Lost photos / camera roll after restore and update.

As the title says , I recently had to restore my iphone 3gs due to having problems with MAIL (problem fixed now.) but after doing a full backup and restore on the phone and update to the iOS 4 ( i think>) , I lost all of the photos that I had in the camera roll album folder , now I have loads of photos there that I do not want to loose ! I know there should be a way of getting them back from the backup but how ? Plus to prove even more that they are still there somwhere , when I connect it to the iTunes on my PC (Windows Vista) , under the yellow section bar it shows there are 315 (1.26 gb) photos on my device...but when I disconnect it and go into the album , there are 0 ! Now I have been reading about this online and people say that you basically take the images off your pc and sync them back onto the phone...but I havent got them saved on my pc anywhere...so where are they? PLEASE HELP me out on this one ,
thank you in advance.

The only place they may be is in a previous backup from before the restore. No Apple tool that I know of accesses these files within the backup file. There are reportedly some 3rd party tools that can get to the photos imbeded in the backup. The other option is to restore the old backup and then import the camera roll via iphoto or some other tool.
If you have no copy of the old backup, I think you are out of luck.
As you know by now, the iPhone's camera roll is treated as a digital camera, not as part of the sync.
For the second post, if you'd like Apple to add the import to the sync process, you can request that via the www.apple.com/feedback web site.
Thanks.

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JFleety17 wrote:
Yes it was jailbroken.
Buzz! Thank you for playing!
Enjoy your iBrick.
Now you know why Apple recommends against making unauthorized modifications to the phone.
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