HT201656: Check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Learn about Check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Q: Clearing "Other" Memory off iPhone 4
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Sep 19, 2013 10:13 PMby Ocean20,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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Sep 19, 2013 10:14 PMby Kappy,Restore it as New.
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Forgotten Restrictions Passcode Help
You will need to restore your device as New to remove a Restrictions passcode. Go through the normal process to restore your device, but when you see the options to restore as New or from a backup, be sure to choose New.
Also, see iTunes- Restoring iOS software.
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Sep 19, 2013 10:50 PMby Frank Malloy,Probably, this is due to "orphaned" Messages app attachments. When you deleted Messages in a certain 6.0.x release, it didn't delete the attached photos/videos, and left them in limbo and undeletable. They fixed the bug, but those orphaned attachments hang around in your backup data - forever. You cannot delete them from Messages because the attachments are no longer associated with a message. So, your Message list can be zero but still have these attachments which take up space. When you restore from your backup - these attachments get restored to your phone.
Check this: Settings > General > Usage (wait for the STORAGE part to update) and look under Messages. Is it huge?
The only way is to restore without backup as mentioned, or use a third-party application which lets you go in and delete these from your backup file on your computer, then you can restore the backup without the bad attachments. I don't have experience with these backup editors, so you'd need to have some else help here.
Good luck.
