Lost contacts when restoring new phone with old phones back up?

I have just bought a new lap top and I have transferred all my files over to it. I backed up my I phone 3gs and then restored my new I phone 4gs with the back up. Everything went well except my contacts and apps are not on my new 4gs? Mail settings, old text messages pictures etc all there? Where can I find them?
The second problem I had is I downloaded the latest software on my I phone 4 it has lost all my contacts after finishing the download? Where have they gone?

If your contacts are still on your 3GS download the free app My Contacts backup on your 3GS. It will back up your contacts and an email attachment. Send this email to yourself and open it on your 4S. Tap the attachment to import your contacts to your 4S. Don't know what to tell you about your iPhone 4; your contacts there are probably gone. If they are the same as the ones on your 3GS, open the same email and import your contacts on your iPhone 4.

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If your contacts are still on your 3GS download the free app My Contacts backup on your 3GS. It will back up your contacts and an email attachment. Send this email to yourself and open it on your 4S. Tap the attachment to import your contacts to your 4S. Don't know what to tell you about your iPhone 4; your contacts there are probably gone. If they are the same as the ones on your 3GS, open the same email and import your contacts on your iPhone 4.

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When a contact gets a new phone number, I delete the old and enter the new. Then when I text or call the old number shows up as a selection yet it's no longer under the contacts info.

When a contact gets a new phone number, I delete the old number and enter the new number. When I try to text or call, both the old a new numbers. One up as a selection choice, even though the old number is gone from the contact.

That's normal behavior as the old one will remain in the memory cache for a while until it's eventually overwritten. If it's particularly bothersome to you, you can restore your phone as NEW and this will empty the cache.

I just bought a new iPhone and accidentally backed it up with my old iPhone backup, I do not want this. I lost everything on my new phone and I need it back. PLEASE HELP! This includes pictures and texts, etc.

I just bought a new iPhone and accidentally backed it up with my old iPhone backup, I do not want this. I lost everything on my new phone and I need it back. PLEASE HELP! This includes pictures and texts, etc.

So just to be clear, when you say "just bought" how long ago was that? Is it on this new iPhone that you had pictures, texts, etc that you want? Were you backing up to iCloud or onto iTunes?
This may not help for everything but if you go to iCloud.com and log in, are you able to find your pictures there?

I have an iPhone 4 that i was trying to fix and now it will not turn on at all is there anyway that i can access all my pictures and contacts from my new phone or pc? It is also on the same apple id, but i dont know if that would help with anything.

I have an iPhone 4 thats i was trying to fix and now it will not turn on at all is there anyway that i can access my pictures and contacts from my new phone or pc? Aslo the are both on the same apple id but i dont know if that would help or not.

Contacts are designed to be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
Pictures taken with the device are designed to regularly be copied off the device to a computer as would be done with any digital camera.
If you have failed to use the device as designed it may be too late to recovery anything.
Is the device regularly backed up to a computer via iTunes? If so, the most recent backup (when restored to a replacement iOS device) should contain all contacts and pictures as of when the backup was created.

Trying to restore new phone with backup from previous. itunes can not finish due to "unable to load SyncUICoreLocalized.dll" what do i do now?

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HT1245 Help me please..I lost all my contacts when i sync. it with google contacts ..they completely gone from iphone and my gmail account ..how can i get them back? please help

Help me please..I lost all my contacts when i sync. it with google contacts ..they completely gone from iphone and my gmail account ..how can i get them back? please help

Its a easy fix,it will take too much time to type out all of the steps,
Check your email account. see if they are their, You can then import them on your DAV card, The best thing to is add them to icoud then they will be safe.
Apple support can talk you through it.

Id My old Verizon phone did not have a cloud how can i transfer My contacts to My new phone?

Id My old Verizon phone did not have a cloud how can i transfer My contacts to My new phone?

What phones do you have (old and new?) If your old phone was backed up using Verizon's Backup assistant, the new phone should pick up those contacts, as the Verizon cloud has replaced Backup Assistant, or ratherm BUA has been "absorbed" by the Cloud.
Knowing which phones you are using will help us to give more specific information for transferring the contacts.

HT4759 Hi iv added iCloud to my iPhone 5 and doing so I've managed to wipe all contacts photos and now can't use IMessage, I went to backup and chose the wrong backup date, please can someone help me restore my phone back to how it was before I added iClo

Hi iv added iCloud to my iphone5 and by doing so I've now lost all contacts, photos and also my iMessage please can someone help me to restore my phone back to how it was before doing this? I went to backup and chose wrong backup date and I'm now stuck. This is driving me mad PLEASE someone help??

As far as I know you can't delete the primary email address for an iCloud account. It's assigned when the account is created. But your neighbor wouldn't have been able to get into your iCloud account without your Apple ID and password. Are you sure the account wasn't still on your phone when you gave it to him?
You could migrate a copy of your data to a new iCloud account but I would still be concerned that someone else was using my old account, which presumably still has your data in it.
I'm fairly certain that you're going to have to have iCloud support help you sort this one out as they may have the ability to make changes to an existing account that users can't. Make an appointment with the genius bar at a nearby Apple store and have them take a look at it. If necessary, they should be able to contact iCloud support for you.

Ingest new version with old version archived - Revisited & solved

I couldn't react to the old thread anymore, but I'd like to share the solution with this forum, because it shows the power of the default functionality in the system.
Start situation: asset is archived, new version comes in, overwrite is set to 'on'.
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Archive Status EQUALS Offline
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2. duplicating the file to another device, "Archive_Exchange" (no Asset, no Proxy created)
3. restoring the (old) file from the archive.
A third subscription - event type = modified - is subscribing to a job:
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Title CONTAINS 'Restoring'
Owner EQUALS 'admin'
Status EQUALS 'DONE' - Trigger-if-changed box is ticked
plus definition of FROM and TO devices.
The response is:
Scan the device "Archive_Exchange"; the only metadata which is set here is:
Metadata Set equals 'Media' and status equals 'New Version'. No proxies needed.
Subscription #4 - event type = created - is looking for the newly created asset on 'Archive_Exchange'
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It's a little bit 'Working-around-the-bugs', because why is the system copying the new version to another device, while it knows the Original Media is in the archive, but still, it works and the beauty is: no scripts needed!
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The second method is to let FCSvr be the master. In this, you don't mess with the filesystem--all file interactions are done indirectly like through watchers, uploads, and archiving/restoring. File names must be unique, unless you create the device as a contentbase device type.
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My phone was stolen how do i retrieve my contacts on a new phone

My phone was stolen how do i retrieve my contacts on a new phone?

If you have an iCloud account, change your AppleID and iCloud passwords immediately. That will keep a thief from connecting and deleting your iCloud backups. When you get a new iPhone, if from an Apple store, the genius bar staff can download the information you have in iCloud and restore it to your new iPhone.

When I plug my iPhone into my computer to sync my iTunes I get a message that says "iTunes cannot read the content of the iPhone" and wants me to restore my phone back to factory settings. Any suggestions so that I don't have to restore?

When I plug my iPhone into my computer to sync my iTunes I get a message that says "iTunes cannot read the content of the iPhone" and wants me to restore my phone back to factory settings. Any suggestions so that I don't have to restore? I have all of my stuff backed up on iCloud but I really don't want to go through the hassle of wiping it clean and putting everything back on.

This is a post from a user named edgar999 and it worked PERFECTLY:
"OK - this is how it works:
In order to backup from iCloud you cannot use iTunes!
Therefore disconnect your device from your computer.
Turn on your device and go to Settings and then go to General.
At the bottom of this submenu there is a buttom "Reset"
If you push that buttom you see 6 different Erase settings to chose from!
Chose "Erase All Content and Settings" because this will wipe everything from your device and will let you restore from iCloud! (I tried the top "Reset All Settings" but that did not let me use iClouds afterwards!)
Once you pushed that buttom your device will be wiped clean and after some time you will see the Device Welcome Screen like on a new device!
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Restoring from a backup can take some time. The process uses your Wi-Fi connection to download settings, content and data. If you had a lot of content on your device, this can take a while. The restore screen should give you estimates at each stage of the restore process, starting with restoring the settings and then booting into the iPad. When the iPad home screen appears, the device will continue the restore process by downloading all of your applications.
If you are restoring from a backup because you have run into problems with your device that can only be solved by restoring it, you can first choose your latest backup. If you still have problems, you can move on to the next latest backup, repeating the process until (hopefully) the problem is cleared."
THANK YOU edgar999!!!!

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