My iphone photos disappeared after a crash

what can i do to get them back?

the funny thing is i found loads of people with this problem, and they where on vacations and lost they're vacations photos. without the mac, or wireless to backup, what is your solution? cause that's EXACTLY what happened to me. the phone should be good enough for you to not have to rely on every night, before going to bed, backing up. cause sometimes you just can't. so what's you're geek excuse now? is it normal for you to use your mac, it crashes, and then you loose all of those files from that day? are you seriously telling me that that's normal? that you wouldn't be curious/mad about it?. yeah right.

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