[Blindtlk] Serious problem with my iPhone 5S

Mon May 2 10:25:04 UTC 2016

How do you back up info to the I cloud?
 Jusin

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From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ericka via
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 5:31 PM
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Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>; Lloyd Rasmussen <lras at sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Serious problem with my iPhone 5S

Some of us don't trust the iCloud yet. I'm starting to have no choice but I
don't like it. It's always good to have a back up so there's nothing wrong
with having things backed up on either a thumb drive or in my case an
external hard drive.

Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."

 from my iPhone

> On May 1, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Carly Mihalakis via blindtlk
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Good morning, Remember people, considder why in the world one would shell
out for extra storrage space which you carry around with you when you can
just as simply and perhaps easily utilize the option of free cloud storrage
space albeit with a less mighty phone?
> a less mighty 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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