ICloud doesn't Sync, lost all contacts on iPhone

I have a PC, iPhone and iPad on which contacts, reminders and calendar are turned on in iCloud.
Everything used to work fine.
I missed a meeting on Thursday because it did not snych into me iPhone.
I noticed contact changes were not synching.
I turned of Contact Synching on the iPhone, selected keep contact on iPhone.
All contacts were erased on the iPhone.
Turned synch back on and nothing downloads to the iPhone
I checked iCloud on the web and the contacts are there.
Thoughts anyone?

Update: Powered iPhone off, back on and the contacts reappeared. Still not synching.

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STEP 2: Go Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars --> Slide down to contacts --> Default Account -- > chose on my Iphone.
This is how you can prevent such incidents in the future.
The only Risk is that you need to back up your phone continuously on your Desktop or Laptop so that in case you lose your phone, you can restore your info to another phone from your back up.
You can also back up your << Back up FIle >> from your Desktop or Laptop on an external USB. ( more secure also):
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Windows XP stores all of your iPhone backup files in this location:
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Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 back up the iPhone files here:
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Please stop yelling.
efaw wrote:
DOWNLOADED I CLOUD
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