"Hi.

I read on this forum that if data is deleted it's not realy gone, it's just been removed from the systems index.
But the question is how to recover the contacts and what applications to use?

The phone in my case i belive is a HTC S730 and i think it's running Windows mobile 5 or 6.
I dont have to much information on the phone since it's a customers phone.

The thing happend this way, user was using a pc cable to sync with outlook, but then turned to activesync to sync over the mobile network, but when the settings were entered the user got the question that the contacts/calander and so on needed to be removed, he answered yes to this, and it deleted it all.
And the user had not dont a PC sync for ages since it stoped working and now he is in a bit of a pickle, he dont want to send the phone for data recovery to IBAS since that could end up costing him around 10.000SEK or more depending on the work they need to do.

So im asking you people here if you know a better way?
Or is this just something that he will have to live with?

God i hope someone has a good solution for this, must be a common thing now days.

Regards
Honken
Sweden"

"hey man...am facing the same issue...except tht those contacts got deleted from phone n never were on the pc....so is there any way of recovering it ????
please please please reply!!!!
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"I have a SIM manager feature on my S743. My contacts are saved to the SIM card and to the phone as Outlook contacts. When I delete the contact, the number remains on the SIM card. Not sure if anyone else's is that way."

"HI d rally didnt get the steps. Can you please help to explain more setails on the step"

"This thread has bounced all over the place. I'm not sure what you are asking. Please provide info on which device you have, what OS you are running and describe the problem. I will try to help. If it is lost data on the device and in Outlook, also let me know what OS you are running on your PC."

"My phone was HTC3300. I start 1st to sync using Microsoft Activesync. But unfortunately its sync from my desktop to the HTC3300 and my desktop was totatlly empty. As a result it deleted all my contacts in HTC. I'm using Windows Mobile 6.1 and Windows XP SP3. Can you please help if you know how i can recover back all my contatcs? "

"The contact list in my HTC diamond phone disappeared unknowingly just after syncing to my pc outlook. While syncing it only took six contact numbers which is still in the phone but rest is not listed in the phone and in my pc as well as. I only have the contacts i saved in my Sim.
About one and a half month ago i synced the same phone and took the contacts to the outlook and again transferred it to another HTC touch which is now damaged and deleted from outlook. So is there anyway i could recover this one and a half month contact list from the outlook or any other alternative.
Would really appreciate if you could suggest a solution as soon as possible.
Thankyou in advance"