All my text messages deleted (iOS 4.3.5) randomly, restore from backup didn't work - solution?
My phone is coming to the end of its contract and I've have been having issues with it [won't wake up, sleep/wake button doesn't work unless it's already awake, unrepsonsive and have to restart by holding both buttons to make it work, etc.] but now I've come to text a friend and all of a sudden I have no text message history. All my contacts, everything else is untouched, by 2 years of texts are gone. I restored the iPhone from the last update but it didn't work. I haven't just upgraded to 4.3.5 either, this just randomly happened. Ideas? Solutions?
Hi jimfromDEU,
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