Photos not restored from backup?!

I backed up my iphone 4 and then restored it to original settings. When I tried to restore from my back up on itunes my music and photos were gone. I do not know what to do, any help? If I took the phone to an apple store would they be able to fix it? or if i took it to my carrier, I have insurance for my phone but im not sure if they cover restoring photots, etc. Any help would be great.

Hello lucarichards,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Photos are handled a little differently in iOS 8. Take a look at this article to see how and get help finding them:
Get help finding your Photos in iOS 8
Regards,
Jeff D.

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rockmyplimsoul wrote:
Instead of manually managing the music on your iPhone, manually manage the contents of a playlist and auto-sync to that playlist. You're doing the same thing, just managing a playlist instead of your phone. The beauty of this is that you never lose track of what you manually chose to sync to your iPhone.
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I can't find anything specific on that error code, but this Apple article may give you some ideas on how to fix it: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
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I did not hear about other having these issues... They way you backed up your data should have worked! The only thing I could think about why it did not work, is that you presses sync instead of Backup my iPhone. An therefore the Backup was not fully done (like your mac only asks you to import/save applications from your iPhone to your iTunes library if you hit Back up... if you hit sync it will not ask you.)
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