My 3Gs suddenly lost all contacts information

My iphone 3gs suddenly lost all my contacts information. Before I go to the trouble of manually reentering them all I am wondering what might have caused this and if there is a way to get them back?

You should be syncing your contact to your computer regularly. Just sync them back to the iphone.

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In regards to contact info, the iPhone is designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer.
With XP, this can be with Outlook 2003 or 2007, or with the address book used by Outlook Express, which I believe is named Windows Contacts.
Photos captured by your iPhone should be imported by your computer, as with any other digital camera.
Music and video transferred to your iPhone should remain in your iTunes library on your computer, and the same for photos that were transferred to your iPhone from your computer.
iTunes creates and maintains a backup of your iPhone, which is updated if needed as the very first step during the sync process - if any of the data included with your iPhone's backup has changed since the last sync.
The backup stores data such as most iPhone settings, email account settings, SMS messages, notes created with the Notes application, recent calls, call favorites, contact info, and photos that were captured by your iPhone, but it isn't a good idea to depend on your iPhone's backup only for the last two. As already provided, contact info is designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer, and photos captured by your iPhone should be imported by your computer - as with any other digital camera.
You updated to 2.2 from which firmware version, and did you sync your iPhone with iTunes immediately before installing firmware update 2.2 to update your iPhone's backup if needed?
You can try restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup. This will completely erase your iPhone followed by re-installing the current firmware version, which is 2.2. After 2.2 is re-installed, you will be prompted to restore your iPhone from your iPhone's backup, which is the default selection. After your iPhone is restored from your iPhone's backup, this must be followed by a sync with iTunes to re-transfer your selected iTunes content from your computer to your iPhone along with any photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone.
If your contact information and photos that were captured by your iPhone are not restored from your iPhone's backup and you didn't sync contact information with a supported application on your computer and you didn't import the photos that were captured by your iPhone, this data will be lost.

Lost all contact information on my iphone, how do I get it back?

I have been looking through a number of threads about this but cannot identify one that would solve my problem.
I have a S4 and don't use cloud - at least as far as I know. I have synced my phone with my Macbook Pro - and I usually have it 'hooked up' to charge the phone while working on my computer. Late last night I noticed that all my contacts had just disappeard. I have no idea how or when they went, so it is difficult to say even if the phone was connected to my Mac when it happened. I haven't tried any of the cures because I want to make sure that I find them rather than making it worse.
I still have all pics, texts and apps. It is only all the names and numbers have vanished. Any suggestions greatly appreciated as we are in the middle of a build and I need to contact people to get our house finished before Christmas!

If you synced your phone with iTunes on your Mac, check iTunes/Settings/Devices and see if there is a recent backup of your phone listed. If yes, use it to restore from, contacts are part of the backup.
Also check if syncing contacts is selected in the Info pane in iTunes with your phone connected.
If it says that your contacts can be or are synced from your address book on your Mac, and your address book does have your contacts listed, your contacts will be synced again to your phone the next time you sync it.
Just make sure to have at least one contact listed on the phone, syncing to an iPhone without contacts listed will erase the info on your computer as well.
Contacts
To sync contacts with your computer, choose "Sync Contacts with" within iTunes for Windows, or "Sync Contacts" in OS X v10.8, or "Sync Address Book Contacts" in OS X v10.7 and earlier.
You can sync your contacts with:
Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2010 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8)
Windows Address Book (Windows XP)
Windows Contacts (Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8)
Address Book (Mac OS X v10.7 and earlier)
Contacts (Mac OS X v10.8)
Microsoft Entourage 2004, Microsoft Entourage 2008, or Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac
Notes:
When syncing contacts, you can choose to sync all of your contacts or only selected groups. The option to sync selected items may not show up until after the first sync.
You can select a group of contacts to which all new contacts created on your iOS device will be added.
Additional options for syncing include syncing your contacts with Yahoo or Gmail/Google Mail. You will need to configure it with the user name and password for your Yahoo or Google account.
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valerie136 wrote:
I just purchased to new iphone4s. I went home plugged old iphone 3Gs to back up to save my info to transfer to new iphone 4s. One of the 3Gs after it spent about 30 minutes in back up mode suddenly said it was unable to back up then i received a plug in to itunes message on it and the message I am receiving is to restore it to factory settings. So i basically lost all my information. I do not want to repeat this fiasco on my husbands phone which contains his business contacts etc. Please help!
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You can pay $40 to $100 for a program that can acces the contact info..
or you can use freeware to extract the backup , browse it for the contact information and convert it into a document which you can then open and manually copy your contacts from..
Even if you have a newer backup on your computer, the old information may still be in there..
So far as your apps, if you did not use the "transfer purchases" option when backing up, your lost apps are lost and you will have to again download them from the app store.. in the future, use the "transfer purchases" option and ALL your apps will be on your backup..
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Looks like sign in issue, This article is a great resource for the message you are receiving.
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