Help?? Deleted all my contacts while syncing iphone 4 to macbook

Is there anyway to retrieve contacts and information on 'notes'? I was syncing my phone and accidently hit restore to backup phone of my mother's phone which for some reason had been saved when I had downloaded pics from her phone a couple years ago. Now all of my contacts have been deleted along with notes under 'notes' icon for my mother's contacts and her notes:(

DogDeadByRaven wrote:
All and all my iphone is worthless. I made 3 backups over the last few months of my phone. Well my phone kept closing out of every application so I turned it off and back on, Well all my contacts are now gone.
The backup has never included contacts.
Contacts are designed to be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
If you have chosen to not use the device as designed and lost data, that is unfortunate but ultimately your fault.
DogDeadByRaven wrote:
Android does not have any of these short comings. Back to Android it is.
You are right, Android has it's own set of short comings, no OS is perfect.
Pick the one that works for you and has the least amount of annoying issues... no one here really cares which way you go.

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I just created an iCloud account to see what it is and to help me store all my information and stuff. I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 4s. On my phone, I clicked sync everything on my computer to the icloud, and iCloud put all my contacts from my computer onto my phone. I realized that these were really old and never used contacts, so I decided I didn't want contacts to be synched using the iCloud. I turned off the button in my iPhone settings that synched contacts with my phone, and an option appeared: "Keep on My iPhone" or "Delete from My iPhone." I thought this just meant if I want to keep on my phone the contacts taht were put there from my computer, or to remove the contacts from my phone that were just put there. I clicked delete from my iphone, and now suddenly every contact on my phone, regardless of if they were already on there or if they were just put there from my computer via iCloud, was gone.
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Thanks, yeah I called Apple Customer Services and the guy said that the only thing I can do is restore my phone from my latest iTunes backup.
The screen I got when this debacle happened literally said: "What would you like to do with the previously synched iCloud contacts on your iPhone?" It's so poorly worded, I thought it was just referring to the contacts that were just put on my phone from my computer, hense the "previously synched iCloud contacts" but when I was on the phone with the guy he was saying that I misunderstood the screen.
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I sync my iphone with my computer at work and at home. I now have over a thousand contacts and many are duplicates (like the same name 10 times)and I would like to erase all the contacts in one action and resync with only my home computer. My "personal group" is fine but "all contacts" group is where the problem is. I use Outlook for contact management but is there another contact manager application that works better?

If you've still not found the command then,
Connect your ipnhone --> Open iTunes -->
Under Devices on the left bar of iTunes click on your iphone -->
Now click on the Tab named Info -->Scroll down to Advanced Section -->
Click the checkbox next to Contacts under the ehading Replace information on this phone -->
Now click apply or sync.
(Do not forget to make sure that it synchronizes after applying this setting)

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Hello Everyone,
Following are the seemingly essential details in regards to this discussion :
iPhone Model = 4
Purchase Date = 05.Jan.2011
Initial Activation Remark = I used my gmail email account to add contacts initially. But phone always failed to sync (back) with gmail after the initial setup. As in if I make any changes in the iPhone’s Contact List, it won’t automatically be saved to my gmail account. But I thought to keep a full phone back up on my MacBook Pro will be safer option as well.
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>>>[It went "On" Automatically when I touched to read the details, and could not stop once it got initiated - Actually I wanted to wait until some reviews were out. ****.]
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Yes, I did.
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Hello Everyone,
Following are the seemingly essential details in regards to this discussion :
iPhone Model = 4
Purchase Date = 06.Jan.2011
Initial Activation Remark = I used my gmail email account to add contacts initially. But phone always failed to sync (back) with gmail after the initial setup. As in if I make any changes in the iPhone’s Contact List, it won’t automatically be saved to my gmail account. But I thought to keep a full phone back up on my MacBook Pro will be safer option as well.
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Problem = iOS 7 update deleted all the Contacts that were originally saved on the iPhone.
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Could anyone please help me to get my contacts back? I will be eternally grateful.
I still got the Full iPhone Backup on my MacBook Pro that I did just before the update.
Please help. Thank you!

Yes, I did.
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