Jan092012

I can I restore lost contacts of a jailbroken iPhone that had to be restored?

Kendall asks:

I have a jailbroken iPhone which had to be restored, therefore losing all data on the phone. Before restoring, iTunes would always back up the phone, so surely my contacts must be somewhere on my Mac?! All normal recovery programs don’t seem to work…


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  • Anonymous January 9, 2012

    iTunes should have made a backup of your iPhone from before the restore. If you right click the iPhone in the left hand iTunes menu, It should give a option for restoring from backup.

    Are your contacts stored on your SIM by any chance? You can try to Setting >> Mail, Contacts, Calendars >> Import SIM Contacts.

  • Anonymous January 9, 2012

    may be this guid can help
    http://www.sleepers.net/jailbreak-iphone/how-to-upgrade-in-itunes

  • Kendalltcoleman January 10, 2012

    iPhone Back Extractor doesn’t show any back-up files before the restore. Not on my Sim either. I’ll try sleepers though. 
    Thanks :)

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