Iphone 4 Lost lot of photos.

Hi,
I have IPhone 4. A couple of days back I tried to open the camera and all of a sudden my iphone started rebuilding the library. Afterwards when I checked, I had lost a lot of photos. Unfortunately I had not backed up on my system. Can someone please tell me if those photos can be recovered?
Thanks.

If you had not backed them up or extracted them to your computer already, they are most likely gone. You can try a re-set (hold power and home until you see the Apple logo), but if they don't show up afterward, they are gone.

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