I never thought I'd say it....damn iPhone 4

[Tooner]

It may be worth checking the photo settings for your phone on iTunes. I've found some of the defaults are to replicate everything in iPhoto or others automatically. Best change them to only selected albums so that you are not constantly reloading the photos across.

Have you downloaded cartoons from iTunes? This happened to me when my son bought a series of Spongebob cartoons. I didn't realise it would automagically put them on the iPhone and found myself over capacity and unable to do anything about it.

 

[markis10]

Some of the WOW stores still have some stock of the iPhones at great prices for those running out of memory, kind of sad going in there though and talking to staff who dont have a job soon!

 

[QF WP]

Well, deleted most of the Apps and hoping to have enough memory to sync this morning.

 

[AVC]

We have a saying in the tech industry.

"Data you don't have backed up is data you never really wanted in the first place."

Katie has good advice there.

I'm liking my Nokia more and more from reading this thread Might upgrade to an HTC

 

[QF WP]

Deleting all the Apps has given me 0.18Gb, so sync'ing now and fingers crossed when I finish my meeting, it will have also...

 

[anat0l]

LW, I'm almost tempted to say that I'll go over there and personally help you out of your sticky situation.... for a small fee


The "walled garden" that Apple creates with iDevices and iTunes can be downright annoying at the best of times, not to mention that iTunes demands system resources equivalent to ordering a hydrogen bomb for a building demolition. It really annoys me why Apple engineers in their wisdom can't make a sync work when there is little space on the iDevice. What happened to a simple procedure of querying the master system to be used as a proxy?


Do iPhones/iPod touches/iPads have an "alarm" which can tell you when you have so much memory left? I know that at least it warns you when you have < 20% battery left. And I also know it doesn't warn you when you're about to run out of RAM (viz. it will simply crash when that happens).

I also didn't know that Picasa can work with iDevices (i.e. not just the mobile app, but also through the computer via sync, which is markedly different than channeling everything through iTunes).

 

[simongr]

Every time you sync to your computer the screen that flashes up in iTunes shows the available space as a bar/slider at the bottom of the screen.

LW only .18GB??? On my iPad I have 40GB of apps... Mind you that includes 20GB of comics in one app...

 

[anat0l]

Every time you sync to your computer the screen that flashes up in iTunes shows the available space as a bar/slider at the bottom of the screen.

That bar is not completely accurate until iTunes finishes a sync. If it doesn't finish a sync it may not be accurate at all.

Best gauge is just open Settings on the device and read off the space free. From how I understand it, for most sync operations some space is required on the iDevice in order to enable a sync; that temporary space is then relinquished at the end of the sync. (This seems to be the thing, since I transfer new music to my iPod touch when it was low on space. The new music files easily fit within the remaining space, but iTunes chastised me for not having enough space on the device.)


Agree with everyone else though - never get too close to that end-of-space edge, otherwise you'll be in a world of hurt. It's literally like trying to rearrange the furniture in your house when there's barely a scrap of spare floor space left.

 

[simongr]

Agree with everyone else though - never get too close to that end-of-space edge, otherwise you'll be in a world of hurt. It's literally like trying to rearrange the furniture in your house when there's barely a scrap of spare floor space left.

you've seen my garage then...

 

[QF WP]

simongr, this is a humble 18 months old iPhone 4 with 14Gb memory (and 12 Gb apparently of photo/video), not a latest version iPad like you have - and it's in the hands of a technophobe , not a IT comfortable person like you. Yes it has (under both methods described) only 0.18Gb free space, after deleting all non-essential Apps.

anat0l, if you are crazy enough to offer, I might be smart enough to accept - but I thought you were off to BKK this Easter? I am thinking of just making it through to the weekend so that I can go and find some genius at a bar somewhere. Of course, if I need to delete 568 photos then my nights are going to be busy.

However, any person that can solve my problems can partake of a carton of alcohol (either beer or wine) that is in my garage. So it would be easy for you anat0l - just bring the car around, or walk to my place and I'll drive you back with your booty. Others who are BNE based can also attempt to bring me into 2012 technology...the offer is open.

I tried to update to the latest version of iTunes (before I can run the upgrade to the iOS). It won't even let me do that - an error tells me that the downloaded Install file that I am trying to run, won't - it reads "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact my support personnel or package vendor".

So back to square 1 and if I didn't need this phone, it would have met a high dive death by now.

 

[DeKa]

I think Lindsay just needs to plug in his iPhone the in iTunes at the top of the pane where it says Summary Apps Music Podcasts Photos etc pick any of those other than Summary and set it to do not sync (that type of content).

That will then free up heaps of space on the iPhone.

Next, go back to Summary tab and do the upgrade to iOS 5.1 which will solve most of the problems he's having.

Then, go back to the music, photos etc tabs and manually select what you want to sync.

 

[simongr]

simongr, this is a humble 18 months old iPhone 4 with 14Gb memory (and 12 Gb apparently of photo/video), not a latest version iPad like you have - and it's in the hands of a technophobe , not a IT comfortable person like you.

Just for accuracy you have a 16GB phone

I tried to update to the latest version of iTunes (before I can run the upgrade to the iOS). It won't even let me do that - an error tells me that the downloaded Install file that I am trying to run, won't - it reads "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact my support personnel or package vendor".

Your underlying issue is highlighted in bold and red above

 

[Mal]

Your underlying issue is highlighted in bold and red above

Of course good phones allow you to plug in media cards to increase the storage. But apple might get there eventually. LOL. when they can market a apple only expensive expansion kit.

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[Katie]

If Anat0l is in BKK, I may be able to help over the weekend. Am certainly not a genius, but can generally get my way around iPhones and iPads and Windows PCs. Promise not to swim with yours.

 

[anat0l]

If Anat0l is in BKK, I may be able to help over the weekend. Am certainly not a genius, but can generally get my way around iPhones and iPads and Windows PCs. Promise not to swim with yours.

At the moment my spare day might be Good Friday or Easter Saturday.

I leave on Monday morning, so if I don't get to it by then, then Katie, it's all yours.

And Katie, stop under-representing yourself - we all know you're more than competent to handle this one.

 

[simongr]

Of course good phones allow you to plug in media cards to increase the storage. But apple might get there eventually. LOL. when they can market a apple only expensive expansion kit.

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You used the phrase "good phones" - I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.

 

[QF WP]

My goal is to clear some photos and see the iPhone Genius Bar tomorrow.

We have another issue - turned my daughters phone on this morning and it says it's disabled - for another 6,366,742 minutes

 

[Mal]

We have another issue - turned my daughters phone on this morning and it says it's disabled - for another 6,366,742 minutes

Someone has been typing in incorrect unlock passwords?

 

[QF WP]

No, it's been off for months...

 

[Mal]

No, it's been off for months...

Means nothing... Before it was off, someone was playing with the phone and didn't enter the correct passcode.
iOS: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen