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I got a Galaxy S2 as an upgrade from my HTC Hero around January this year. My phone contacts have always been synced to my Gmail account and the backup worked since I got all my contacts on my SGS2 from my HTC Hero. However, I flashed a custom ROM on my SGS2 and since then only 14 of my contacts have been retrieved. When I try to manually sync the phone with Google it still only shows the 14 contacts. I visited http://google.com/contacts and to my surprise I only have the 14 contacts there as well.

How can I fix this problem? Do I have to flash it back to custom rom or is there any other way?

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Please don't use [SOLVED] or other markers/formatting on your questions. If you found a solution simply post it as an answer to your question (you can even accept your own answer). – eldarerathis♦ Feb 2 at 19:51

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Via your desktop computer, go to the Contacts section in Gmail. Click the MORE button and then RESTORE CONTACTS.

You'll be shown a dialog box where you can pick a particular time to restore to within the past 30 days.

That should restore your contact data.

After that just sync your device.

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Thank you spark for your help! But that's not how I got my contacts back. I got my contacts back by importing from my SIM-card... Even though I have always chosen to use google.. – user27493 Jan 30 at 17:44
@user27493 Please create a new answer as to how you solved your problem. After that, accept your answer so the question can be completed. :) – geffchang Jan 30 at 19:32

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