Loss my contacts, photos while I updating ios5

I lost my contacts on my iphone 4, while I update ios 5. how to I recover it. I recover my apps but not contacts. HELP!

Ok, I'm not sure if the specifics of your problem are similar to mine but I was finally able to get my contacts on my phone this afternoon. I had a 3GS that I'm giving to my daughter to use as an iPod which I backed up Thursday knowing I'd get the 4S in the mail the next day. At that time I also updated my iTunes and updated to iOS5. So going into the 4S I thought I had done the "right" things but I'm not sure if it was my mistake or if its a problem with the technology.
Thursday--Updated 3GS to iOS5, iTunes and backed up the 3gs.
Friday--Got the 4S, system was busy so I went to the ATT store and had them activate it. When I got home I hooked up the 4S and got the message to register as a new iPhone then got the message to restore from backup. It went through the whole thing and then gave me a message that it couldn't complete it because that backup was not compatible with the iPhone 4S. I checked and nothing was on the new phone, just my name and my phone number. Hooked up the 3GS because I thought that the backup maybe didn't finalize so I was going to back it up again since everything I needed was still on that phone. That was a mistake, I accidentally reformatted that and now I had NO information on either phone.
Saturday--Searched online and tried numerous things to no avail. I also created an account for the Cloud so I could store contact info that way. I had all my contacts in Outlook (it syncs to Outlook but I've never used it) so I thought I could maybe get them on the Cloud somehow or re-sync the 3GS to get them on there and then back it up again. After that I did LOTS of other things and got to the point where nothing was on the Cloud and my 3GS was able to accept the sync with Outlook. I read something in the forums about messing around with the Cloud and that was finally what worked. In the 3GS, I went to settings and on the Cloud section I turned off the Cloud for mail, contacts, calendars and notes because those were most important to me). Nothing showed up on the 3GS or on the Cloud and I left the settings with those 4 categories set for "no". The 4S was hooked up to the computer and I did the same thing in the settings menu and nothing showed up on either phone or the Cloud. I did it one more time with the 3GS and my contacts were restored! I also left those settings as "no" for the 4S so when I got the info back on the 3GS I immediately changed the settings on the 4S to "yes" and ALL my contacts were there. My voicemail gretting, saved voicemails as well as the call history were all there!
Not sure if that will work for your situation but hopefully someone will see this by Googling and get their problem fixed.

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I have updated my iphone 3gs to ios6 because many new app required io5 or ios6.
I back it up but after the update the backups are gone.
I searched on my computer with files names, etc, but everything is GONE, pictures, contacts, apps, messages, nothing. I have a brand new iphone with io6 (will count for the great statistics of apple) but as customer I feel ready to something else (non apple) if I do not manage to get back all I had on my iphone.
I looked in other threads but their solutions did not work for me.
Hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance!

All contact information from your iphone is stored in you itunes backup.. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise either has not had the benefit of experience, or is trying to coerce you into using the cloud..
You can pay $40 to $100 for a program that can acces the contact info..
or you can use freeware to extract the backup , browse it for the contact information and convert it into a document which you can then open and manually copy your contacts from..
Even if you have a newer backup on your computer, the old information may still be in there..
So far as your apps, if you did not use the "transfer purchases" option when backing up, your lost apps are lost and you will have to again download them from the app store.. in the future, use the "transfer purchases" option and ALL your apps will be on your backup..
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I recently joined a company who has Lync 2013, Exchange 2010 and AD is at a 2003 functional level. We are experiencing issues where Lync photos are not updating from AD correctly. I have checked the pre-reqs; Replicate this attribute to the Global
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do not even see it loaded in my client yet. I've completly dumped my local Lync cache but no change. Is there a specific Lync Server service that handles retrieving/pushing photos to the Lync clients?

Thank you so much for your reply, it was very helpful in understanding how the service is suppose to work however I have still not been able to correct the issue.
What I have found by using your article may have narrowed down the scope of the problem. I was able to find that on our Lync file store, the cached contacts/photos are being updated daily (as expected) and actually contain the correct photos. I confirmed
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We are planning to upgrade Exchange from 2010 to 2013 and I hoping that leveraging the HiDef photo capabilities for Lync 2013 with Exchange 2013 may fix this issue. What do you guys think?
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Did you do a backup of your phone or have a backup prior to doing the update? If you have one then restore your phone to that backup http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766 . IF you don't then all your pics/texts are gone.
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Hello...heres the short version:
I have a widget of a contact...and my contacts are sync'ing with Facebook...When my contact updates their photo on Facebook; my Contact App updates; but my widget does not.
Heres the longer version:
Okay I know there are two ways to create a widget/contact. For instance....lets say you have a Contact named John Smith...lets say you talk to him more than anyone so you want a Fast Shortcut....and John Smith has a full fledged Facebook Profile. John Smith has his name, phone numbers, address, and more. So you want a quick and easy way to get access to John Smith; right?
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Now you could just remove this shortcut and re add it but what if you were accustomed to previous cell phones that automatically updated the photo? This is where I am landing...I'm here asking if the Galaxy S4 has this feature?
Ahhh dont forget theres another option to go by......
So remember I said the common way of adding the shortcut was going thru Widgets? Well theres 1 more way of adding a contact to your home screen....and that is...going into your contacts...find the one you want...John Smith...Hold down on the screen til a menu appears and if you scroll to bottom (Galaxy S4) theres an option that says "Add shortcut to Home Screen". And voila...theres John Smith on your homescreen...His photo is the Icon/App that again you have easy/quick access to all the numbers he published...his Map (Address) and a quick link to Facebook + others if he has it....
But again when John Smith updates his Facebook Profile pic....and you know cause you just exited it...You re sync' under Settings and again while it reflected on your Contact App...it still didnt affect your Shortcut!
So my previous Cell phone was a Motorola Droid Razr (1st Edition)....my droid razr did have that feature...when someone changed their profile pic it would reflect the widget too.
The Galaxy S4 (for me) doesnt do that....my Contact Photo still changes when I manually perform a Sync and it shows up in the Contact App, but it doenst reflect the Widget....is this natural for Samsung? Or is my Device not working correctly?
Thanks

Heres an update:
Okay whether you use the Widget to add a contact to your homescreen
Or you go into contacts; find your contact and hold down to select menu that says "add shortcut"
Either way....if they have a photo it will product a photo icon on your homescreen.
Everyone knows this....however what I did find out is that when a person has a Facebook linked with that contact and they update a photo; when you click that Shortcut their updated photo will appear in that small window of theirs...however it wont update your shortcut you created....does that make sense?
As to why? I dont know

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