Lost pictures after restoring phone

I got a replacement iphone 3gs and when I plugged it into itunes I chose to restore phone for some reason. Now I can't find my pictures I took with the phone. Is there anywhere I can find them at or are they gone for good?

Were the pictures on the device the last time it was backed up/synced with the comptuer?
Were the pictures copied off the device, as intended, at any point?
If the answer to either of the above quetions is no, then there is no way to recover them.

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i m currently using a iphone 4 and while before restoring i have done the back up and after restoring all 2500 pictures was gone and no way to extract. But making use of other third party software all picture was found but due to purchase software thus never make any purchase to retrieve all picture back.
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Hey there spam242,
It sounds like the restore process will not complete successfully and the phone will not boot up. I recommend starting by resetting the phone, then try restoring again.
If your device stops responding, you can reset it by pressing and holding both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
From: iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
If the issue persists, then I would next put the phone into Recovery Mode and try again.
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Take care,
Sterling

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If the pictures were in the backup, they should have been restored. If you had pictures on the phone that were not in your last backup and had not been imported to the computer prior to the restore, then they are lost.

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If these were photos taken AFTER October 2011 by your iphone and you restored your iPhone to October 2011, then they are gone.
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Photos captured by the iPhone should be included with your iPhone's backup, which is created and maintained by iTunes during the sync process.
Copied from this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
+*Backup information includes information such as mail settings, text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences.*+
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I have a Nokia N95 and ran an update on my phone- I was careful to back-up all my data using PC Suite before updating. After the update i had gone back to the factory settings and had absolutely none of my data on their at all.
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Lost info after restoring

I restored my phone and lost a bunch of notes, applications, contacts. Is there anyway to get these back now?

How often do you sync your iPhone with iTunes?
iTunes creates and maintains a backup for your iPhone which is updated if needed as the first step during the sync process - if any of the data on your iphone that is included with the backup has changed since the last sync, which is usually 100% of the time.
Your iPhone's backup includes data such as most iPhone settings, email account settings, contact info, SMS messages, notes, recent calls, call favorites, photos in your iPhone's camera roll, and 3rd party app settings and data created and stored by a 3rd party app.
3rd party apps are not included with the backup. 3rd party apps should be in your iTunes library on your computer along with all other iTunes content - music, video, and podcasts.
Contact info and calendar events are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer. With XP and Vista, this can be with Outlook 2003 or 2007 for contact info and calendar events, and with Windows Contacts for contact info only - the address book used by Outlook Express with XP, and the address book used by Windows Mail with Vista - the name change for Outlook Express with Vista.
When restoring your iPhone with iTunes, your iPhone is erased and the firmware is re-installed. After the firmware is re-installed, you are prompted to restore your iPhone from your iPhone's backup, which is the default selection. The other selection which must be manually selected is restoring your iPhone as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
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A couple days ago I tried to connect my playbook to my computer to backup my pictures. First time it has ever been hooked up to computer. It said it was connected in desktop manager but there was no icon for it in the My Computer folder as a removable drive. An update popped up saying there was an update available for my tablet. I clicked update (it took a while) When playbook started back up it had me going through all the start up procedure (choosing language etc. Turns out I lost all my camera pictures. The icon is still there but the only pictures in there are wallpaper pics that come with the playbook. It's like it did a wipe but I did not have to enter my wifi network, or password. Those were still there, just my pictures and contacs were missing. This happen to anyone else, and is there any way I can get my pictures back. I could not back them up as I could not connect to my PC. Very frustrating as you should not lose your files by doing an update.

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I complied. The result was that the playbook update in fact replaced my former playbook software and deleted all applications and all personal data including settings, book marks, notations, writings, files, saved emails, and most importantly photos and videos which were taken with the playbook of my children in irreplaceable moments and of course finally, the audio files that i had created over a 10 hour period earlier this week.
I have a back up that i then restored from which is a few months old; however all of my current work is lost.
On top of my current problem with this playbook and my lost files, I am also sitting here staring at my first Bold 9900 which is bricked and inoperable. ATT wont replace it and Blackberry wont touch it. ....and of course there was my first Playbook which i bought on Day 1 of the launch for full price, it too failed and i lost dozens and dozens of files. Having to send it back to RIM and go through a legnthy RMA process in which they fumbled and broke promisees made....
I have 3 tablets, 2 operational 9900 bolds and have been using Blackberry for 9 generations of models going back to the 1990s. I have my family on the platform as well.
Loyal or Stupid? Not quite sure as I sit here staring at this playbook which has just thrown a giant monkey wrench into my work.
I have defended Blackberrys recent missteps to the CIO's, CTO's. Lawyers, Judges, Friends and Family on 3 continents in private and in public.
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I will continue with my corporate Bold 9900 as long as i have no other choice, but will move to BYOD as soon as i am able. I will disengage all my personal and family Blackberry devices and will move to another platform.
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I just uploaded a couple thousand pictures form my iphone into iphoto. after completion, I clicked to have the imported photos deleted from the phone. During the deletion process, iphoto froze and I had to force quit the program. Now, I cant find my pictures in iphoto, and most of the pictures were deleted from the phone before the program froze.
any Idea's on how to find/get these pictures? I appriciate any help. thanks.

If the photos are in the library but not recognized by iPhoto there are a couple of things you can try.
Make a temporary, backup copy (select the library and type Command+D) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
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Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
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I have lost my pictures from my iphone 5 after i updated to ios 8. how can i retrieve those photos?! Please help!

since there is no backup (itunes/icloud) i don't think u could retrive them back. if u are lucky some of them maybe found on recently added folder (photostream)
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