Why aren't my contacts saving on my phone?

I recently purchased an iPhone 4 about a month ago. I've had this problem twice already. I'm probably just iPhone stupid, but I can't figure out why my contacts dissapear after saving them. I did, however, delete my phone contacts on my yahoo email account. That may be why they deleted when I plugged in my phone to my computer and connected to iTunes. I also tried restoring from backup, or whatever. But I unplugged it, started saving numbers again, and my phone only saved select phone numbers and other numbers disappeared. It's frustrating and I can't figure out why! I lost all of my contacts except for those people I have texted recently, because I remember what conversation I had with whatever person. Help!

No. but iCloud knows it should be able to resync your contacts from the gmail server when it restores your phone.

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So, I am attempting to use the icloud feature to create groups. However, when I go on my icloud contacts, none of my contacts show up from my phone! My accounts are linked, etc etc. How do I get them to show up? The only thing that shows up is my name.
One odd thing that happened when I did the iphone ios version 5 update is all my contacts were erased. That really ticked me off. So what is it that apple and I cannot seem to work through? Is this a technical problem?
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grumble grumble. >:/
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Go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars and tap Default Account in the Contacts section. Here, select iCloud as the default so new conacts are created in your iCloud account in the future (rather than in On My iPhone).
Then go to Settings>iCloud, turn Contacts to Off, when prompted choose Delete from My iPhone. This will delete the iCloud contacts from your phone but not from iCloud. They will be synced back later.
Next, download the app My Contacts Backup. Use the app to back up the contacts on your phone (from the On My iPhone account) as an attachment to an email. Send this email to yourself.
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Finally, to avoid seeing duplicates of your On My iPhone contacts, open your contacts and tap Groups. You can either tap the On My iPhone group until it's unchecked and tap Done (which will hide these from view); or, you can tap the other groups until On My iPhone is the only one checked and tap Done, then go through these contacts and delete them from your phone. When finished, recheck the other Groups and tap Done.

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