Contact list deleted

My iPhone has randomly deleted my contacts list. I have not updated to OS6 and wasn't fiddling with any of the iCloud options. I went through and manually redid my contacts list and then it was deleted again. What is the problem? Will it stop if I update to OS6?

Actually, I've had the same thing happen to me with an iPhone 4S...went to make a call...phone froze...power cycled it...all contacts gone.
I can tell you, from personal experience, unless your contacts are stored in a supported application or a cloud service, that you can use to restore to your phone, they are gone.

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Read this too:
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As with the Mail app on a Mac, the iPhone's Mail app stores all email recipients in a list of previous recipients which is separate from the address book or contacts. The email address autofill feature when addressing an message pulls from Contacts and from the list of previous recipients.
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Try logging into your Yahoo account from a computer, search out the contact you are trying to delete and manually correct or delete the bad contact.
The bad information might be hidden as a second address or other contact information (or misspelled) and not be showing up on the iphone but will pull up the address anyway.
I had one old address in a contact that kept pulling up each time i tried to email him. The new address was there, but the old address was what the phone kept showing. When I edited the contact info from my computer the old address went away, and the new address started poping up.

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"All from My Mac" - This is my new list and constitutes around 80% of my contacts
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The end result that I am looking for, is a complete list of ALL of my contacts synced with my computer in Outlook, and to be able to delete my old work contact list!
Please help (you bunch of legends).
Dave

Launch iTunes on your computer.
From the menu bar click iTunes > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Click Reset warnings and Reset cache
Click OK.
Restart your computer, launch iTunes.
Click Store > Check for Available Downloads...

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