Restoring Contacts & Calendars 3GS

I have not been able to restore a single contact, my calendar, my notes, four fifths of my photos despite 4 backups/restores/backups from restore, synching/merging w/google, yahoo, etc! I can see the files on my computer! I've tried seemingly everything!!! I opened a word doc, chose merge contacts, selected the file only to get the error msg: "File not found" and it's sitting in several places on my computer! I started researching converting dll files but... The guy who replaced my motherboard said, "Get an android, the iphone's crap! ... If there's anyone who can escort me out of the Twilight Zone? I'd appreciate it
Kat

SAME PROBLEM HERE!!

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Exchange server down; restore contacts\calendar from iphone

Hello community,
i ran into a problem when helping a friend out trying to migrate his contacts\calendar entries from iphone3 to his new iphone5. We first used iTunes to back up his old iphone's data and then restored this data to the new iphone. However, his calendar entries were completely missing as were most of his contacts (not all of them). I then synced the calendar\contacts to Outlook, but got the same result: the calendar was totally empty, and most of his contacts too (however, the synchronisation process mentioned something about Exchange).
My friend is not very savyy when it comes to technical stuff and had his iPhone set up by a collegue a couple of years ago and didn't know anything about its configuration.
As i figured out the phone was indeed configured to save its calendar\contacts on an Exchange server hosted by an external company. I confirmed that when creating a new calendar entry, the phone was set to save the entry in a calendar hosted on the Exchange server. (The same thing with new contacts)
However, the problem is the Exchange server is down for a couple of years now as the external company no longer exists. Think my friend must have "clicked away" a notification about this once as i used the old phone for several hours figuring out the settings and NEVER got any notification about the phone not being able to access the Exchange server.
I searched the internet how to migrate Exchange calendar\entrys to a new phone, but all tutorials i found are based on scenarios where the Exchange server is still accessible. Does anybody know any way or 3rd party tool (the ones i tried only gave me the same result as the iTunes\Outlook approach) to retrieve the entries from the iPhone ?? Right know, i told my friend that his calendar is probably gone for good, and the he can add any missing contacts by sending the contact via Email from his old phone and then import the vcf file on his new phone (but as he has several hundred entries, this would be a very cumbersome approach).
Regards

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contactmover/id456984826?mt=8

OK, I THINK I HAVE FOUND THE FIX TO RESTORE CONTACTS, CALENDAR ETC

Try this.......takes about 2 mins
1. In itunes, top left click edit
2. when it opens click preference
3. when it opens click devices
4. this shows all your back ups
5. select the back up you want.
6. close that window
7. go to your iphone symbol on left and side and click to open
8. click restore from back up and hopefully it will work.
it says it will only work for contacts calendar etc and not change firmware.
I cannot try this as my phone is newer than my back up....different serial etc.
but if someone trys this and it works, please post that it works.

I used this information and correctly restored my contacts to my iPhone.
I was wondering if you happen to have any solutions, or what would you personally do in this situation:
After installing new software onto my iPhone, applications are visible in iTunes, I have selected the Applications to sync, and after the sync is finished, the applications are not actually on the iPhone. I have tried several times, which resulted in losing all of my applications from phone. I have troubleshooted and the most useful solution was to do with the restrictions of the App Store, although this is not the case for my scenario.
If you can find a possible solution could you please reply, or even if you cant assist, your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Jo.

Restore contacts, calendar

I lost my Curve (8330) two days ago.
Since then, been trying to restore info onto my old 7250 (what a clunker by comparison!), which I have had activated as I had to have a phone but did not have the money to replace my Curve.
Why when I attempt restores will it not let me transfer contact info?
I got texts and messenger info to transfer over.
Cannot get email (don't need) or more importantly Contact info.
It is greyed out in the restore and says it is read only and cannot be copied (or copied to) because of wireless syncronization (which I do not use).
I cannot get the Calendar to restore either.
How can I get the calendar and contacts either to my 7250 from the backup, or at least get the info out to a spreadsheet (for the calendar)?
Thanks.

I'm gonna stretch here and tell you how this would be done on a newer device operating system, but I have absolutely no idea if this will work (the command paths) on your 7250.
Go to Options > Advanced > Service Books. Scroll to and find the Service Book listed as "[DESKTOP] Sync" and delete it.
Now reconnect to the Desktop Software and attempt the Calendar and Address Book restore. I hope this works for you, but remember that 7250 is about 7-8 years old in technology compared to what you're restoring.
For $25-50 you could get even a newer 83xx model to tide you over, from Ebay or Craig's list.
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RESTORE CONTACTS, CALENDAR, AND NOTES TO IPHONE 4S

I recently had noticed that all my Contacts, Notes, and Calendar entries are gone. How can I get these items back onto my phone. I can see them when I log in to ICloud and can see the Contacts and Calendar, but do not see the stored Notes that I mhad created. Can anybody assist as to how to retrive these back to I Phone 4S with iOS 7.0.2 system. Thanks

Did you ever find out how to do this?

Restore don't restore contact, etc on my 6233! :(

hi, can some one please help me.
I backed up my 6233 using the latest version of PC suite (everything was backed up without problem).
When i tried to restore everything back, after the nokia service centre updated the firmware on my phone from 3.9x to 4.91, it won't restore the contacts, messages, callender or bookmarks (all the important stuff), so it's completely useless, the only thing it restored is the user files which i could not care less about!
Please help me, as i NEED my contacts at the very least!!
Thank you.
p.s. the backup lot is included below: ####################################################
RESTORE LOG:
Date and time: 16/12/2006 20:42:51
Backup was restored to phone: Nokia 6233
Backup was restored from file:
C:\Documents and Settings\abc\Application Data\Nokia\ContentCopier\Nokia 6233_16-12-2006.nbu
Content restored:
- User files
Graphics\Nokia.com33.bmk
Graphics\Clip-arts\Apple.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Clown.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Design.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Heart.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Smile.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Star.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Whiskars.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\Wow.gif
Graphics\Clip-arts\X.gif
Graphics\Frames\Circles.gif
Graphics\Frames\Colors.gif
Graphics\Frames\Sketch.gif
Graphics\Frames\Square.gif
Graphics\Wallpapers\Arrange.jpg
Graphics\Wallpapers\Balance.jpg
Graphics\Wallpapers\Petals.jpg
Graphics\Wallpapers\Pinkflower.jpg
Graphics\Wallpapers\Strawberry.jpg
Music files\Nokia.com63.bmk
Themes\Nokia.com58.bmk
Tones\Nokia.com38.bmk
Video clips\Nokia.com43.bmk
Content not restored:
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Messages
- Bookmarks
####################################################Message Edited by llaadd on 16-Dec-2006
09:05 PM
LLAADD

thanks a lot, my contacts are on now
i swear i looked at that thread, must have skipped page 2 by accident...just my luck!
that prog should be made more easily available and as a stickey on here...would solve a lot of ppl's probs...and cut down on a lot of ppl asking about it!!
btw is there any way i can restore callender and messages? or at least view callender from the backup file so i can restore manually!
thank you.
LLAADD

3GS Sync Causing Double Sets of Contacts & Calendars?

I activated my 3GS this morning. I restored from my last backup. Then when it was up and running in did a sync w/ Mobile Me - now I have 'on my iphone' and 'on my mac (mobileme)' in both calendar and contacts - how do i get rid of the 'on my iphone' sets?!?! ie when I go to 'all contacts' or 'all calendars' I don't have to look at duplicates of everything and when add or edit something I know it's going to the 'cloud' and not to t he 'on my iphone' part...

ciphoto,
Open "Settings" on the iPhone>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks>Accounts>your MobileMe account and turn off Contacts, when prompted delete data, and wait two minutes, then turn Contacts back on. When asked merge the data, make that choice, and wait patiently. You should no longer have duplicates. If you are able, I recommend using a Wi-Fi connection to make the change.
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After upgrading to iOS 5, I lost my contacts, calendar entries, and Notes on my iPhone 3GS (3 years old). How do I retrieve them? My last backup/sync to iTunes acct was Sept 18 but yesterday's backup bombed due to lack of space on my C: drive.

Yikes! After upgrading my iPhone 3GS to iOS 5, I lost my Contacts, calendar entries, and Notes (100+) on my iPhone (3 years old). How do I retrieve them? My last backup/sync to iTunes acct was Sept 18 but yesterday's backup bombed due to lack of space on my C: drive.

This happened to me too but it was really all there. Go to your calendar, click on calendar in the upper left hand corner, click on show all calendars, click done in the right upper corner. Everything should show up!!!
I was super thrilled. Hope this works for you!!

I updated my Iphone 3gs to last version of iOS and now I can't change my configurations of Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

I updated my Iphone 3gs to last version of iOS and now I can't change my configurations of Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Generally that is a sign that the iPhone had previously been jailbroken
or hacked to work with other than the original wireless provider. The update
has relocked the iPhone to the original wireless provider. You must
contact them to see if they provide unlocking and if you qualify.
If you can get that far, what does it say when you look at
Settings=>General=>About=>Carrier?

What shall i do? I've done restoring my iphone 3gs and still stuck on cannot activate and contact customer service.

I've done restoring my iphone 3gs and still stuck on cannot activate and contact customer service. What shall i do? any help please.

99.9% of the time, the cause of this issue is the fact the phone was jailbroken/hacked to unlock it for use on networks other than the network the phone was originally locked to. Apple maintains a database of officially unlocked iPhones, and when Apple's servers detect phones such as yours, activation stops & you get the message you got.
So, either get a sim card from the carrier your phone was originally locked to, or get it officially unlocked, if you want to activate it. Because it appears that it was not officially unlocked.

Since upgrading my 3GS to IOS5, I have lost all my contacts, calendar inputs, and photos. How can I retrieve?

Since upgrading my 3GS to IOS5, I have lost all my contacts, calendar inputs, and photos. How can I retrieve?

All media should be in iTunes on the computer, simply sync it back.

I had to do a restore on my 3gs and lost my photos and contacts, is there any way to get them back ?

I had to do a restore on my 3gs and lost my photos and contacts, is there any way to get them back ?

If the photos were not backed up with a recent backup, there is NO way to retrieve them.

Settings Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen closes immediately? I have tried Restore and all software up to date... help!, Settings Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen closes immediately? I have tried Restore and all software up to date... help!

When I go to Settings > 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' the screen closes immediately returning to the home screen? I have tried resetting the iphone - no change, I then restored the iphone completely - no change (all software up to date.) please help!

I have the same problem with iPhone4, iOS5. The only workaround i have found was to disable the contacts and calender for the iCloud account. So much for being able to sync all my Mac products. At least with Mobileme everything but my windows products synced and worked OK.

I restored my iPhone 3GS without backup I lost everything that I had on iOS photos, contacts and messages. All I have are the apps and files I had before I upgraded to iOS. Is it possible to get back all that I have lost?

Hi all, I restored my iPhone 3GS without backup and it took all recent messages, contacts, photos and videos. All I am left with is the content I had before I upgraded to iOS. Can these lost files be retrieved? Please help.

Look... I don't have my crystal ball handy. I don't know how or if you had your backup set up. You don't adequately describe what you're missing. Stating that "All I am left with is the content I had before I upgraded to iOS" doesn't tell me anything at all... When did you upgrade? Apparently, you had a backup from that time, and when you restored, you restored from that backup. If you had no other backups in between then and now, then anything since that time is gone. Permanently.

Mail contacts calendars option freezes in settings list

For no reason whatsoever, my Exchange Server mail stopped syncing with my iPad2 yesterday. When I go to Settings, "Mail Contacts Calendars", the line highlights but then just freezes right there and I can never get into those settings (eventually the iPad just takes me back the home screen). I did a soft reset, then a hard reset with restore (same problem), and now I am doing a hard reset with no restore (basically wiping the unit clean, which is such a pain in the a$$ to get all of my apps back into the appropriate folders that I've created). Any reason why this happened? Any way to fix it in the future? I have an iPhone 3GS and the mail was still working fine with it. No changes were made on the server or on the iPad2 (I own the company and know that no one did any changes yesterday). It happened just out of the blue. Thoughts? Thanks.

I have been experiencing some major sync/push problems with mail, contacts and calendar between my Mac, iphone and ipad for over a month now. The problems are still being investigated by Apples technicians.
However, a couple of days ago I set up a new iCloud account, whilst my original one is currently being investigated and is practically useless.
The new iCloud account works fine. All devices sync properly and I can create, edit and delete entries from all devices.
This is clearly an iCloud issue. I was initially suspected of causing the problem. I am now in the clear. If your email is of no consequence I suggest setting up a new iCloud account. Mine is important so I am waiting for Apple to reset my original iCloud account so that I can use it again.
Since setting up the new account my ipad works fine and no longer freezes in settings.
Result. Hope it works for you.

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