After clicking "restore" in iTunes, all of my contacts were erased.

After clicking "restore" in iTunes, all of my contacts were erased. All of my text messages and apps were left alone though. Is there any way I can get them all back?

When restoring an iPhone with iTunes, the iPhone is completely erased. The first step is updating the iPhone's backup with a prompt to update the backup or skip the update. Contacts are included with the backup but so is a significant amount of other data. Sounds like there is a problem with the backup in regards to the contact info.
Not a good idea to depend on an iPhone or any cell phone alone for such important data which can be lost or stolen. Contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer and there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air. Apple's iCloud account is one, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail are others.

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I just updated my iphone to ios7 and I keep getting stuck at the 'Set up your iPhone' screen. I click 'Restore from Itunes Backup', but it only ends up restarting after restoring and fails to get past the 'Set up your iPhone' screen. Any ideas?

Normally, I would suggest restoring the iPad and uninstall and reinstall iTunes but you have done both of those things - more times than you ever imagined!
Have you thought about turning auto syncing off?
Without connecting your iPad to your laptop, start iTunes. Click on Edit. Click on Preferences. Click on Devices. Check the box next to "Prevent your iPod etc. from automatically syncing." Click OK.
If you do this you can backup the iPad right away before it syncs. You may want to go into all of the iTunes tabs and just make sure that all of the current content on the iPad is selected to sync before you actually do sync.
This doesn't solve the problem, but it would prevent the automatic sync and erasing content. Hopefully, in the next few days- when iOS 5 is released - you will also be relieved of this weird iPad behavior - since the iOS devices are supposed to become PC free.
BTW - and this is no excuse for what you are experiencing, but I have found that some of the game apps that I had on my iPad turned out to be quite troublesome and after I removed them, my problems went away. I know that is almost sacrilege with regard to the Angry Birds addiction .... But I'm just saying ...

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It states an unknown error occurred (1) and shows a tab saying, more information. But despite restarting both my mac and iPod.....it still won't work and just has an apple icon on the iPod......

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This link provides the data included with your iPhone's backup.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
The backup does not include any iTunes content - music, podcasts, video, or 3rd party apps. All iTunes content including 3rd party apps should be in your iTunes library on your computer. After downloading/installing an app with your iPhone, the app should be transferred to your iTunes library on your computer the first time you sync your iPhone with iTunes after doing so.
You can re-download an app with iTunes on your computer and you won't be charged again for a purchased app as long as you use the same iTunes account to re-download the app that was used to purchase the app originally.

My Iphone 3g 4.2.1 stuck in a apple logo and loading circle after a restore from itunes 10.4.

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I too am having exactly the same problem, I can't even get to do a restore. Please can someone help?

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He needs to restore his phone using the computer he normally syncs with. He also needs to pay more attention to the prompts he gets before he just clicks on "OK"...
There is no way to "undo" this. Sounds like he plugged it into a computer he'd never synced with before and it offered to restore from an existing backup... yours.

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Sync them back to the device from the supported application on the computer that you are using. That would be either Address Book, Windows Contacts, Outlook, iCloud or other cloud service. That is done either through iTunes, or iCloud.

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I think those contacts still in iphone database. So you can back up you iphone with itunes to get iphone database off your iphone. Then access the SQLite batabse.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
All data included with the backup is stored in a SQLite database format with the data within various folders not easily accessible.There are some 3rd party utilities that provide for extracting select data from an iPhone's backup and iphone database such as this one.
http://www.datarecoveryforiphone.com/

After I installed the new OS, all of my contacts were deleted!

All of my contacts were gone.
All of my stored texts.
All of my stored voice mails.
And my phone was updated to 4G from 3G.
There was no warning that this would happen. Can anyone help?
Retrieving my contacts is the most troublesome part of this! I went into the AT/T store, and they said that Icloud was turned off on my phone, and I would need to call Apple directly. HELP!
Thanks.

Again, we took it to an AT/T store...which means that they checked our backup/ICloud...they said it had been turned off. This is so frustrating.
Any advice besides calling Apple?

My battery died and when it was charged all my contacts were erased, what happened and how do I retrieve them?

My battery died and when it was charged all my contacts were erased, what happened and how do I retrieve them?

look for icloud back up,
go to Settings
mail, contacts,
then
icloud
then move the button to show contacts on your phone

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I have a problem with my ipod that's a bit complicated and can anyone just help? See what happened was, my ipod was in a scan mode, so my cousin tells me. After the battery died, I recharged it, hoping it would stop but it didn't. The next day, all the songs in my ipod are gone and now, I downloaded the ipod updater and plugged in my ipod and clicked restore, and now I don't know if it's ok now. It still says Do Not Disconnect. Should I or shouldn't I? what the **** is up?

It could probably be in the Hard Drive mode. If its not, I would recommend resetting.
Turn on hold, then turn off. Then hold Menu, and the center button at the same time for about 6 seconds, should make the apple logo show and it should fix it.

After latest update of Itunes - all music is scrambled

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for any help with this problem. Everything was fine until d/l.

SAME HERE!
I just created a New List in my iTunes 8.0.2, and noticed the same Columns Width Issue, in List View and Cover Flow View:
When I Controll-clicked on any Column, and chose Auto Size All Columns, it made the Name Column width more narrow then needed to display it's full content.
I Controll-clicked on the Name Column, and chose Auto Size Column. It didn't make it wider to extend its width to the the width of the longest Name in that Playlist.
I tried different Playlists, and another Library and it was the same issue!
It did work in Music and Podcasts, but not in Videos and Audio Books. Unchecking Columns didn't help.
Repairing Permissions, and Restarting iTunes and Restarting my Powerbook G4 didn't help either...
I am sending this bug report to Apple
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
and hope others will do also, if they encounter the same problem.
And while at it, please join me in asking Apple to make Lyrics Field SEARCHABLE! What an underutilized opportunity that Lyrics Field is. I can store my notes in there, and have clickable web links, if they are in the same format as the one above, in this post. And while at it, make it Searchable on iPhones/iPods, or at least visible!
Powerbook G4 17', 1.67, 10.4.11, 2GB RAM, all latest Software Updates

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I request to unlock my iPhone from AT&T they send my e-mail that to plug my iPhone in to iTunes and I did the process after the restore my will not unlock.

Check the status of unlock on-line.
https://www.att.com/deviceunlockstatus/client/en_US/?
Bring to their notice.

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i forgot my passcode and even after doing a restore in itunes phone still says disabled Help

You need to restore via recovery mode as shown in the article below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

All of my contacts were deleted for no reason. Is there any way to restore them?

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I did not have my contacts sync'd to my iTunes, or iCloud, or any other storage system.
Interestingly, when I do a "left-swipe search", and type in a contact's name e.g. Joe Smith, my phone is able to show me which text-message conversations were with Joe Smith, and other information about this contact. But that's the only memory my phone has of its lost contacts.
Is there any way to restore lost contacts without external storage / syncing ??
Thanks

I think those contacts still in iphone database. So you can back up you iphone with itunes to get iphone database off your iphone. Then access the SQLite batabse.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
All data included with the backup is stored in a SQLite database format with the data within various folders not easily accessible.There are some 3rd party utilities that provide for extracting select data from an iPhone's backup and iphone database such as this one.
http://www.datarecoveryforiphone.com/

After clicking "restore" in iTunes, all of my contacts were erased.

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