All of my contacts deleted?

[ilovegoogle34]

I clicked the button to start a new text. My phone didn't comply, and then went to the home screen. I went into my text messages and noticed that all my contacts were gone? Just the numbers were there. So I checked my contacts, and sure enough. None. I held home and hold in order to restart it and that didn't work, so I pulled the SIM out and put it back and nothing. I'm syncing now, but I'm not sure if it'll work.

Has this ever happened to anyone?


EDIT: It didn't work. I have 0 contacts for absolutely no reason.

[Cjvdh]

Do you have the contacts backed up somewhere ?

[Krunk83]

^^^What he said, if you do, then make sure the contacts tab is checked off in the info tab in itunes.

[dMAXIMOb]

This happened to me after I last jailbroke. I foolishly forgot to backup my contact info.
For some reason, after the jailbreak, my contacts were there. But a few hours later they were gone.
Ahhhhh, lessons learned the hard way, sigh.

[juls1585]

backing up daily or even everyother day is a good idea. just to make sure you have all that info stored in itunes. also having another source of your contacts is good. i actually have a note document with everyones name, phone number and other contact information saved and i try to update it atleast once a month.

[Woofus]

Yet another reason that I LOVE the folks at Google/Gmail

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple

Put all of your contacts on your Gmail account and then set up your phone to sync the contacs and calendar with it. :dft003:coolkid

(Gmail push also works now too!)

Then when you update one or the other, they automatically sync up the changes. And if/when you do a jailbreak or restore or your phone just goes stupid, you just re-setup the GoogleSync account and your contacts and calendar appear as if by magic! :ok:ok

[Krunk83]

I use google push too but just for contacts. It's great. I just hope the google server never crashes.