Phone constantly deleting all my contacts

[FlugleWaffle]

Hello there! I haven't considered this much of a problem for the past two years until it ramped up to every few days. Every now and then, the contacts on my iphone just get totally wiped. Gone. This happened once about a year ago. Once 6 months ago. Once 3 months ago and now it's practically twice or more a week. This is obviously very frustrating and I'm at a loss for what to do. Restoring backups for some odd reason don't work and always set me back to some date in 2013. The contacts don't even reappear when I do this. If anyone has any solution besides updating my phone's operating system, that would be greatly appreciated. Honestly, the last thing I want to read is that I have to update to iOS 7 but if there is no other solution, well then I'm out of options. Just so you know, my specifications are as follows:

iPhone 4s

16gb storage

Roughly two years old

Running iOS 5.1.1

If it makes a difference, there is absolutely zero damage to the phone. It could practically be sold as new.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!

[RelentlessAF]

Why such an old version of iOS? You could probably find a cloud storage service to sync your contacts to. Similar to how Android syncs it's contacts and the like to cloud storage.

[connorpiper]

Do you use it until it goes flat?

[FlugleWaffle]

The reason I have such an old version is because I absolutely, under no circumstances want anything above iOS 5. iOS 6 removed one of my favorite apps and iOS 7 looks and feels absolutely awful when I tried it out. I have yet to figure out how to use the iCloud service or whatever it is called for two main reasons. One because it's so horribly made and two, because I can't find my password for it . In response to Connor, I have no idea what that means.

[connorpiper]

The reason I have such an old version is because I absolutely, under no circumstances want anything above iOS 5. iOS 6 removed one of my favorite apps and iOS 7 looks and feels absolutely awful when I tried it out. I have yet to figure out how to use the iCloud service or whatever it is called for two main reasons. One because it's so horribly made and two, because I can't find my password for it . In response to Connor, I have no idea what that means.

 

It means, do you use it till the screen shuts off because of the battery being dead. (Like 0%) (Going Flat is a British-English term)

[FlugleWaffle]

It means, do you use it till the screen shuts off because of the battery being dead. (Like 0%) (Going Flat is a British-English term)

Ah, I see. No, in most cases I do not and will attempt to plug it in before it would run out of power. That is also another one of my problems, but far less annoying. My phone now starts shutting down at around 25-30% remaining.

[connorpiper]

Ah, I see. No, in most cases I do not and will attempt to plug it in before it would run out of power. That is also another one of my problems, but far less annoying. My phone now starts shutting down at around 25-30% remaining.

 

Because a clock reset is usually caused by a loss of power. Like does it do a normal shut down, or just go black?

[FlugleWaffle]

Because a clock reset is usually caused by a loss of power. Like does it do a normal shut down, or just go black?

I may have missed something along the way but I have never seen it do anything other than a normal shutdown. For context, the most recent contact wipe occurred when I turned off my phone as a courtesy while in a theatre. This was about four hours ago.

[connorpiper]

I may have missed something along the way but I have never seen it do anything other than a normal shutdown. For context, the most recent contact wipe occurred when I turned off my phone as a courtesy while in a theatre. This was about four hours ago.

 

I think when your phone is turned off the memory is erased. Technically the battery should power the phone while it is off to keep the data safe. 

I think there may be something wrong with the phones internals. I would try to never power off the phone during a week and then the next shutdown every night. 

My PSP does this, if I don't charge it, it will erase all the internal data.

[FlugleWaffle]

Seems like a tedious fix but better than updating my software, I will try to get my cloud storage working too. Thanks for your help. If you have any other suggestions, please feel few to post them.