All of my Notes are gone after updating the ios 9 and I don't get notifications when I receive texts?

I updated my iPhone 5s to the lartest version of ios 9 and everything is messed up. When I go to Notes it says that I have zero folders. I haven't updated Notes yet. If I remember correctly, the first day all the notes were there. I backed up my phone before updating buy apparently I had notes off for backup so iCloud isn't a solution to recover it. What should I do, how can I recover my Notes. The same thing keeps happening with Reminders but it recovers after I turn off my iPhone then turn it back on.

Another problem I had is with messages. I have all the notifications on for messages and I turned it on and off a few times but it didn't work. So the problem is that I don't get notificatins when I get messages. The only way I see it is if I go to the app and tap on the person who sent it. But after I leave the app then enter again, the message that was sent isn't there anymore. Please help! This update ruined my phone and there are so many problems with it.

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