Lost my contact app on my Iphone 3gs

I had an error on my latest download of iTunes 11.0.5 for window 7 64 bit and there was an error message -42404 where all the components had not downloaded correctly, I plugged my Iphone 3GS to download some photos and essentially locked up my phone. I disconnected the phone and my pass code no logner worked so forced to set up as a new phone. Now there is no contact icon on my phone screen and there are no contacts when I write a message. However there is a contact icon when I use the phone to make a call and all my contacts seem to be there along with my calendar information. So my question is how do I recover my phone as the restore feature on iTunes which is now working has already backed up the current iphone information and I have lost my original back up! I have tried resetting the the home screen to the factory settings but there is still NO contacts icon?

Check the Utilities folder. You can check first by going to Spotlight search and search for Contacts. If it is located in a folder, the right side of the search line if it is located should identify the folder name. The default location for Contacts though is the Utilities folder.

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valenceparadigm wrote:
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