"other" taking up 3.9 GB of storage?

I have deleted everything on my phone including my email account, photos, photo stream, all music, apps, notes, and reminders. I cleared all internet caches and history/cookies etc. Yet still, I cannot install iOS7 due to the fact that I don't have enough storage. 3.9 GB are being taken up by "Other" and I don't know how to fix this? I already tried restoring my device and it did nothing.

A restore should resolve.
This indicates corrupt files.

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