All my contacts gone

Question

Help - I used the 2.0 and created a new exchange push account for my work. Afterwards I noticed my regular contacts in my iphone is gone, all of them. Can I get them back????

Answer 1

Mine disappeared too from Contacts (the screen read No Contacts in light gray font) on an iPhone 3G. Only they still were on the phone because I could still see them through the Phone/Contacts navigation. Also, the phone reported the names when I dialed numbers that I know were in the address book. Finally, while the names were missing from Contacts, they still were visible if I selected Phone/Contacts!
Then later today, the names disappeared from Phone/Contacts as well!
Later I found them! Here's how.
Select Contacts. If no Contacts are showing (only the words "No Contacts") do the following:
- Look at the blue bar at the top of the Contacts Address Book page.
- Does it read "Group Name" or "All Contacts"? If it reads Group Name:
- Select the Groups back arrow (top left).
- Select "All Contacts" (instead of Group Name) which won't be highlighted (this may be an interface problem).
- Back out of this screen by selecting the Home button near the bottom of the iPhone.
- On the Home page, re-select the Contacts button.
- Voila! Your contacts should now be visible (if this was your problem). In my case, I recall playing around with the Group Names button late Tuesday evening. I probably inadvertently left Contacts set to display Group Name instead of All Contacts. Since I had no Groups set up on this iPhone yet, none were visible on that screen and this may have caused to forget to reset the Contacts Address Book to display "All Contacts."
The Contacts