Lost all My contacts using Exchange with Iphone

I no longer use exchange but I do still need all 2000 of my contacts. Well I kept getting a message to sync my phone. I didn't want to. I just wanted the message to go away so I deleted the email account, but the message did not go away. I heard if you do a backup it saves your contacts. So I backed it up and did a restore to see if that would kill the sync message. Well when I did and tried to restore from backup all of my contacts were gone. I am absolutley devastated. Is there anyway to get them back? Are the contacts stored somewhere else. Could I get them back setting up exchange on my phone again. Could they be resynced then or are they just gone?

You may be able to do an over-the-air sync by adding your Exchange account to get all your contacts back.
Most likely the reason that none of your contacts were saved in the backup is because the iPhone contacts was connected with your exchange server, and cannot sync with iTunes when this is happening. To check this, leave the Exchange account enabled, connected your iPhone to your computer and in iTunes go to the info tab and see if you are able to select sync contacts. You you may need to get those contacts off of your computer that is connected to the Exchange server, and bring them over to home computer with a flash drive.
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Re: That garbage is unreadable.
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