I lost contacts, messages, photos as lots of people have....

I see all these posts here at the apple support community but no help from Apple to fix these issues. I have had upgraded before with no issues so I felt this would be the same. To my surprise, everything was missing. Apple, please help us out here. How to restore photos, contacts, etc. There are not backups to restore, they were also deleted. I even tried installing from a passport using older data to no avail. HELP!!!!!

I have done that plenty of times. Nothing there. No back up either. Tried to revert to older version, all written over. Tried to revert from my passport, No luck. Are my files somewhere where I can retrieve them even manually?

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See the what is backed up topic of:
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cuz me too same case I have also I lost all my photos 800pics

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My battery has been acting ridiculous on my phone. It shuts down at random percentages ranging from 60% down. I'll be using it with plenty of battery life left on the meter then I get the ring of death and it'll show a dead battery icon wanting charged. At this point I either have to plug it in or I have discovered I can hold down the home and lock button for a minute and it'll come back on still showing plenty of charge. I've read a lot of people have this issue. I've seen the recommendation of re calibrating the battery by fully draining and charging multiple times. I've done that with no results. I've also tried the recommendation of resetting the phone and doing a full restore which also doesn't work.
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I have just upgraded my iPhone 3 to to the latest 4.0.2 OS. However, in doing so I have lost all my contacts, messages, mail, calendar and notes. How do I get all my lost information back.

Hi,
I Sync'ed the phone before I started. When I initiated the upgrade, it took ~ 2 hours to back up the phone and upgrade the OS. I was confident that if anything went wrong, I would be able to restore to the previous settings. However, the only restore option is to restore to factory settings - there is not option to restore to previous backup, or just restore only the contacts, messages, mail, notes or calendar.
Alternatively, is there any way to see the contents of the contacts, messages, mail, notes and calendar. If I have to, I'll type the important details in again (or go round to Steve Jobs house and ask him to do it for me!).
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Thanks.

Repeated 'ORA-12547: TNS: lost contact' messages after installing Oracle 10

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I had recently tried to install Oracle 8.1.7 on the same box, but abandoned that after deciding that the effort required to link Oracle 8 on RHES3 just wasn't worth it.
I have been told that my previous partial installation of Oracle 8 may be the cause of the problem, and have been advised to uninstall Oracle 8, uninstall Oracle 10g, and reinstall Oracle 10g. I find it hard to believe that it would require such an action to solve this problem. Are there any configuration changes I can make to resolve it?
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Colm.

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2147483648
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4096
[root@awyr ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
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100
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63536
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4091
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data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 63536
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
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Richard

Lost contacts and photos during a backup. Can I retrieve them without a new backup?

I plugged in my husband's phone to add music and it made me update iTunes before doing so. I did and it restored my husband's phone to an old backup from a while ago. He lost all his new contacts and photos, which include our daughter's birth that was this week. I'm so mad right now. Is there any way to recover these without a current backup?

If you had an IMAP mail account then all your emails are stored on the server, so install Thunderbird and create the IMAP mail account to see folders and emails on the server.
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* Backup: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
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* https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

Problems with Contacts.. Syncing lots of people who are not contacts.

I just picked up my white 16gb iPhone and am generally impressed, but I'm having tons of issues with the Exchange contacts sync.
First, it synced a huge number of contacts to my phone, not people that I've added to my local contact list. It appears to be the full set of everyone who's ever sent me e-mail on my exchange server. I work for a very very large company. As a result, any time I do anything on the phone that involves contacts, it screeches to a total halt and becomes unresponsive for a little while. It's painfully slow, on the groups screen, the time between pressing on one of my groups and having the phone actually do something is in the range of 10-15 seconds.
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I went to the iPhone genius bar today with the "large number of contacts crash my Contact, Phone, & Email apps" and they pretty much told me that the iPhone isn't ready for enterprise users with a large number of contacts (in the thousands). He offered to switch out the phone, but conceded that it wasn't the phone, but the way the iPhone works with Exchange -- namely that the Contacts database isn't stored remotely. It appears (to me, anyway) that you have partial data (names) on the device and then when you need to pull actual email, phone numbers, etc. it has to reach out over the network and get that info.
While the app is waiting to pull down x-thousand names to populate the Contacts app, the app (and any application depending on the Contacts app,like phone and email) times-out and quits. Maybe they will move towards the blackberry architecture where contact databases and email are stored on the device, which would greatly speed up response time, and maybe even make a Search command available.
For now, I have a device that is great at telling me about the weather, the stock market and watching YouTube, but can't quite be used to make phone calls, send emails, or look up contacts. Drats!
To their credit, Apple has sent me back to AT&T to seek out another solution. I am sure it'll be solved someday, but not yet. Looking forward to that day...

Alright Heres a scenario that Im sure a lot of people have

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JoeEkrub,
The prices for accidental damage have changed. They are now:
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8GB - $199
16GB - $249
If you send it in, you will get a like-for-like replacement, meaning you will get the same model.
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Jennifer B.

Updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and have now lost all my contacts, messages, photo's etc? HELP!!

Hi guys,
I have just updated my iphone 4 to iOS 5 and have lost everything!
I did a back up prior to the install and have the latest version of iTunes. I completed the install and went to retrieve the back up via a restore, I selected the latest restore, it thinks about it then comes up with the following error message: "File is corrupt or not compatible with this phone"
I was also perviously using Mobile Me for instances like this, though my accont has recently expired and I can no longer access it, all my data was stored on there. Annoying!
Can anyone help? Be a huge help...

If you made a backup in iTunes before upgrading you can access the data with iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor.
Can be downloaded from here: http://supercrazyawesome.com/
This helped me getting my Notes back after the upgrade to iOS 5.

HT201210 i lost data messages / photos and other saved data worth 2 months cause there was some problem when i was updating ios7 how can i recover that?

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unfortunatley i forgot to perform a backup in that time span as well....
is there a way of recovering txt msgs photos and other saved data from a particular span? without backups?

Without a backup there is no way to recover data.
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