IPhone 4 contact names suddenly disappeared

I'm on an iPhone 4 and I'm running iOS 5.1.1
After texting someone, all of my contacts suddenly disappeared. I have turned my iPhone on and off but I am nervous to sync with iTunes because again all the contact names are gone.

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Pop your SIM out, clean it and reinsert.
Reset your network settings.
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If with an Apple iCloud account, after confirming your iCloud online contacts are correct by logging in with your iCloud account with a browser on your computer, on your iPhone go to Settings > iCloud. Turn Contacts off for over the air syncing. If provided a prompt to save contacts locally on your iPhone, decline.
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Open iTunes and plug your iPhone into the computer but cancel the sync! very important. Then click on your iPhone in the left box, then click the info tab, scroll to the bottom of the window to the advance section and select contacts in the check box. Read the note under this section it will tell you that information on this iPhone will be replace with the information on this computer. Then put your daughter on time out! LOL...

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I've had issues before with upgrades and now I was skeptical of doing the latest upgrade.
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Anyone know a work around or must I wait for the next "upgrade/fix"?
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3. Connect the external hard drive to your mac (FW or USB).
4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/) to clone your internal drive to the external drive.
5. Take the new hard drive out of the external enclosure.
5. Open your computer, pull the hard drive out of your Mac.
6. Put the new hard drive into your mac. Close it up. Turn it on. It should boot right up.
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Fortunately, even though I was traveling, I had my Powerbook so was able to resynch successfully. This occurrence really bothered me, as I don't always travel with my computer. Has anybody heard of this happening, and are there any solutions or precautions if you don't have your backup computer nearby? I tried resetting the iPhone but that didn't help. All other data on the iPhone was intact and didn't disappear, just the Contacts.

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I have deleted sync history as some have recommended, and I restored my phone, neither worked. I DID let it go to the backup, so I suppose the backup is corrupted as well. Only option left is to delete the backup and do a restore, but then I'll lose my notes since they don't sync.
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m_saadkhan wrote:
The problem is originated from apple itself and should be resolved by apple as well. Is it too much to ask?
I would like to try and put into perspective this statement you've made about 'Apple'., Your contacts were at a point in time on your 'Apple' iphone. That is a given as you would not now be asking about why they have disappeared. To say that at a given point and time they were there and now they are not and THEN to blame apple for this inconsistency is for me at least just a bit much.
So now after me expressing my opinion on your comments lets see if we can't put together some trouble shooting to see if we can't get to your contacts.
IF your contacts were saved to icloud they are still in the icloud only gone from your device. Please read this article about how to use icloud and how to get icloud to send your contacts back to your phone in which they once resided.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3998
Please read this article about how to use icloud when storing contacts.
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