Getting rid of "Other" ... nightmare journey
So after I restoring the iPod Touch with the patched firmware iPod2,1_3.1.3_7E18_Custom_Restore.ipsw, everything worked nicely, but now I have a whole 1.64Gb area of "Other" that I don't seem to be able to reclaim what so ever. It doesn't seem to be some user data, as I couldn't restore back my application information even after I reinstall the app (be it AppStore apps or JailBroken apps). So that 1.64Gb is like totally wasted for no good reason.
So I was trying to see if there's any simple way to reclaim those "Other" area without restoring the patched firmware (and thus roll back everything and require me to resync all the apps all over again), and I couldn't find any article online that gives a better answer than restoring. So I went ahead and did a restore with the patched firmware.
After the restore, I checked and found that there is about 200Mb of "Others" stuff. Still wondering what the heck those "others" items are, and wonder if there's ways to get rid of eve those 200Mb.
And that began my journey of hell.
So I tried the "Erase all content setting" and damn it took SUPER FOREVER. I started it at around 5:50 pm, and by 8:00 pm, I realized that something went very wrong.
By 9:00pm, I realized that this piece of crap clear content shit won't ever come back. it stuck at booting up screen (for case it's kind of a pineapple). Time to go for Extreme measure.
So I follow the procedure from the Apple link, did a full restore on the patched firmware (saw Steve Job's cartoon look), and after almost 1.5 hours, I am back to square one now. There is 257.3 Mb as "Other" on the iPod Touch. But I don't give a damn anymore.
By the way, the firmware update process was very long, so expect hours of time when you plan on doing that. I restoring of the iPod Software take like an hour(!!), and restoring backup take almost more than an hour (which turns out provide almost zero value). Also, syncing all the podcast audio content takes a lot of time too. 2Gb of podcast tool almost half an hour. So I guess iPod touch 2g is using some slow slow flash memory.
Looks like there's other people who were not happy with the iPod firmware restore taking almost forever.
So I was trying to see if there's any simple way to reclaim those "Other" area without restoring the patched firmware (and thus roll back everything and require me to resync all the apps all over again), and I couldn't find any article online that gives a better answer than restoring. So I went ahead and did a restore with the patched firmware.
After the restore, I checked and found that there is about 200Mb of "Others" stuff. Still wondering what the heck those "others" items are, and wonder if there's ways to get rid of eve those 200Mb.
And that began my journey of hell.
So I tried the "Erase all content setting" and damn it took SUPER FOREVER. I started it at around 5:50 pm, and by 8:00 pm, I realized that something went very wrong.
By 9:00pm, I realized that this piece of crap clear content shit won't ever come back. it stuck at booting up screen (for case it's kind of a pineapple). Time to go for Extreme measure.
So I follow the procedure from the Apple link, did a full restore on the patched firmware (saw Steve Job's cartoon look), and after almost 1.5 hours, I am back to square one now. There is 257.3 Mb as "Other" on the iPod Touch. But I don't give a damn anymore.
By the way, the firmware update process was very long, so expect hours of time when you plan on doing that. I restoring of the iPod Software take like an hour(!!), and restoring backup take almost more than an hour (which turns out provide almost zero value). Also, syncing all the podcast audio content takes a lot of time too. 2Gb of podcast tool almost half an hour. So I guess iPod touch 2g is using some slow slow flash memory.
Looks like there's other people who were not happy with the iPod firmware restore taking almost forever.
posted by Deecay | 1:41 PM
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