my iphone contacts are not syncing up to my google contacts

When you are creating the contact, since you have On the iPhone and the Google contacts, you need to make sure what group you are adding the contact to. If you are adding it to the phone group, it doesn't sync to Google. That also explains why when you remove the Gmail account, all of the Google contacts delete from the phone, but you still have contacts created on the phone.

I'm not sure, but you can look as you create the contact to make sure it is going where you want it. I do not use Google or sync to more than one place, so mine are all on my device. I sync to my Outlook on the computer, but there is still only one group of contacts. Check in the Settings area for contacts. Since you have more than one group, a default setting may be available. I do not see one on my phone.

yes you can change the default contact account to gmail. which is a wise thing to do becuase by using gmail as the central repository of all your contacts you can access those contacts using any of your devices and email clients. on your iphone choose settings>mail.contacts, calendars>scroll way down to Contacts (it's on a gray background) and below that select >Default Account>you will see On my iphone And the name of your gmail account>select your gmail account. a tick mark appears. Now everytime you create a contact on your iphone it will automatically sync to your gmail account. and visa versa. And the same goes for deleting a contact.

Glad you found it. Like I said, I do not have more than one account, so I do not see those choices. I figured there was a choice if you have more than one.