since yesterday I've been having troble with my iphone.
and nothing I try, or anything I find/ read about online seems to be any help either.

it figures right after I decide "you know what? I'm happy with this phone. I don't need to upgrade. that it turns into absolute garabge!

all my photos have vanished from it.
if I leave the photo app open long enough they'll slowly start to reappear.
only at some point the app will just crash
and when I re-open it, the photos will all be gone again!
worst of all is when that happens after the hour long process of restoring all my photos. and just as it finishes restoring. POOF
crash
back to 0, try again.

I read that it can be caused by having too much space used up on the phone. so I deleted almost all of my apps and my browser history and now have about 6gb of space. still won't restore.

and somehow by deleting all those apps. I've screwed up my app store as well, and now I can't re-download any of those apps. and I can't update any of the handful of apps I left on the phone.

on top of this the phone seems to run increadibly slow now. taking almost a minute of staring at a blank white screen before any app can open.

if I was a smart person I would have backed up my phone to my computer.
only I'm too paranoid for that after having an ipod as a kid and having it be wiped clean any time I plugged it into a new computer. I never feel comfortable plugging apple products into new devices.
but now I don't have the computer I originally plugged my iphone into anymore. and I am scared if I plug it into my current computer I'll lose everything from my phone like what used to happen to my ipod.

not that it really even matters since I can't back up files that aren't there. and I can't get the photos to restore for me. so I can't back them up.

and everywhere I look for help I get told "oh delete some data" done "oh hard reset" done "oh, take it into a Vodafone store" live too far away so can't do that yet. "oh, try downloading this sketchy third party program" done, didn't work. tried another, but it only works for mac.
I can't find any actual help
I can't figure this out
and I'm just getting more and more frustrated.

UGH!