HT204150 Why aren't my contacts showing up on iCloud from my phone?

Question

So, I am attempting to use the icloud feature to create groups. However, when I go on my icloud contacts, none of my contacts show up from my phone! My accounts are linked, etc etc. How do I get them to show up? The only thing that shows up is my name.
One odd thing that happened when I did the iphone ios version 5 update is all my contacts were erased. That really ticked me off. So what is it that apple and I cannot seem to work through? Is this a technical problem?
Update: starting to realize that I am adding all my contacts to the "on my iphone" list. So is there any way to quickly transer the on my iphone contact group to my icloud group so i can make more groups?
grumble grumble. >:/
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars and tap Default Account in the Contacts section.  Here, select iCloud as the default so new conacts are created in your iCloud account in the future (rather than in On My iPhone).
Then go to Settings>iCloud, turn Contacts to Off, when prompted choose Delete from My iPhone.  This will delete the iCloud contacts from your phone but not from iCloud.  They will be synced back later.
Next, download the app My Contacts Backup.  Use the app to back up the contacts on your phone (from the On My iPhone account) as an attachment to an email.  Send this email to yourself.
Go back to Settings>iCloud and turn Contacts back to On.  This will sync your iCloud contacts back to your phone.
Open the email you sent earlier and tap the attachment to add the contacts to your phone.  They will be imported to your iCloud account as you set this as your default earlier.
Finally, to avoid seeing duplicates of your On My iPhone contacts, open your contacts and tap Groups.  You can either tap the On My iPhone group until it's unchecked and tap Done (which will hide these from view); or, you can tap the other groups until On My iPhone is the only one checked and tap Done, then go through these contacts and delete them from your phone.  When finished, recheck the other Groups and tap Done.