Personal Contacts Finally Restored to Sidekick Users

Personal Contacts Finally Restored to Sidekick Users

Microsoft began restoring data Tuesday to users of T-Mobile Sidekick mobile phones who lost data in a server failure.
Microsoft said it was still sorting out how to retrieve still photographs, notes and other information lost in the incident with Sidekick data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft.

T-Mobile and Microsoft have not said how many customers have been affected but there are an estimated one million Sidekick users in the United States and that they should have a data recovery plan.

Microsoft stressed on Tuesday that the data restoration effort "is only necessary for the minority of customers who lost data from their Sidekick devices."

The US IT company giant advised Sidekick users who lost data to log into the T-Mobile website and use a recovery tool to restore their personal contacts.