Sync Fail to update iCal and Contacts between iPhone and MacBook

I've recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) and iTunes (12.1.0.50). I am trying to sync my MacBook with my iPhone 5 (iOS 8.2) and iPad mini (iOS 8.2) without iClouds. In iTunes i've selected the All Contacts under Sync Contacts & All Calendars under Sync Calendars. Once again I am not syncing to iClouds but rather manually between the 3 machines. Since I've upgraded, my calendar and contact information is not being synced between the MacBook and iPhone. When executing the sync the process completes cleanly indicating syncing of contacts & calendar was successful. But when checked on iPhone they contacts haven't been updated. Any recommendations?

Simply on the iPhone in the iCloud preferences turn off the contacts sync. It will ask if u wanna delete or not the contacts on the iphone. You answer to leave the Contacts on iphone. After that proceed to delete all contacts from all u're other devices and the iCloud site. A way to do it fast is to deselect the contact sync on icloud options in every device and when asked tell to delete the contacts from device. When u're sure that all other devices contacts are clean turn again on the contacts sync on the iCloud preferences for each device and at last the iPhone. After few the iPhone contacts will be sync to other device so u'll have same Contacts on all device. In this way when u'll made a change on one of u're device all other will have same change.

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