How can I recover my contacts and photos?

Last night I synced my boyfriends iphone4 to my computer. He had no media so basically he just wanted some music on his phone. Everything went smoothly, music, tones & apps all synced successfully. When I gave him his phone he requested that I update his phone to the newest software (ios6) but when I did that an error occurred and the phone went into "standby" mode and i couldnt even turn it on. I disconnected the phone because i had no idea what i did but then reconnected it because i thought it would come back on.. To make a long story short, when the phone turned back on i got a message saying that I had to restore the phone due to the error. Well, I guess i misunderstood what "restore" meant and it was like i had to start from scratch (apple id & password etc) so basically my question is, why when the phone was done restoring did I lose all his personal info? Contacts, photos, calendar dates etc ALL GONE!! And how can I get them back? Also, he now says that he cant access any of his apps like he used to even though theyre all there. It says his password is incorrect but it's exactly the same as before. what's going on? im lost!!! Can someone please please please help me! Im in big trouble! 

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