iPhone 4S : Lost contacts while transferring fm another phone

Hello,

I have two iPhones, one with a US number (iPhone A) and one with an Indian number = iPhone B

I wanted to retain the contacts I have in B, and transfer the contacts from A to B.

I synced A with iTunes through my Sony laptop.

I then connected iPhone B to my laptop.

That's where something went wrong, because after I synced B with iTunes, I had all the contacts that were in A, but lost the contacts that were in B!

I have an iCloud account too.

Is there any way to retrieve the contacts I originally had in B?

Thanks for your help.
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Just to add to that, I've lost all the Phone data(favorites, recent calls, etc.), all my Notes, all my Pictures (in the Camera Roll)...

You should have backed up your iPhone B contacts to your laptop via something like copytrans contacts - before you synced with iTunes.

iTunes automatically creates a backup of your contacts and other iPhone data such as notes and calendars upon sync - problem is you can only restore this via a factory-settings restore.

Now the only thing to do is to restore your iPhone B with iTunes to factory settings. When iTunes prompts you if you want to restore a previous backup - select the backup from the date which your iPhone B's contacts got wiped by iTunes. This will restore your original iPhone B contacts on your iPhone B and delete your iPhone A contacts from there.

Finally, use the program I mentioned above in order to:

1. Create a backup of both your iPhone A and B contacts to your computer
2. Transfer your iPhone A contacts and add them to your iPhone B without deleting the contacts existing on iPhone B

Good luck.

Thanks, Narins.

You said that I shd restore my iPhone B with iTunes to factory settings.
I don't want to goof up again; how exactly should I do that?
A step-by-step would be very helpful

Hi Narins,

I tried that and came to a decision point where it asked me for:
a) Set Up as New iPhone
Restore fm iCloud
c) Restore fm iTunes

which one shd i go for?

thanks.

Khirrkee, open your iTunes, connect your iPhone, right-click on the device and select restore from backup:




Next, select the backup from the date you clearly remember your original iPhone contacts were wiped by iTunes:




Warning: Know that restoring your iPhone will delete all your music and custom photos. You will however be able to recover your original iPhone contacts, calendars, notes and camera roll photos if you restore from backup.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Narins, will try and let u know.

Hi Narins,

I tried this and now have a better sense of what's happening.

The problem is that I neglected to sync my iPhone A (with the Indian # and contacts) with iTunes or iCloud, so the latest version I had, which I restored to my iPhone A, was dated early April 2012 --- long before I added my Indian contacts!

I've now re-learned why I should make sure my stuff is backed up and synced!

Cheers.

Sorry to hear about your loss - though there might be a solution to this problem. Have you considered using specialist recovery tools?

 

There are products online which can go through your system to find & restore any files that you may have deleted.

 

The program I used can be downloaded from here: Click Me!

 

It recovers from the phone's data backups, so not only contacts, but also pics & video.

 

I'm not entirely sure whether its compatible with your iOS and all that , so download the trial version first!!