IOS 5 erased all my contacts, is a backup restore possible?

I lost all my contacts, notes, and documents in the apps after upgrad to ios5.....
I need my iso4.3 back, how can i do that.....

Me too. Lost all contacts, phone logs, texts, app folders, preferences. All my music is still there.
I tried to restore from a backup, but get an error every time. It says the backup is corrupted or not compatible with this phone. The oldest backup I can find is from last night before the update.
My iPad updated without any complications.

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I plugged my Iphone into the computer to put my pics on the computer. It went strait to itunes an erased all my contacts and pictures and replaced them with my husbands contacts and photos. Can i get the contacts and photos back?

I plugged my Iphone into the computer to put my pics on the computer. It went strait to itunes an erased all my contacts and pictures and replaced them with my husbands contacts and photos. Can i get the contacts and photos back?

Have you synced your iPhone with iTunes on this computer before? If not, nothing is selected automatically under the various tabs for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Was this the first time your iPhone was connected to iTunes on any computer? If so, the first time an iPhone is connected to iTunes for the first time that is used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or eyeless device to the iPhone or set up the iPhone as a new iPhone. This is not automatic, it must be manually selected.

IOS update erased all of my photos, even in iTunes?!

I am concerned that the latest iOS update erased all of my data on my phone, including every picture and video I ever took of my 2 year old daughter.
I regularly connect my Phone to my computer, so I had imagined that iTunes was backing up my data. But as far as I can tell, this is not true. It looks like it's all gone. My phone has no photos. iTunes has no photos.
Here's what happened:
When I agreed to upgrade the OS, the phone "verified" the update and then told me to connect to iTunes. When I did, iTunes told me that the phone was in "restore" mode, and that I had to restore it to factory settings, which would delete all of my data.
Turning off the phone didn't help, the only was forward was a restore. I was concerned, but assumed that things were backed up on my computer.
Once my phone was "ready to use" everything was gone.
There are three backups of this phone in iTunes: one from a few minutes ago, one from when the iOS update and restore finished, one from 9 months ago, and older ones. There is not one from the backup I thought I was making a couple of days ago. It's all gone.
Note: I have updated iOS many times before, but never before has it erased all of my stuff. Something is different this time.
I do not use iCloud.
I regularly back up my computer to my Time Capsule. Is there maybe some way that I can restore an old backup from that or something?
I'm very upset.
Please help.

My girlfriend just had a similar thing happen. She orginally got her iPhone 5 2 months ago. Sunday morning she clicked the recent update. As it downloaded it prompted her to plug into itunes. When she did it said that the install failed and she would need to restore the phone to continue. Not really know what any of that meant, she restored the phone. After that she had no photos, no contacts, no apps and no calendar.
She is really only concerned about the photos (her sister just had a baby, she took the photos) we took it to the apple store and the guy said there was nothing that can be done. Seriously, no photos could be recovered. were probably talking about 500 mbs of photos.
I checked for the restore files and one said 11/26 a few days before she bought the phone and then 2/3/12 with a time after the wipe happened.
Icloud doesnt have any photos. Is she really out of luck like the Apple store guy said, is there really nothing that can be recovered. I've erased a memory stick before on my camera and I was able to restore all photos, wondering if there is something like this that can be done. Any ideas?

How do you set up iphone 5? everytime i put it into the computer it erases all my contacts how do i stop this and get my contacts back?

how do you set up a iphone 5 everytime i conect it to the computer it erases all my contacts how do i put them back on my phone and stop the computer erasing them again?

Are your contacts not on your computer?

I recently changed my iCloud account because someone stole my last phone and changed all my passwords for both my iCloud and emails account. So when I changed my account I accedently erased all my contacts is there anything I can do? (It wasn't backup)

I recently changed my iCloud account because someone stole my last phone and changed all my passwords for both my iCloud and emails account. So when I changed my account I accedently erased all my contacts is there anything I can do? (It wasn't backup)

I'd say your best bet is to try to regain access to your old account. Call 1-800-MY-APPLE, and ask to talk to the account security team. Hopefully they can verify you are the account owner, and then reset the password for you.

I have just updated to the new iOS 6, and all my contacts have disappeared? Is there a possible solution to get them back?

I've just updated to the new iOS 6 and all my contacts have dissappeared, is there a possible solution to bring them back, I really need them back. Thanks in advance.

You tried clicking on "phone" then "groups" and "Show All Contacts"

HT204053 I somehow erased all my contacts from my IPHONE, how can i export them from icloud to my phone?

I somehow erased all my contacts from my iPhone, how can I export my contacts from my icloud account from my PC?

joephilipose,
If the contacts are still in Address Book on your computer, but just not on the phone, you can tell iTunes to force replace the contacts on your phone with those from your computer. You can do this by going into the Info tab when your iPhone is connected, and checking the Contacts box under the Advanced section at the bottom of the page.
You may also want to backup your Address Book information as well. It's a good idea to make periodic backups of your contact and calendar information in case information accidentally gets deleted or changed. You can find out how to backup your Address Book data here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad961.html
To backup your iCal information, follow the steps in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/3.0/en/9889.html
Hope this helps,
Jennifer B.

Installing iOS 5 erases all previous data

Installation of iOS 5 erased all previous data on my iPad. Help! Prior to iCloud being in the picture, where were all my photos and documents backed up?
I am attempting to locate the files which vanished upon updating to iOS 5 - hundreds of pdf files, thousands of uploaded photos, screen shots, saved photos from web, ALL GONE. So were all my acquired apps, although those have been replaced - now I can begin or attempt to reconstitute the complex folder structure (notes, notes 2, notes 3, etc.) which grew over the last few iOS iterations, from too many apps stuffed into folders with strict limitations on contents. Tedious, but possible. Re all the photos, I'm still looking for clues: Is solid state storage similar to that on disk drives – does deleted information still reside on the drive, just not on the index?
Also, post updating, I am continually being prompted to authorize my computer, even though it is, and my Apple ID is intermittently rejected as if invalid, this is causing syncing challenges.
Thanks.
Weary of chasing side effects of upgrading operating systems.

Same for me, when install was finished all was gone, but strange enough the disk space bar was indicating 14Go other and that was exactly my content "in app" without apps, photos, video and music. So this data was not accessible due to missing apps and all my photo/video/music was gone.
I had exactly the same issue last upgrade, and last time I decided to resync my media content and started to add apps one by one again, and by magic almost all the apps managed to find back their data in the 14Go "other" that was still in the IPad. But I had to redo a lot of work like Icon position, some settings, and some apps didn't restore well. Took me a very long time and effort to get back to a nominal situation.
So this time I deciced instead to click "Restore" before doing any sync and used the backup that was generated automaticly just before the upgrade to 5.0 (so still with version 4 of ths IOS)
The process started, the Ipad rebooted and firmware was then loaded again (still 5.0) and the 14Go data from the backup was reloaded also, and this time after this quite long step, itunes started to restore apps, music, photos and videos one by one ... was quite a very long process but at the end all was perfect, storage was back to 40 Go including my 14Go data and all photos, videos and apps, with all setting perfectly restored.
Hope this help,
Patrick

I see there is another ios update. I have an iPhone 4S. The last time I updated the ios I lost all my contacts, as I had not been using the iCloud as a backup. I am now apprehensive about the latest update. How can I determine if contacts are backed up?

I see there is another ios update. I have an iPhone 4S. The last time I updated the ios I lost all my contacts, as I had not been using the iCloud as a backup. I am now apprehensive about the latest update. How can I determine if contacts are backed up?

You should never lose contacts under any circumstances.
Although contacts are included with the iPhone's backup, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer where such important data should be available with or without an iPhone or any cell phone. Not a good idea to depend on a cell phone for such important data which can be lost or stolen or damaged beyond repair.
In addition, there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air including an iCloud account, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail.
If you are not syncing contacts over the air with an iCloud account and not backing up your iPhone wirelessly with your iCloud account, your iPhone's backup is being updated by iTunes on your computer which is updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
With Windoze, contacts can be synced with Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 along with syncing calendar events, notes, and reminders, or with the address book app used by Outlook Express and by Windows Mail called Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only. With a Mac, contacts can be synced with the Address Book app. This is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
If the supported address book app on your computer is not used and has no contacts available, before the first sync for this data enter one contact in the supported address book app on your computer. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select.

I erased all the contacts, apple ID and icloud account in my old 4s and gave it to someone. However, whatever contact that someone has saved in my old 4s phone has added in my new 5sphone. Does anyone know how to solve this?

I erased all the contacts, apple ID and icloud account in my old 4s and gave it to someone. However, whatever contact that someone has saved in my old 4s phone has added in my new 5s phone. Those are not my contact and I don't want them in my new phone. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Ln the old iPhone, -> What to do before selling or giving away your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Anyway to revert a sync?? just erased all my contacts

1. address book erased all my contact during a 'find duplicates' operation.
2. hoping that the itunes would ask me what to do (which direction to sync) and hoping that i could put the contacts that were still on my phone back onto my laptop, i did a small test sync (only selecting one small group of contacts)
3. utter desolation when i realized itunes did not ask me anything, it just overwrote the deletions to my iphone **except for the group i had selected**
so
my questions are :
1. can i simply 'revert' a sync?
2. is the sync data stored somewhere that i may be able to manually pluck out my contacts?
3. has this happened to anyone else?

diy_neuroscience,
Try reseting only contacts from .Mac.
If you are syncing other data with .Mac it can take a long time, depending on the speed of your internet connection to complete.
If it hangs on just contacts, there may be an issue with the SyncService folder, and I would recomend reading the "swarm of bees" article, and possibly contacting AppleCare or a genius bar. That article is here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301920
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Droid Pro erased all my contacts!

At some point in time over the weekend, my phone has lost all of my contact phone numbers and some people. 90% of my contacts are there and their email/birthdays show but the phone numbers are gone. How do I fix this? all of my text messges are just showing the numbers. I tried to use my backup assistant, but the numbers arent there either....maybe i am doing this wrond. HELP!!!!

elieq21, I'm sorry your phone erased all your contacts. I was unable to locate an issue with the Droid Pro erasing contacts randomly. Ann154 is correct, if your contacts are saved with Google you can import them back to your device. I have listed steps below to export and import your contact to Google contact and back to your phone.
To Import Contacts to your device:
From a computer, launch an Internet browser then navigate to the Gmail website.
Sign in with the Gmail account username and password.
Click Contacts.
Click More actions.
Click Import.
Click Choose File / Browse.
Select the desired .CSV / vCard file then click Choose / Open.
Click Import.
Click OK.
To Export Contacts from your device to Google:
Launch an internet browser then navigate to the Gmail website.
Sign in with the Gmail account username and password.
Click Contacts.
Click More actions.
Click Export.
From Which contacts do you want to export?, select the desired option.
The Group
All Contacts
If Group was selected, then select the desired contact group.
My Contacts
Friends
Family
Coworkers
Starred in Android
Most Contacted
From Which export format?, select the desired export format then click Export.
Google CSV format (for importing into a Google account)
Outlook CSV (for importing into Outlook or another application)
vCard format (for importing into Apple Address Book or other application)

HT201274 So I have tried to update my iPod touch about 5 times now and it still says there is an error. I,ve erased all my settings and attempted to restore it, but it wont let me. I'm ready to throw it away and find a new product.

So I have tried to update my iPod touch about 5 times now and it still says there is an error. I,ve erased all my settings and attempted to restore it, but it wont let me. I'm ready to throw it away and find a new product

Errors when updating leads to corrupt system files and this may be your problem. If you're using windows, connect your device to PC and run any third party app like Syncios. If it detects, you maybe in luck and try to back-up your data if possible. I hope that it won't and if doesn't, there is no other way to recover files. You should be restoring with iTunes and all data will be erased, or else your device may become unusable.

Hello, all of a sudden I fell down my system and completely erased all bookmarks. Your progress with restoration does not work, send me ansver,please

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Did your computer crash or did Firefox crash causing the loss of the bookmarks?
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+crashes

Will Updating my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 Erase my Messages,Contacts & Photos?

Hi, I own a iPhone 4, Well my dad owns an iPhone 4 for 1 year now and iOS 7 Just came out. I am very excited to update my dad's phone to iOS 7 But the only thing i am afraid of is, will his iPhone be fully erased? Will Updating the iPhone wipe the whole phone out? I don't want to mess my dad's phone up because he needs all his data on his phone. My dad has important messages and contacts that he doesn't want erased. He also has photo's that he needs. Is their a way i can retrieve my dad's Photos,Messages and Contacts after Updating to iOS 7, what is the process of updating and retrieving my dad's data from his phone. Someone please reply with a answer!
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Okay, But i will first Backup with iCloud then i will backup my iPhone to itunes wirely and then download the update and then when i update the iphone througgh itunes i will choose restore frm backup after updating to ios 7 and i will choose my latest backup, is that right? But why is it, the last time i did it, i backed up my iphone and then restored the backup, everythign was restored bt not the contacts and my messages?

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