My iPhone 4S suddenly deleted all my contacts. Help, My iPhone 4S suddenly deleted all my contacts. Help

As I was using the phone, the phone went through a 'supernatural' moment - flickering etc. and then the contacts was empty. Even the favourites had numbers and not names.
I shut down the phone and restarted it but to no avail.
Now, just as suddenly, the contacts are back! But not all of them.

Do you have a iTunes backup for your iPhone 4s? If so, you may refer to this blog to extract iPhone contacts from iPhone backup via iTunes
http://easy-iphone-recovery.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-extract-iphone-contacts- from.html
If you have not back up your iPhone, you may try the “Recover from iOS Device” mode with the iPhone contacts recovery software.
Please have a try.

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My iPhone 4S suddenly deleted all my contacts. Help, My iPhone 4S suddenly deleted all my contacts. Help

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