Movies and music vanished from iPhone 3Gs

Hello! I discovered today that mysteriously, all of my movies and music vanished from my iPhone 3Gs. I have not recently synced my phone or updated the software. My iMac is currently on a FedEx truck being shipped out west for a month long vacation so syncing is not an option. Also, when I try to download new stuff from iTunes, the phone tells me there's not enough space when there is plenty since all my music and movies are gone. I called Apple and essentially, I was told that they couldn't help me at this time. Has anyone else had this happen? It's incredibly frustrating as I was planning to watch movies on the plane

Apparently, data or metadata is corrupted on your phone. Assuming that your phone was never jailbroken or hacked, the solution is to restore in iTunes using your most recent good backup, but without your computer that's not an option. Simply syncing with it probably won't work for the same reason you can't download, and risks replacing a previous good backup with corrupted data.
You can try resetting, but I'm not optimistic - press both the home and sleep/wake buttons until the Apple logo appears.

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