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Help MAYDAY - lost phone, 200 Gmail contacts gone

Apache

Well-Known Member
Apr 29, 2010
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Sugar Land, TX
So I foolishly lost my DI last night. Because all of my Contacts on the device are set as Gmail/Google Contacts, I wasn't worried, figuring they're all in my Gmail account anyway. But as I take a closer look at my Gmail Contacts, about 250 or so are gone! How could this be???

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is a seriously stressful situation
 
So I foolishly lost my DI last night. Because all of my Contacts on the device are set as Gmail/Google Contacts, I wasn't worried, figuring they're all in my Gmail account anyway. But as I take a closer look at my Gmail Contacts, about 250 or so are gone! How could this be???

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is a seriously stressful situation

What probably happened is someone picked up the phone and manually deleted all the contents. This would then be reflected back in the contacts in Gmail.
 
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Thanks for input fellas.

This is what I did:
1. Find it using Google Latitude (saw that it was still somewhere at airport)
2. Slept overnight
3. Found it again using Google Latitude -- a mile away from airport, ostensibly in the back yard of some house
4. Activated Mobile Defense to lock device
5. Noticed many Contacts were gone, also all Google Tasks were gone
6. Called VZW and cancelled service

This is what I shoulda done:
1. Activated Mobile Defense asap. This woulda locked the device without turning off the wireless signal -- i.e. I coulda still tracked it.
2. Either recover it or simply replace it with no data lost.

Mobile Defense is a good app that I had had the foresight to download onto my device. My mistake was not having utilized it earlier.

Oh well, live and learn.

Thanks again, man oh man has this been a stressful experience!
 
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