Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue I'm having with my Iphone 4s. Yesterday morning my phone started showing texts received as only the phone numbers, and not as being related to the sending contact. Many of my contacts in my phone book are also now only numbers and no names. However some contact names have remained with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Some of the remaining contacts are people with android phones, while others are contacts with iphones. I've done the reprogram thing dialing *228 and done two hard resets with no luck. FWIW, I have Verizon. I plan on going by there this evening if I can't resolve this myself, but I'm hoping someone on the wise tech board might be able to provide some insight for me first.

TIA!

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by CAD703X

Liberty Island

Member since Jul 2008

77854 posts

Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:17 pm to Eureeka181

if your phone is screwed and you did an icloud backup, you should be able to restore from that 'blob'.

dont get me started on why in the hell apple doesn't automatically sync your contacts to a web-based contact import/export system.

it would make things a whole lot easier than backing up a big clump of binary data that can only be restored by having a blank iphone handy.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by colorchangintiger

Dan Carlin

Member since Nov 2005

30979 posts

Posted on 9/29/14 at 1:50 pm to Eureeka181

This happened to my wife's 4S a few weeks ago. After 2 days all her contacts magically reappeared.

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by Eureeka181

Baton Rouge

Member since Jan 2009

1810 posts

Posted on 9/29/14 at 8:39 pm to colorchangintiger

Thank you both. I did back up to the cloud, but I'm unsure of where to go from there. I suppose an internet search might be helpful in that regard.

Verizon was of no assistance this evening. Maybe when I wake up tomorrow all will be magically returned to normal?!?!

Page 1