NEW UPDATE--ERASED CONTACTS

Did you have your contacts saved to google and not phone?

I read on some obscure post that after the upgrade it can take up to 2 hours to re-sync your Google contacts.

I do know that on leaked versions I installed it was about 10 to 15 minutes to re-sync.

I received the OTA update last night and did not loose my contacts. I am using the HTC sync to Outlook 2003 on my PC. I did a sync a few months ago and my contects where still there before and after the OTA update. I did a new HTC sync after the update and it completed ok.

One other issue is my bluetooth devices were missing after the OTA update. When I turned on bluetooth on the phone and the device in my car, the phone had a popup screen to enter the 0000 code for the device. The device connected and that was all that was needed to be done.   

the contacts actually "reappeared" about 15-20 mins after the reboot...THANK GOODNESS!

thanks for all your help though!

Thanks Ripley, I just done moving all my contacts over (after reading this) to gmail and then edited and re-synced.  Took some time but I'm feeling safer now.   I'd hate to have to input all my contacts again.

Don

I may not have the best way to manage contacts but when I set up my phone I found it pretty effective. I synced the Phone with Google for a couple of days and then went into my Gmail Acoount on my PC and set all my contacts up the way I wanted them (it's simply easier to type on the computer). Then I synced the phone again with the intention that if it screwed up my phone contacts that I would blow them all away if the process screwed them up (it didn't) and repopulate them from G-mail. From there I now manage them from my phone (as Google Contacts) and sync them as a backup. They are bset set as Google contacts because you can export them and manage them from your PC as well as the phone - good security!

btw you can copy your "Phone" contacts to G-mail. See my post above.