ITunes saying iPhone is over capacity

I have an iPhone 5 16GB and am running the latest version of iTunes on my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro. When I look at the usage section on my phone without it connected to the computer, it says I have 1.5GB available. But when I connect and sync it to the computer, the availability in 'usage' drops to 0 bytes and iTunes says the phone is over capacity by 253mb. Please Help!!!
Thanks

I found the culprit in my case: after update to itunes 12 iPhone is X GB over the limit.
Check your sync settings for each type of content in the left sidebar. In my case I had sync turned off for everything but ringtones. After iTunes update for some reason the entire music library is set to sync with the phone. Turning it off reconciled the storage issue. Perhaps in your case it is some other new content marked for syncing.

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