[Blindtlk] Serious problem with my iPhone 5S

Sat Mar 12 17:36:07 UTC 2016

The troubling thing is that when I look at my usage, my apps can't
possibly add up to the amount of storage that's supposedly used. I
only have about half a gigabyte of photos, no videos and no music.
Each of my apps only uses 300 mb or less. It also seems like I had
space last week that's gone even though I've deleted all the videos I
downloaded. When videos are deleted, do they sit in some kind of trash
can for a while? Do I need to re-delete them to clear up space?
Arielle

On 3/12/16, Judy Jones via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Thank heavens for phones with SD cards.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Rasmussen via blindtlk
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:48 AM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: Lloyd Rasmussen
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Serious problem with my iPhone 5S
>
> If you have BARD Mobile on your phone, remember that each 11-hour book
> takes
> up 120 MB of space. Consider how many books or magazine issues you need to
> have on the phone. Podcasts, video and pictures can take up considerable
> space, also. Apps take up space, but for some of them, their data is the
> biggest space user.
>
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arielle Silverman via blindtlk
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:35 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: Arielle Silverman
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Serious problem with my iPhone 5S
>
> Hi Sami, I've had the exact same issue on my 5S with the memory
> capacity mysteriously decreasing over time. I don't know how to fix it
> yet, but suspect it may need to be "defragged" somehow. I'll let you
> know if I find the solution and would love advice from others who have
> had their storage mysteriously disappear.
> Best, Arielle
>
> On 3/11/16, Sami Osborne via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So I'm having a pretty major problem with my iPhone 5S.  Don't
>> worry, though.  This has nothing to do with the phone crashing or
>> freezing, but rather a storage issue.
>>
>> The other afternoon, while I was charging my phone, it was first
>> off due to the battery percentage being nearly 0%.  When the
>> phone came back on, VoiceOver launched using a different voice
>> than I use.  I normally use Alex, but that time it started up
>> with Samantha, which I believe is the default rotor voice for
>> American English.  This is the first part of the problem, since
>> when the phone shut off automatically, it has always remained at
>> Alex.  Anyway, I didn't know what else to do, so I decided to
>> delete Alex and re-install him.  However, although the
>> re-installation was successful, I got a message saying that the
>> storage was almost full.  I believe that that's probably because
>> the file for Alex is one of the biggest on the Iphone (869 M.G).
>> and probably larger than any apps.  I deleted a few apps that I
>> don't really use, but when I did that, it was still a lot less
>> space than it was previously.  Before the deletion, my phone was
>> at 0 bytes, and afterwords, it was only at 14 megabytes.  I'm
>> really concerned because, even though I can use my phone, I'm
>> afraid that I can't install any more apps.  So I have two
>> questions for you guys: 1.  Is there any way to make it so that
>> my phone is at its original storage space from when I deleted
>> Alex? 2.  Is there any way to make it so that Alex is your
>> default language and dialect as well as the default rotor
>> language? If not, what can I do to change the voice from Samantha
>> back to Alex in case this problem happens again? I thought I
>> might have changed voices with the rotor before, but haven't
>> realized how I did it.
>>
>> For the first question, I am considering backing up my phone to
>> iTunes on my windows computer, but am worried that if I do that,
>> I will loose all of my apps, music, and settings that I changed.
>>
>> I hope that you can help me to solve this rather frustrating
>> issue.
>>
>> Thanks in advance and have a good weekend,
>>
>> Sami
>>
>> Pdds.  I appologize in advance for going off-topic, but I just
>> received my grade for my first test for my college class as part
>> of my blindness training that I took last week.  I got a 94.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
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