Edit Android Phone Contacts on Computer with Android Contacts Editor

There are diverse series and families of Android mobile phones from Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Sony Ericsson, LG, Lenovo, etc., which are tremendously popular with numerous students as well as people from different lines of work. Android phone provides users with lots of powerful and convenient functions and contact is one the basic constituent part. If you’ve just returned from studying overseas to work where you used to live, you might have a long list of contacts to add on your device.

But inputting the large group of numbers on the phone keyboard would be slower compared to typing on a computer keyboard. Hence adding contacts on a computer is more efficient and helpful. Besides, when your friends or family have changed their names, numbers or addresses, you need to edit the contact information. Provided that you could also edit them on the computer, it’d be saving you a lot of time and bringing you a great deal of convenience.

To perform a quick and accurate editing for your Android phone contacts, you can have a try with iPubsoft Android Desktop Manager (for Windows 8/7/XP/Vista) or Android Desktop Manager for Mac (for Mac OS X 10.9 or later), which is professional in helping Android users to transfer contacts, text messages, videos, music, applications, eBooks and many more from Android mobile phones to computer for backup or easier managing. With this helpful and reliable software, all the Android phone contacts can be saved as editable TXT file on computer.

Since it comes with both Windows and Mac version, you should choose the right version of the software downloaded and installed on your computer. Below is a Windows-based user guide showing you how to export Android contact information to PC and edit on PC directly. Mac users can also refer to the guide. It works on almost all Android-based devices, including Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, ZTE, Sony Ericsson, etc.

How to Edit Contacts /Phone Numbers from Android Phone on PC?

Step 1: Connect your Android phone to the computer

In the first step, you should download and install the Android Manager on your computer. Double click on the shortcut icon from the desktop to launch it and you will get an interface asking you to connect your Android mobile phone to the computer via a USB cable. Just link your phone to the computer and once the connection is successful, you will get the interface like below. The model, state, system version, storage and more information of your phone will be shown in the main interface.

Note: If it is the first time to run this software, you need to enable USB debugging on your phone. If you did it before, you can skip to the next step.
(1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging".
(2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".
(3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".

Once the USB debugging is enabled, click "Allow" on your phone to allow the program super user authorization when an Superuser Request pops up.

Step 2: Preview and select contacts

All files in your Android phone will be displayed in clear categories on the top menu. You can select the Contacts tab and choose "All Contacts" from the left panel. Preview all the contacts saved in your phone on the right window and then click the button of "Backup" to export them to your computer instantly.

Step 3: Export the selected phone contacts

Specify an output location where you want to save the exported contacts on the pop-up window, and then you can hit on the "OK" button to transfer these selected contacts to the specific folder immediately.

After a few seconds, all the selected Android phone contacts will be exported to the specific output folder as editable TXT format. Now, you can go to the output location to view the exported contacts and edit them as you want.