IPhone 4s lost contacts & won't restore

I Recently lost all my contacts on my 4s & have tried 5 times to restore it but it continues to lock up.
Last night I was able to retrieve some thru a partial restore ( locked up again so I rebooted the iPhone)
to to find most contacts. Then not 5 mins later they where gone again just by hitting any key. I've tried
sync again with no luck. Also tried icloud backup but no luck & it only has some of my contacts which
doesnt make much sense. I also removed the SIM card & put it back in.
I tried turning off/on contacts button that Didn't work either. Can anyone help or is this just a complete
loss! Thx 4 reading

You can try iPhone Data Recovery. You are provided three ways to restore contacts on iPhone, which are recovering them directly on iPhone, from an iPhone backup,and from iCloud backup files.What you have to do is very simple.
Step 1.Install iPhone Data Recovery and connect your iPhone to your computer.
Step 2. Choose a suitable mode to continue
You can choose "Recover from iOS Device", "Recover Deleted contacts from iTunes" or "Restore Contacts from iCloud". You can choose a favorable mode to continue the progress.
Step 3. Click "Scan" your iPhone
Step 4. Preview the contacts and recover deleted them from iPhone
I believe you can retrieve your lost contacts.

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The last time I backed my phone up, my contacts disappeard. So I went back in and "restored from backup." When the restore job finished, I opened up my "recent calls" and the names of my recent callers appeared for about 30 seconds and then they turned back into phone numbers. No contacts appear in my contact list.
I called apple-care and all they're interested in is trying to get me to give them money.
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6. Turn off airplane mode (this will delete the contacts as said above but we have a backup.)
7. Open the e-mail and click on the attachment. Follow the short steps and all your contacts will re-populate.
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Hello,
So I've recently joined the dataphone community with an iPhone 4. I have been enjoying the phone and learning more about how it works every day, but this weekend, something happened and I'm not sure how, when, or why, and I was wondering if anyone could help me. I only fully realized what happened when my wife called me and it didn't show her name, just her number. Then I checked, and I only had one contact, which I had added the day before. I had noticed that it didn't show any contacts the day before, but I thought I must not have been looking at it right or something, and didn't think anything of it.
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It seems that only my contacts have been cleared, nothing else. My Recent calls, favorites, etc. all retain their numbers, but the contacts database is empty, so there are no names associated with them. The only other thing I saw that was reset were some of my Mail settings (namely default account).
Other than that, nothing seems to have changed. It may have been as early as 3 days ago, to as late as yesterday. Not sure when exactly.
From other threads I've read, it may have to do with syncing, but here I am confused, because I have not done any syncing or updating of the OS or anything. Maybe I updated an app, but I've done that many times without any issues. In fact, I have been intending to learn about syncing, but have not done so yet, thinking that that was only necessary for infrequent, catastrophic problems. I did read something about it automatically syncing with the computer whenever you plug it in to charge? I've done that several times, but never had any issues until now. I also don't use iTunes. In fact, it isn't even installed on our PC, which is what I use most of the time. I have not plugged it into our mac (which does have a version of iTunes on it) recently. It is possible that I plugged it into the computer in the last 3 days, but I don't recall having done so. I've been charging it via the wall jack.
Also, I do not have an "Import from SIM" option in my Settings for "Mail, Contacts, Calendar", which I have heard is supposed to fix the problem. Nor do I have a MobileMe account.
This has totally caught me off-guard, and I'd like any feedback. What could have happened in the absence of a sync or update? Was it automatically updated, and automatically set to delete my contacts without warning? I am using iOS 4.2.6
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