How to edit your Android contact list on PC using gmail contacts.

I have my android phone for over an year now. Initially I was very frustrated organizing  my contact list on the new Android phone. I had an  old java based phone and about 250 contacts in it. The only way to transfer my contacts was to copy it on my sim card and transfer it to my android phone. Delete all the contacts from the sim card put it back in the old phone copy remaining numbers and put it back in the android phone and copy the remaining numbers. I was okay with this activity thinking that I have to do it only once. But soon I found out that while copying from the sim card lot of information was lost. The names of people who had long names cut short because sim didn't support long name. Also, multiple numbers stored under a persons name on the old phone had multiple entries on the new android phone. I desperately wanted to cleanup all this. But editing hundreds of contacts on the touch screen was not easy. After tinkering for a week or so, I found a easy way out. I really wonder why I couldn't find any thing on google help. The catch here was to store the contact list on gmail contacts.Here is my easy  guide to perform this activity.


General GuideLines

1. You need to transfer all your contacts to your android phone.
2. You have to sign in into your gmail account on your phone.
3. You should have a SD card on your phone to export your contact list .
4. You will need to connect your phone to the internet (Wi-fi would be good) so you can sync your contacts on your gmail account. 
5. Open Contact list on your Android phone.Click settings button , and select  import/export and then     export your contact list on SD card. 

 

 

6. Now that you have backed up your contact list on SD card, go ahead and delete all your contact list. Yes you read it right, delete all the contacts.(NOTE:  Please make sure that your export of contact list was successful before proceeding with this step)
7. Open contacts, go to settings and select save new numbers to google.

8. In contact settings click Import contact list from SD card and import the previously exported contact list.
9. Now you should  have your contact list back.
10. Exit the contact application.
11. Now your phone has all the contacts ready to be uploaded to gmail contact list.
12. Go to android settings and click account and sync

13. Click on Google account and sync contacts.

This will sync all your contacts to your gmail account.It may take some time to sync depending on your internet connection and number of contacts.

You can now login to your PC and access your gmail account and check the contact list all your contacts. Now you can easily edit all your contacts from your PC.