I plug my iphone 4s to my computer and i lost my contact

i plug my iphone 4s to my computer and i lost my contact and my photo, i dont open itunes so why does my phone change to the settings of my boyfriend 3gs iphone?????

See either http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538 (windows) or http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591 (mac).

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When i plug my iphone 4s into my computer and connect to itunes to download more music to my phone, it says my phone cant be recognized and to restore to factory setting. how can i do this without losing all of my contacts and music and everything?

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See if this helps: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/

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How do i retrieve my pictures?????

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Were these pictures from the camera roll or from photo stream.
When you restore from back up, the process will restore the OS and some initial data, it will then restart and allow you to use your device while the remaining data is downloaded and restored in the background. have you allowed enough time for this to complete.
Photostream in the cloud only keeps photos from the last 30 days (subject to a 1,000 photo limit). When photostream syncs the photos to your device they will stay there (subject to a 1,000 photo limit) until deleted, which means you may well have more photos in your photostream album on your device than there are in photostream in the cloud.
The consequence of this is that if you turn photostream off and on again on your device (or enable it for the first time), it will only be populated with photos from the last 30 days, which may not be all the photos that were previously in the photostream album on that device.

I plugged my iphone 4s into my computer and it backed up by itself,i know have everything from my old phone on my new one how do i get everything back?

please help!

I completely understand what you are trying to say. Regardless of what YOU are saying are facts, its my device. YOU don't know what glitches, issues or age defined viruses may take place on my device. Anything is possible. YOU may think you're an expert but i'm positive that you haven't seen everything. On the other hand I full-heartedly appreciate your help in telling me I can never get my data back. Im sure you know a lot about apple and can help many others that need help (no sarcasm at all). I hope there aren' any hard feeling from this small quarrel. Once again thank you for answering to my statements in such a short time. Have a good night!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hi Celia51510,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
I can't tell from your post if you are using a Windows or a Mac Computer.
Try deleting the iTunes application and redownloading the version you need below:
iTunes 11.1 Download for Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1614
iTunes 11.1 for Windows (64-bit)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1615
Cheers,
- Judy

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If no change after restoring your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from the iPhone's backup, your iPhone has a problem. Call AppleCare or make an appointment at an Apple store if available.

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Thanks,
patti

If you're in recovery mode, all data is ALREADY lost. You've no choice but to restore.

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Hello People!
I'm getting an error message when I plug my iPhone 4 into my computer. It says, "This iPhone cannot be used because the Apple Moblie Device Service has not been started." What does this mean? I've never had this error before. It's also giving the same message with my iPod touch. Please help!
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You can easily check whether you've the Apple Mobile Device in your computer.
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