Lost contacts and pictures after upgrade to ios5

[rajnikanth]

1. I lost all my contacts and pictures from the "mad" ios5 upgrade today?
Can I downgrade to ios 4 and get back my data, even if means to do it by jailbreaking.

2.Also, where are the pictures and contacts stored. I have a backup file on the my windows PC with todays date and time ~ 3.5gb. The apple rep says it is an xml file and does not have the data. If the files are stored on "My Pictures", I dont see them. If the contacts are on the Microsoft outlook, they are not there. I have not changed any settings and I did many upgrades before without loosing the data.

Can some one help please?

thanks
raj.

 

[noekozz]

1. I lost all my contacts and pictures from the "mad" ios5 upgrade today?
Can I downgrade to ios 4 and get back my data, even if means to do it by jailbreaking.

2.Also, where are the pictures and contacts stored. I have a backup file on the my windows PC with todays date and time ~ 3.5gb. The apple rep says it is an xml file and does not have the data. If the files are stored on "My Pictures", I dont see them. If the contacts are on the Microsoft outlook, they are not there. I have not changed any settings and I did many upgrades before without loosing the data.

Can some one help please?

thanks
raj.

I'm having a similar issues. I along with many others have lost our pictures/videos from the camera roll after the update to iOS5.

 

[steveza]

Do another restore from your most recent backup. This worked for me and others. Sometimes doing a restore by right clicking on the device in iTunes and choosing "Restore from backup" will allow you to choose a specific backup.

You don't need to downgrade to IOS 4.x

 

[rajnikanth]

I did one backup restore yesterday, without any change. It is asking me to chose to pick up from the backup with the correct date and time of the backup file. When I try to choose that, it asks me the password for the backup file, which I used many months ago ( and I do not remember it). I punched in some of my old passwords. I get a response saying that the restore failed because the backup failed. If the password was incorrect, then it should say, that the password is incorrect, however, it is saying something different. Now, when I called the apple rep, he says, the backup file is only an xml file without actual data. The data is usually stored in "Mypictures" for pictures, outlook contacts for contacts , both the above on my pc. In both the above, I checked and found no pictures or contacts on my pc. I am not sure, if the backup file stores the data elsewhere. This problem did not happen before, and I did not change the settings. So, why would anything be different now?

thanks for your help.

 

[Icy1007]

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When the upgrade finished on my iPhone my contacts list was blank at first. They all came back after a little while.

 

[F123D]

I also lost my contacts but no big deal since I backed up everything. Contacts never came back either..

 

[rajnikanth]

I also lost my contacts but no big deal since I backed up everything. Contacts never came back either..

Well, I lost pictures, which I really miss.

 

[dothy]

after i upgraded to ios5, same as everyone, all my contacts, messages, pictures are gone. cany anyone help how to restore it?

i already tried to restore back up but it does not accept all my passwords.

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I'm having a similar issues. I along with many others have lost our pictures/videos from the camera roll after the update to iOS5.

are u able to get back all the lost data? like photos and contacts?

 

[PNutts]

OP: In Settings - General - About is the number of photos on the phone zero?

 

[Punker]

For the sms, you dont need to downgrade if you have an old backup somewhere
Follow these instructions. It worked perfectly for me...multiple times

Cheers

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13740587/

 

[haruhiko]

I did one backup restore yesterday, without any change. It is asking me to chose to pick up from the backup with the correct date and time of the backup file. When I try to choose that, it asks me the password for the backup file, which I used many months ago ( and I do not remember it). I punched in some of my old passwords. I get a response saying that the restore failed because the backup failed. If the password was incorrect, then it should say, that the password is incorrect, however, it is saying something different. Now, when I called the apple rep, he says, the backup file is only an xml file without actual data. The data is usually stored in "Mypictures" for pictures, outlook contacts for contacts , both the above on my pc. In both the above, I checked and found no pictures or contacts on my pc. I am not sure, if the backup file stores the data elsewhere. This problem did not happen before, and I did not change the settings. So, why would anything be different now?

thanks for your help.

The solution: remember your password.

 

[rupe45]

Lost Photos, iTunes, iOS 5, password

There is something wrong with iTunes or iOS 5 upgrading. Apple need to address this. I to lost valuable family pictures when up grading to iOS 5. I did not use a password on the backup but was asked to supply one. I did not choose to go to iCloud at the upgrade time because I wasn't comfortable with the new environment or the limit of 30 days storage of photos.

Did Apple only test in their environment? It is now time to admit some bug problem so many others do not loose photos and contacts.

 

[stylinexpat]

Anyone know of any way to recover lost pictures? If the phone had been synced before with an apple computer surely there has to be some file one can search to find

 

[michaelpirretti]

Ok, so I found a solution to my problem (may be problem specific). But after updating to iOS5 I immediatly did the iCloud backup and synced my phone. It wasn't until later that I realized my photos were gone. I then made a foolish decision of restoring my phone a second time only to find out the only backup I had was AFTER the iOS5, thus a backup with no photos. I then remembered the iCloud backup was directly after updating to iOS5 the first time, so I went to Settings>iCloud and saw a backup with a 1GB photo storage. At first I couldn't backup from this iCloud cache because it said it was "incomplete", but I woke up this morning only to find out it was complete (it compelted a 5AM when the intial update was about 7:30 PM). I then restored from the iCloud today and everything is as good as new.
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[charlituna]

This kind of thing is why I wish there was a feature, especially when trying to do an OTA update that would alert you that you haven't down a backup in the last 24 hours and it is possible that you might lose all your stuff. Then makes you actively confirm that you want to go ahead (with the default being cancel update).