Just did a restore but only 30 of my 250ish apps restored! PLEASE HELP!

Question

Following the most recent ios version update, my iPhone 5 completely crapped out and had that little usb symbol on the screen.  I called Apple...they walked me through transferring all my almost 3000 photos/videos to my computer (obviously not able to do through iTunes/iCloud when my phone wasn't functioning).  I asked if everything else (about 250 apps...no music) would be in the most recent cloud backup which was only a couple hours before the phone crapped out.  They said yes.  I did the restore and only about 30 of my 250ish apps restored!  I never saw all my apps in my iTunes for some reason and all the apps that I can see in my iTunes have been restored.  I wasn't at capacity for iCloud storage either because it happened a couple months ago and I bought more storage space.  I've only been an iPhone user since Dec 2012 so PLEASE HELP if you can and let me know if there is anymore inof you need from me to help me troubleshoot.
PS=I use a good 30-40 of those apps while I'm running experiential marketing campaigns in the field...one of which is a HUGE campaign I'm managing starting tomorrow.  I'm toally FREAKING out right now with my apps not all restored even though the restore is complete.
PLEASE HELP
-super grateful in advance Julia

Answer 1

If you desire to have everything that is currently on the device safe and available to restore, don't just sync, backup the device.  A backup via iTunes will sync and transfer iTunes purchases to iTunes on the computer.
Also, copy any pictures taken with the device off to the computer for safekeeping.
Hopefully contacts are already synced with a supported application on the computer or a cloud service, if not, set that up before restoring.