IPhone "other" space taking up massive amounts of space even after restore?

I recently bought a 16GB iPhone 5 to replace my brick of an iPhone 4, and I put my most recent backup of my 4 onto my new 5. I didn't take storage into consideration with it being a brand new phone and all, but recently (a month later) I have been running into storage issues when I go to take a picture in the Camera app. It began to say that there was not enough storage to take a picture, so after a few attempts at making space on my phone I plugged it into the computer. I found out that the "other" category in the color-coded storage bar had a whopping 6GB of space, hogging all of my phone's memory. After reading a few forums/articles, I backed up the phone and restored it in hopes of reducing (or even eliminating) the "other" space that was plaguing my memory. After a restore from the backup, my storage bar read this:
Capacity - 13.47GB
Audio - 0.01GB (voice memos from the previous backup)
Photos - 2.3GB (from the previous backup)
Apps - 0.03GB
Other - 7.1GB (it seems that a restore from backup only made the "other" space worse)
Free - 4GB
If I go to the Usage section on my phone's interface, the storage information reads:
Storage
3.9GB Available
9.5GB Used
Photos & Camera: 2.3GB
Instagram: 23.2MB
What is up with the "other" space and why is it taking so much space on my phone?

This indicates corrupt files. You will need to restore as new.

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