How to get rid of other/corrupt data?

My phone: iPhone 4s, 16gb, newest IOS 8.1 (newest right now) / Newest iTunes on computer
Multiple times now under IOS 8, I've attempted to sync my phone (only music) and suddenly 9+ gb of `other` data appear when I plug in my phone, which then deletes nearly all my music (which takes up about 8gb). The red circle and square appear and I cannot play any songs.
I`ve tried restoring to new, but I don`t want to lose all my texts/contacts/notes etc. so I always end up backing it up, only to get the same problem yet again. This is the 4th time now and sometimes it ends up going away but this time it isn't and it has been weeks.
When I check my data usage under my settings it says I have little to no space available, yet when I look at the division of the data between apps, my music is the highest at 750mb (the 100ish of my favourite songs i was able to squeeze into the space available), so i assume there is some sort of corrupt data I am unaware of.
I've called apple help in the past which fixed the problem by playing with my itunes and icloud sign in settings. It fixed the issue, only to have it return the next week when I synced it again.
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what did you do to make it go back to normal?
Also, is there a way to restore to new, but also keep all texts/contacts/notes? As I can simply re download apps and sync my music from my computer.
Thanks for the help!

ca$hbury828 wrote:
I`ve tried restoring to new, but I don`t want to lose all my texts/contacts/notes etc. so I always end up backing it up, only to get the same problem yet again.
Yes, because you have corrupted data in your back up. As long as you keep loading from that corrupted back up, you'll have the same problem.
Your notes and contacts should be synced to something (e.g. iCloud, Gmail, etc). If you restore the phone as new and resync, you shouldn't loose them. Texts are a bit tricker. I use PhoneView (Mac) to make archive PDFs of text messages I want to keep. TouchCopy works for Mac and Windows. There's no good way that I know of to reload the texts. However, they may be part of the problem so, you may be better off archiving them (you could always copy a PDF of the texts back to the phone) and starting fresh.
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