HT1386 i cannot sync my full playlist. Songs showing up in "on this phone" greyed out with dotted circle next to it. How do i fix it?

I cannot sync my whole playlist. Keep having songs greyed out in "on this phone" with dotted circle next to them. Tried restarting phone and itunes. Also tried syncing songs out of the phone and re-syncing them back on with no success. I really do not want to reset the whole phone. Please help.

To clarify, I meant to say, when I plug my phone into my computer and connect to ITunes.

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I recently downloaded about 20 new songs and put them into iTunes. I synced my iPhone with iTunes, but suddenly unchecked songs started syncing to my iPhone and the songs i had downloaded would not. I looked into it and under "on my phone," the songs had dotted circles to the left of them. I restarted the phone, i restarted the computer, and finally i cleared the phone and restored it to the back-up. After restoring it didn't work, I unsynced all of my music from the phone and tried to resync all of the checked songs onto it but ALL of the songs i previously had on the phone have the dotted circle next to them. I am so incredibly frustrated and have no idea why this is happening. Why it 1) downloads unchecked songs, 2) has dotted circles next to all of my songs, and 3) won't sync any music I have checked as they are all now marked with the dotted circles. Please help! How do i fix this?

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HT1386 i cannot sync my full playlist. Songs showing up in "on this phone" greyed out with dotted circle next to it. How do i fix it?

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