4.8 gigs of "Other" on iPhone; wiped out music on sync

I have an old version iPhone. When I last went to sync to my computer, it completely wiped all music content from the phone. Now the main iphone page in iTunes is showing I have 4.8 gig of "other" content on the phone, so more than half my space is used up for what I don't know. Any thoughts on what "other" is, how to delete it so I can get capacity back? Thanks,

When coded correctly, other is all the information on your phone which is not music, videos or photos. Basiclly its the contacts/calendar/apps, etc.
What happened here was since the sync was interrupted your music/vids were improperly synced by the OS. The iPhone doesn't know what the data is so it codes it as other. Since it doesn't know what the data is, it doesn't know what to do with it or how to delete it.

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