"Other" category in iPhone

This is about the storage on my 16GB iPhone 4S. iOS 5.1 if that makes a difference.
My phone is full, and I've been deleting pictures and apps to free it up. However, a big chunk of space is lost to the "Other" category. 2 gigs to be exact. I have tried deleting the cache/cookies/history on Safari, it removed 0.07 gb.
So I have two questions,
First of all, what is this 2 gigs of space for "other" being used for?
I have no tabs open on safari, and as I said, I cleared all temporary files. I also do not have a significant amount of calendar entires, 10 at the max. I have heard that it is the iOS, but my 16 gig iPhone shows up as 13.8 gig on iTunes, so I would assume that the missing 2.2 gig would be lost to the iOS, no?
And second, how can I recover this space?
I have heard restoring, but what kind of restore in specific? Can it be from backup, or must it be fully reset to new? I do not want to lose my text messages, so I'd rather not set up as new. Or is there another option?
Thanks in advance

Restoring from backup helped me slightly. It went down to 0.8 gb, but its back to 2 gb again.
What you can do, and I am going to soon, is see if it's something that is a problem with just your phone. I'm going to back up my phone, and move the back up. I'm then going to restore the phone to new. If the phone still has a large "other" category, it is specifically a phone problem and I will go to the apple store to see about them fixing it. If its not there anymore, I'm not sure what I'm going to do because I don't want to lose all my information.
Then of course when I'm done I'm going to put my back up back onto my phone. But you have to be sure to move your back up before you do the initial restore to new, because if your phone syncs while in the new state, it will wipe out your back up.

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when looking at the storage space available on my iphone, there is a large amount of space taken up by "other" (almost 2 GB an dI only have 16 GB). I want to add other things to my phone, but I don't have enough space. The "Other" category only seems to grow and doesn't decrease (like when I delete apps and music, it seems to stay close to the same while apps and music go way down). How can I remove some of this "other" stuff?

"Other" data is real data that you put on your phone by using the built in apps. It is not music, not videos, not pictures and not App Store app data. It is "OTHER" meaning everything that does not fall into these categories. Such as:
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Probably a few I've missed. There was a problem in an earlier version where deleted MMS messages left behind their attachments, but that has been fixed as of 6.1. The reason that deleting music recovers some Other space is because it delete cover art. But is also screws up your music, which will no longer play correctly.
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I really think that it's coming from something I can't see, especially since it's still there after resetting to factory settings and restoring from backup.
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"Other" data is real data that you put on your phone by using the built in apps. It is not music, not videos, not pictures and not App Store app data. It is "OTHER" meaning everything that does not fall into these categories. Such as:
email messages and attachments
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iMessages
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Music library database index (but not the music itself)
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Game Center status
Music catalog
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Hey,
I was fixing to sync my 3G iPhone when i realized i didnt have enough room for what i wanted because the "other" category is taking up so much space. Ive reset iTunes and iPhone but still see so much space taken up by "other." I've deleted all emails and texts and only have a few pictures on my iPhone but the "other" still takes up over 3gigs on my iPhone.
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THank you so much!!!
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OK,
I checked my prefernces and you were right, the applications weren't checked. Thank you.
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Using an older iPhone 4, current iOS and iTunes (for ML).
Recently when I "sync" the iPhone to iTunes the "other" category in the memory bar bloats to many times the normal size. The best I can tell it seems to duplicate the used memory of all the music, apps, photos, etc on the phone. For example if I have 12gig music, 2gig apps 1.5 gig photos for total of 16.5gig the "other" category will bloat to 16.5gig and create an out of memory situation on the phone, basically "crashes" the sync operation.
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