All my contacts are gone in my iphone!!!!

[jrm]

Hello gurus:

My buddy has a first generation iphone. This morning he went to make a call and ALL his contacts were gone (a couple hundred or so). They are not in his Address Book on the mac, nor do they show up in his "Mobile Me". ANy ideas on how to recover the info on his sim card?

[peterpappas]

Twice in the last week I have opened my iPhone to find my Contacts gone. Once it began by first eliminating the names in my Phone "favorites." (Strangely the phone numbers were still there.) When I went to Contacts, I saw it was completely blank. The second time I watched my iPhone contacts disappear while I was editing a contact on my MacBook. (A MobileMe sync began - when it was over, my contacts were gone from iPhone!)

On both occasions I have been able to get them back. I posted a "how to" on my blog with some screen shots. http://bit.ly/l60UY Hope it saves someone else a moment of panic. I'd love to hear from Apple what's going on?

Peter Pappas
http://peterpappas.blogs.com/