So your iphone died and it killed your contacts list? It is not easy to recover it but not impossible either:<\/p>\n
Find your last backup file: c:\\users\\xxx\\AppData\\Roaming\\Apple Computer\\MobileSync\\Backup and look for your contacts file called 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442.mdbackup <\/strong>which is a plist file containing sqlitite v3 encoded content stored in xml.<\/p>\n For the lazy people, there is a useful tool to extract the content as plaintext: http:\/\/insend.de\/ or http:\/\/www.reincubate.com\/labs\/iphone-backup-extractor-how-extract-files-iphone-backup-windows\/#\/res\/i\/labs\/iphonebe\/3_wizard.png<\/p>\n If you export from sqlite to Excel and use and dated fields, this query is vaery handy:<\/p>\n select strftime(‘%d\/%m\/%Y %H:%M’,1257961471, ‘unixepoch’);<\/p>\n Alternatively, get Excel to do the work (Converts to GMT):<\/p>\n=(((A1\/60)\/60)\/24)+DATE(1970,1,1) [taken from this site<\/a>]<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"