Other takes up 4.5gb on my iphone4 8gb

Ok so I have a 8gb iPhone 4 and I recently synced it to my iTunes. When I sync is it says "other" and that takes up 4.5 gb of space. Let me remind you that I have 16 apps and that only takes up 1.06 gb. I have no music. No books and only 30 pics. My email isn't synced onto it and I only have like 80 contacts I have no space whatsoever on my phone now. So I restored my phone and then restored it from back up and nothing has changed. Please help me!

OTHER DATA
Other data on your device should only be about 1.5GB and larger than this may indicate corrupt data.
Read http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_remove_other_data_your_iphone
http://www.imobie.com/support/what-is-the-other-on-my-iphone.htm
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4542883?start=0&tstart=0
To get rid of it you need to restore not from a backup.
Restoring http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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