So i have a few issues here, and luckily I had the foresight to manually backup all my stuff before restoring as I do not trust the auto backup, I like to know where everything is for certain.
Anyway after restoring, and then restoring from the auto backup I had made, my pictures were blank, even though it had a slot for all of them. And my contacts were only on icloud and not in hard memory on my phone.
I read somewhere to go into settings>icloud> and then turn off contacts, select keep contacts and then turn it back on and select merge. I did this and then when I went into contacts on my phone it says "all icloud contacts" at the top but it is all blank. I just about $h*T myself thinking all my contacts were gone, but I went onto icloud.com and they were still there so I quickly exported them to my computer for safekeeping.
So..........................
1.How do I get the contacts back onto my phone from icloud without manually re-entering them? (I will do it if necessary but I'm trying to avoid the tedious process)
2. Where did my pictures go? I have them backed up on my HD and can put them in if necessary, but why would it have a slot for them all in photos and then just have a blank ".jpg" instead of the picture? It obviously knows there were pictures there and how many were there, but why are they blank?
Anyway after restoring, and then restoring from the auto backup I had made, my pictures were blank, even though it had a slot for all of them. And my contacts were only on icloud and not in hard memory on my phone.
I read somewhere to go into settings>icloud> and then turn off contacts, select keep contacts and then turn it back on and select merge. I did this and then when I went into contacts on my phone it says "all icloud contacts" at the top but it is all blank. I just about $h*T myself thinking all my contacts were gone, but I went onto icloud.com and they were still there so I quickly exported them to my computer for safekeeping.
So..........................
1.How do I get the contacts back onto my phone from icloud without manually re-entering them? (I will do it if necessary but I'm trying to avoid the tedious process)
2. Where did my pictures go? I have them backed up on my HD and can put them in if necessary, but why would it have a slot for them all in photos and then just have a blank ".jpg" instead of the picture? It obviously knows there were pictures there and how many were there, but why are they blank?