ICloud won't sync all contacts from iPhone to iCloud

Hi,
So I have 1090 contacts on my iPhone 4S. I have iCloud set up and when I go to iCloud.com or when I sync my MacBook Air (Lion) with iCloud only 590 contacts are merging. I have turned iCloud on and off on my iPhone to see if this would trigger a new sync but the same amount of contacts seem to merge. Does anyone have any idea how I can get all my contacts from my iPhone to merge to iCloud?
Thanks so much community!!!
Cheers,
Colin

I know this is an old thread, but since I had the same issue and finally solved it, I'll post this for future reference.
I had over 300 contacts on my iPhone 4 but only about 60 were showing up in iCloud. Saw lots of discussion, tried a few things, but here is the fix that worked for me.
1. Got to Settings
2. Go to iCloud
3. Slide Contacts option to Off (You'll get a warning, make sure you choose to save the Contacts on your phone)
4. Close out of Settings
4. Wait 5 minutes or so
5. Go back to Settings\iCloud
6. Slide Contacts option to On (You'll get a message asking to merge Contacts, say yes)
7. Go to Settings\iCloud\Storage & Backup
8. Select Back Up Now
That should do it. All of my iPhone Contacts are now in iCloud

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