Sync iphone contacts to mac

I am trying to sync all of my contacts on my iPhone to the Adress Book through iTunes on my MacBook Pro, but can't seem to get them all to transfer. I've tried everything I know how to do, and can seem to reach no satisfactory result. Either my contacts on my phone are deleted, or only a few transfer to the computer. I want them all to transfer over, so that when I get my 4S in the mail I can easily sync everything over again. And not just because of the new phone, I just want all my devices to be universal in their content. Can someone please help me?

I have the same problem. My contacts are getting synced only partially to the Address book. While syncing trough cable everything was working fine. Then i tried iCloud, and suddenly all of my contacts, calendars etc doubled. So i removed iCloud from all my devices, including the Mac. Now the syncing isn't working well: while syncing all of my contacts, the pictures related to some contacts won't get synced. I tried to delete one contact in the address book, just to see if it get's synced if it's not there. But no, it's not syncing missing contacts neither. Apple help!

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