No storage space left what is other?

My iPhone4 has run out of storage space but is showing nearly 6 gig marked not as music or videos etc but marked as other what is other and how do you get rid of it

Other is anything that does not fit in the rest of the catergories.
Typically if it is over 1GB that indicates corruption.
Restore the device from backup, "Other" should reduce in size significantly. If it does not, restore as new.

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Nourh32 wrote:
My storage space on my iPhone 5 keeps showing no storage space left, even after I delete stuff the space fills up alone and Im back with not having space left. Could this be a virus? What should I do?
Before blindly jumping in and and trying a "shotgun" approach, first do some basic diagnosis. You may not have to restore your phone and wipe out all your data. Connect the phone to iTunes, click on its icon, and see how storage is allocated (on the bottom of the Status screen). The key entries are Other and Photos. If Photos is larger than you think it should be, see: Why does my iOS device say I have more photos than I can find?
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The storage space taken up by "Other" can be made up of, notes or files of any kind you've added to the iPod whilst using it as a hard disk or album artwork.
There will always be a few MBs of used space under "other" but if it's in GBs it's unusually large.
If the iPod is enabled for disk use, you can look at the folders on the iPod through Explorer or Finder and delete anything you don't want.
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