I Cloud one account two phones

Just upgraded to iphone 4 GS from 3 GS. Two phones, my husband and me...have one itunes account in my name and had both old phones with icloud and using my id, password etc. Now with the new phones, I have mine connected and working with icloud (contacts, photos etc have been upgraded) but I cannot get the second phone to accept my password to set up the i cloud account. The backup from itunes worked but that is out of date since we have been using icloud....
Is there a change that you can't have two phones with the one account, and if so, how do I get around this. We have one email address (not the icloud one) and one itunes account.
Anybody have an easy solution to this problem.....pleaselllll

Welcome to the Apple Community.
It shouldn't be a problem, you should be able to have multiple devices on a single account. Try deleting the account and re-entering the data.
Of note, I'm not sure you are aware, but iTunes and iCloud are different accounts, you can share an iTunes account and hence music, apps, books etc, but have separate iCloud accounts, thereby having separate contacts and calendars etc.

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First of all, the solution I would like to have is for Apple to allow for selection of iCloud accounts per application, i.e. Contacts to one, Photo Stream to another. I believe this would be the most straight forward solution for the problem we are facing.
Since this is not an option I came up with a workaround. I was most interested in solving this for Contacts, so this is what I tested for. Now I have all 3 devices with the same contacts.
1) Turn off iCloud for Contacts on all devices. On the device that has the Contacts list that you would like to propagate to all others select to keep the contacts, and on the others select not to keep them.
Note that the current backups still exist on iCloud, so in case something goes wrong you can still turn the iCloud for Contacts back on to get your current Contacts back.
2) In iTunes, sync All Contacts with the phones, starting with the one with the Contacts content you chose to keep.
From this point on, the 3 devices should sync contacts with each other.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4108
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HT4436 How do I set up separate iCloud's and apple ids for two phones on one account?

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To fix this, you need to migrate your data to a separate iCloud account. Do not delete any data from either phone until this is done or it will also be deleted from iCloud and the other phone, and will be lost.
When you do this any data you sync with the shared iCloud account such as contacts is merged and will appear on all devices connected to the account. To fix this you both need to have separate iCloud accounts (you can continue to share the same Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and app stores).
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HT4910 Have two phones with same apple id as I got one for my hubbie .he tried to back up his numbers in I cloud . Our contacts have now merged and neither can delete from our phone without it coming off the other . Any ideas how we can stop this

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