T-Mobile’s Sidekick LX 2009 is an all-in-one device designed to keep you in touch with your friends and family, whether that’s through voice calls, online chats with AIM or Yahoo Messenger, email, or social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

T-Mobile Sidekick users can now start restoring their contact lists, lost Oct. 5 due to a massive data glitch. On Monday, Microsoft/Danger said it hoped to start restoration later this week, so today’s announcement came as the first pleasant surprise of the entire episode.

While a million Sidekicks have reportedly been sold, it is not know how many lost data due to the crash. Microsoft describes those only as a “minority” of devices.

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Most of the users definetly have already restored or recreated their contacts, to-do lists, and all the other informations.

According to Microsoft:

“Beginning today, log into the My T-Mobile website, where there will be a recovery tool to restore contacts you may have lost during the recent service outage. This tool will enable you to view the contacts you had on your device as of October 1.

“With a few clicks and a confirmation, you will be able to restore these contacts to your Sidekick. If you have recreated some of the same contacts on your Sidekick since October 1, you can choose to keep both sets of contacts, merge them, or just keep the set of contacts now on your device. You may also edit any partial or complete duplicates on your Sidekick after restoration,” the company said in a statement.

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“We continue to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to restore your data. We’re making solid progress on the next phase in this restoration process, including your photographs, notes, to-do lists, marketplace data and high scores.”

No date when the second phase will start was announced, however.