I have a 6GB iphone 4. My photo stream takes up 4.7KB, how to delete?

Question

I always wondered why I only had 50 photos, why I deleted every single app and why I don't have any memory even after purging EVERYTHING.  It looks like all my memory is being used by my photo stream.  However, I don't have a photostream "Tab" or "album" to delete from.  My photo stream is "Turned off" under all of my settings options for iCloud and Photos.  I need help! my iphone is basically unusable since any time I write an email or message I get the "Storage Almost Full" error, or that there is Not enough room to take photos or download an app.

Answer 1

If you connect to iTunes and look at the usage, it sounds like you have a lot of "Other".  This category is normally about 1 GB and consists of the iOS itself, plus a variety of misc. stuff.  If "Other" is most of your 5.5 GB of used space, chances are you have something corrupted and/or a whole bunch of pictures or videos attached to iMessages.
First try doing some clean up of media files attached to iMessages to see if that helps.  However, you may need to Restore the iPhone (first by re-loading your backup, but if that doesn't help then Restore again without using a backup, which means re-doing ALL your settings).  Restoring without a backup will surely get your "Other" down to 1 GB or less, but you'll lose some things like old text messages, game/app progress, etc.