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iPhone 'Running out of Space' message anomaly
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
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The last couple of days I started getting the "Running of of disc space, please delete some music or movies" message periodically. The weird thing is that iTunes says I still have 2.83 GB of free space. What gives? Anyone else run into this?
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Clinically Insane
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That would be lame if OS X on the iPhone is as space sensitive as Mac OS X.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Senior User
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Nope, and I have only 500 MB of free space.
Do you have any 3rd party apps installed? If you do, try removing a few and see if the problem persists. I read somewhere in the forums that the iPhone's media memory and OS/Apps memory are two separate banks, but it couldn't hurt to give it a try.
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Originally Posted by frdmfghtr
Nope, and I have only 500 MB of free space.
Do you have any 3rd party apps installed? If you do, try removing a few and see if the problem persists. I read somewhere in the forums that the iPhone's media memory and OS/Apps memory are two separate banks, but it couldn't hurt to give it a try.
Hmmm... interesting. I do have 20+ 3rd party apps installed along with quite a number of Summerboard themes. Maybe I'll try removing some of the themes I don't use first.
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Originally Posted by Macfreak7
Thanks for that. I've done a bit of poking around on the subject and the reviews seem to be pretty mixed on whether or not doing this will end up bricking the iPhone so, being a novice at under-the-hood OS operations like this, I'm a bit hesitant to try it.
Has anyone here pulled this off successfully using 1.1.1?
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Mac Elite
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There are two partitions on the iPhone -- a 300 MB system partition that is normally read-only, and a ~7.5 GB writable partition for your music/movies/whatever.
On a 1.1.1/1.1.2 iPhone you have something like 40 MB of free space on the root partition, and that fills up quickly if you're installing 3rd-party stuff.
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Originally Posted by gradient
Thanks for that. I've done a bit of poking around on the subject and the reviews seem to be pretty mixed on whether or not doing this will end up bricking the iPhone so, being a novice at under-the-hood OS operations like this, I'm a bit hesitant to try it.
Has anyone here pulled this off successfully using 1.1.1?
I've done this one my 1.0.2, now upgraded to 1.1.1 and its been working fine.
All it does is create a shortcut that points to the applications folder on a different "partition", so nothing ought to go wrong really.
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Originally Posted by Macfreak7
I've done this one my 1.0.2, now upgraded to 1.1.1 and its been working fine.
All it does is create a shortcut that points to the applications folder on a different "partition", so nothing ought to go wrong really.
Ya, I had just read several people stating that it created issues for them, but maybe they were just that much more inexperienced then I am and as a result did something wrong. I moved the Applications folder, created the symlink and then rebooted. Everything seems to be working just fine.
For future reference for anybody else, here is what I did.
1. (ssh into iPhone)
2. cd /
3. mv /Applications /private/var/Applications
4. ln -s /private/var/Applications /Applications
5. (reboot the iPhone)
I'll report back if any issues crop up as a result, but I don't expect there will be. I've tried installing a new app since making the changes and neither Installer.app or the OS seem to have any problems recognizing the symlink. Very cool.
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