Cydia takes up 4gigs?

[croft]

in my itunes i have 4g taking up "other" after i jailbroke my itouch. my friend's iphone doesnt even have gig after he jailbroke his. i tried searching for files to delete but i cant find any to spare. do you all have this much space taken up? if no, what should i do/look for. thanks

[alek]

not only cydia but i-formating about 1-3 gb. i only have about 3gig but with over 2 gigs of other stuff so you do have an abnormal amount

[seann33uk]

have you been updating when going to a new jailbreak or have you done a restore and update!!?

become if you have just been updating then your problem is this. see when you update with doing a proper restore the jailbroken space becomes "dead space" and after each update and jailbreak its slowly going to take more and more.

my solution; backup your phone then do a proper restore and update.

[croft]

cool thanks, so i should restore to original settings &
re-jailbreak?

[boxxa]

Personally, always setup your phone as new. People have so many problems with restore from backup and jailbreaking.

[croft]

now its 5g, is there a step by step post or something? i havent found one yet. i havent updated anything except apps since i jailbroke it a couple weeks ago.