"Other" is taking up 9 GB on my iPhone

Okay so today I went to sync my phone since yesterday I bought new songs on my computer. Then I realized I had 3 videos (a movie and 2 TV shows) that I didn't need on my phone so I went to take them off. They refused to stop being synced onto my phone and even though now they show on the phone that they're not there on that stupid "On this iPhone" thing on my computer it says they are and are taking up more than 2 GB on the phone. Then I go to make sure the music is there and it shows that there's only about 700 of my 1200 songs! I go to sync them but my computer says that there's not enough space and I need about 900 MB more to sync. That is because not only are my videos taking up 2GB the stupid "Other" is taking up 9 GB! I have looked on the site to see if there's a solution to this but everyone seems to say that restoring will solve everything. But I don't want to restore if I don't have to. Is there any other solution? I have looked up others and some say to delete your call logs and stuff like that but even though I did it did nothing since there were barely any calls. What should I do?

" Is there any other solution? "
No.
"What should I do?"
Restore

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