IPhone contacts names is gone

After I upgraded my iPhone4 to ios5. My name of my contacts are all gone. Its just plane number stored on my phone. And I have this photo at photo streaming that I dont know, and I lost all my photos in my iPhone.
Have anyone experience this?
We visit the apple store and they said its the first time they encounter such case.

Have you tried restoring your iphone? Plug your iPhone into iTunes, in the left panel under devices right click on your iPhone and select restore from back up

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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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Hi guys.
I have a Skype number and when I receive a phone call on my Skype for Iphone from one of my Iphone contacts, Skype doesn't display the name of the caller. It displays the phone number but not the name of the caller. Of course, the same happens on the Recent tab. The Recent tab doesn't show the contact's name.
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I changed my sim card and now my contact names are gone in iMessage?

So i just unlocked my iPhone and switched the sim card from ATT to another carrier (optus) and wanted to change numbers just because this is a temporary switch.
Now when i go to messages my contacts all appear as phone numbers instead of their names. I still have them in my phone if i go look at the contact/address book but they don't appear in messages.
I want to switch it to names not numbers.
(I still have the original sim and have it backed up to my computer if that helps)

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Feeling really frustrated... I have a. New iPhone 5c and wanted to sync all from my old iPhone 4
I backed up iPhone to iCloud as well as computer . Contacts, messages , music all selected
But now , after I've synced and updated my new , Some Contacts numbers did transfer, others haven't ..others have the phone number, but their contacts details are blank.. Why is this and what can I do to fix.
When iOS. 7 came out it crashed during uploads nd I lost years of contact numbers, photos of holidays , everything
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I updated to iOS4 yesterday and after it was done all my contact names were gone. The numbers were all in there, just no names. I don't use Mobile Me for my contacts.
Checking my iPhone sync settings on my Mac for some reason "sync contacts" with Address Book was no longer checked in iTunes. It looks like it was that way for some time, which is unusual as that's the method I use to backup my contacts. No idea how that got switched, as I wouldn't have changed that. Don't think MobileMe troubleshooting had me turn it off after a Calendar duplication issue. Wouldn't make sense.
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Try a hard reset right now and see if they disappear.
Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds until you see white Apple logo on the screen. Wait for the phone to restart and see if the contacts are fixed.

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