Reset/Sync Up to iCloud from iOS

Is there anyway to reset/load the iCloud Contact list form a good known source?
i.e. One way synch, from an iOS device to iCloud (The way we used to be able to do it with MobileMe)?
My current iCloud Contact list is messed up and I want to reset/reload it with a good know list from one of my iOS devices, but I can't find a way to do it, or at least it is not obviouse to me.
Any help is greatly appreciated

I responded to you here > https://discussions.apple.com/message/16437576#16437576
In the future, please do not start duplicate topics. It makes it that much harder to help you. Thanks!

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Reset/Sync Up to iCloud

Is there anyway to reset/load the iCloud Contact list form a good known source?
i.e. One way synch, from an iOS device to iCloud (The way we used to be able to do it with MobileMe)?
My current iCloud Contact list is messed up and I want to reset/reload it with a good know list from one of my iOS devices, but I can't find a way to do it, or at least it is not obviouse to me.
Any help is greatly appreciated

I did.
I can't talk for rezab, but my original problem was that after syncing gmail, exchange, Address Book, and my iphone I had many (like hundreds) of duplicate entires, so to wrangle it wanted to start over with a "good" list of contacts. Problem was that iCloud had my messed up set.
After wiping all of the Contacts from iCloud.com (and this takes some serious patience if you have thousands of contacts), I was able to get my clean start.
And for anyone else that would benefit from hearing my detailed steps:
1) I had my "good" list of contact on my mac address book.
(my guess is you could use gmail contacts or others equally easily, but I had mine in Address Book.)
2) on my iPhone disable "Contacts" from syncing against iCloud (Settings > iCloud > Contacts-Off)
3) choose "delete from my iphone" to give yourself a clean slate on your iPhone
4) after confirming all the contacts were gone, I connected my phone to my mac and manually synced the contacts from my local Address Book:
- iTunes > iPhone > Info > Sync Address Book Contacts (checked) > All Contacts
- then clicked "apply" then "sync" buttons.
5) Meanwhile, I went to https://www.icloud.com/ clicked into the Contacts section and started deleting.
6) The web app loads the contacts fairly slowly if you have a lot and you can only delete the ones that are selected so it may take some time and patience. Finally, I got rid of all the contacts on iCloud
7) back on my iPhone, I confirmed the "good" list of contacts is loaded, then you simply turn back on iCloud sync for Contacts: (Settings > iCloud > Contacts-On)
8) After about a minute or 2 the contacts on iCloud.com was correctly showing my good list - DONE!
Sorry for the excessive details, but it's the Web...it will be useful to someone.

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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
From your post I see that you're experiencing issues with iCloud syncing your reminders on your iPhone. To troubleshoot this issue I'd like you to please follow the steps below.
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Make sure that you're using iOS 5 or later. If you meet these requirements but your issue continues, try installing the latest version of iOS supported by your device.
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I have to say that, even after doing all that, my problem seems to recur at random with no obvious trigger - and it is even more bizarre because, like you, not all calendars or events are affected. Sometimes, different events within the same calendar are duplicated whereas others aren't!
And just how the iPad seems to pick up events which no longer appear in iCal is beyond me - presumably somewhere in a plist or old cache file but, as I said, no-one has any idea what or where!
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I've searched through hundreds of queries and answers, but cannot find a similar problem ..but maybe I simply haven't looked hard enough.
Question on behalf of my good lady ..and I've been tearing my hair out over this for WEEKS..
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