Accidentally lost my photos/videos on iPhone 5. Is recovery possible?

Today I was all excited to finally be able to connect my new iPhone 5 to iTunes and sync the information from my old 3GS phone. Unfortuantely I did something wrong and lost the photos and videos (which I care about most). I was able to recover the photos through photostream and 1 video (that I sent to a relative). Is there anyway to recover the other videos? The videos are from Christmas.

If you just resynced, unfortuntately those are gone. If they're no longer in your photo album on your phone, they're gone. Sorry to hear if that's the case, Ryan.

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If you restored the iPhone then the photos are gone. Sorry.
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Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
If you want to view Photo Stream photos on a Windows computer you will first need the iCloud Control Panel installed. Once installed, there will be an iCloud Photos location selected on your computer. Please review the following article as a reference.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13693
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Can you help me to update my phone settings..
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Hi,
Writing from France so sorry for my poor english.
I have an issue since a few wekks to receive properly photos or videos sent from Iphones (ly wife's or mine).
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I cut the mail but it is quite long.
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I created a rule to move automatically all mails received in IMAP GMAIL folder "TO DO" I created.
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Best regards.
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