I can't sync or back up my iPhone. And other is coming out for the entire usage. What should I do?

For some reason "other" is showing up as taking all of the memory on my iPhone, and iTunes isn't letting me sync or back-up my phone as a result.

Try Andrei Cerbu's post here or see TS1538: iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows, in particular section 5, forcing a driver update.
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