap is cleared off of iPhones)02-02-2013 06:59 PMLike 0 - Soft reset doesn't change anything. So you're telling me I have to give up 5gb+ and room for OS (1.7gb if I remember) just to make this thing work? 32-7=25gb user space. I think mine was about 24gb last I checked. feel sorry for the people who bought HTC with only 8gb. I think its the HTC anyway?!?! And with SD card, can the OS off load other to SD card? With 8gb internal only and no ability to offload, I can see your phone being useless after 6months. What is the deal? If it was going to be this bloated, they should have made 16gb internal and SD slot a OS requirement.02-02-2013 07:31 PMLike 0
- It's definitely NOT one note folders. I loaded up my 8x with OneNote folders today and my other stayed at
1.35. I think it's more likely IE history, call logs, SMS logs, etc...Sent from my AT&T 8x using Board Express02-02-2013 08:43 PMLike 0 -
- Yep, I have. Couldn't install the Portico update because I had no space (it wanted like 450 Mb free or something). Funny that after a hard reset and subsequent restore of all the exact same apps I suddenly had tons of free space (about 3 Gb)02-03-2013 02:10 AMLike 0
- "Other" includes any/all of the following: email account data, documents (be they attachments or storage cached from SkyDrive and SharePoint), browser history/cache, downloaded maps data, application settings/data (for example if an app downloads a lot of cached images for live tiles or lockscreen art, etc.), and pretty much all the non-categorized stuff. It sucks we can't "see" more specifics, and that's what I'd like to see improved, but my guess is you sync a lot of email data and attachments and/or maps and browser information. You could try the following:
- Settings > Applications > Internet Explorer > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Maps > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Search > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Reset Office
I read a couple of the responses above and see things like "I only had 450MB free" (not picking on one person, just using an example) and think to myself, "WTF?! Remove some content, install update, and sync the content back again. YOU chose to install so many apps and content." Some of you are just complaining to complain because you want a piece of plastic and silicon to be smarter than you. "Gee, why can't I use my phone without consuming disk space?! WHAT?! YOU MEAN APPS TAKE UP SPACE?!" Good grief people, think!!- Share
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02-03-2013 09:14 AMLike 4 -
You're not giving up anything, you're using the device.02-03-2013 09:56 AMLike 0 - MS needs to get off their collective a$$es and get moving. If they want to put out half baked, Swiss cheese software they better be prepared to fix more than one problem a quarter. BB is going to kick MS out of the way if MS doesn't get moving with some updates. The consumers won't wait for a yearly update or one fix a quarter. MS needs to get ahead of the curve to have a chance and stay there.
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conanheath likes this.02-03-2013 10:23 AMLike 1 - Share
- I'm saying you've used 5GB of space for app data that isn't one of the categories specifically broken out. But it's your data. If you hard reset your phone (clear it back to out of the box condition) then Other will be pretty much nothing. I'll post a shot when my refurb arrives next week, if you don't want to do it on yours.
You're not giving up anything, you're using the device.02-03-2013 10:56 AMLike 0 - Mine is currently at 4.21 GB of data, and I'm convinced it HAS to be related to the number of installed apps. I'm sure a chunk of it is related to Nokia Maps (I have 251.3 MB of maps installed on my phone), but that's it. I just went (after looking at the size of "Other") and deleted my browsing, search, and maps history like was suggested, along with resetting my camera and Office. It dropped it to an exact 4.00 GB, so there is SOME blame there. However, that is still 4.00 GB that's not fully accounted for.
I've got the 251.3 MB of data from my installed maps (of IL and MOP), but I don't know about the rest. I have a Lumia 920 though, and am at 5.32 GB of free space, so I am not too concerned about a storage crunch, but I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned that uninstalled apps leave something behind before, so I am wondering if we need something like Android, where you can manually go in and delete all data related to a specific app.
Whatever the cause, they definitely need to give people the ability to see what it is. I have a lot of games on my phone, but their saves should not make up 3+ GB when the probably 50+ games on my Xbox 360 probably don't take up that much.02-03-2013 11:55 AMLike 0 - "Other" includes any/all of the following: email account data, documents (be they attachments or storage cached from SkyDrive and SharePoint), browser history/cache, downloaded maps data, application settings/data (for example if an app downloads a lot of cached images for live tiles or lockscreen art, etc.), and pretty much all the non-categorized stuff. It sucks we can't "see" more specifics, and that's what I'd like to see improved, but my guess is you sync a lot of email data and attachments and/or maps and browser information. You could try the following:
- Settings > Applications > Internet Explorer > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Maps > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Search > Delete History
- Settings > Applications > Reset Office
I read a couple of the responses above and see things like "I only had 450MB free" (not picking on one person, just using an example) and think to myself, "WTF?! Remove some content, install update, and sync the content back again. YOU chose to install so many apps and content." Some of you are just complaining to complain because you want a piece of plastic and silicon to be smarter than you. "Gee, why can't I use my phone without consuming disk space?! WHAT?! YOU MEAN APPS TAKE UP SPACE?!" Good grief people, think!!02-03-2013 03:06 PMLike 0 - MS needs to get off their collective a$$es and get moving. If they want to put out half baked, Swiss cheese software they better be prepared to fix more than one problem a quarter. BB is going to kick MS out of the way if MS doesn't get moving with some updates. The consumers won't wait for a yearly update or one fix a quarter. MS needs to get ahead of the curve to have a chance and stay there.02-03-2013 03:38 PMLike 0
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