HTC File Desktop Manager: How to Edit HTC Contacts on PC?

HTC phones are gaining in popularity over the recent years for its ultrafast WLAN connection, BlinkFeed™ screen that displays important news, unread messages and match scores, HTC Zoe™ that enables users to make dynamic images, BoomSound™ that plays high-quality sounds and plenty of other appealing functions. Besides the entertainments and convenience we enjoying from the HTC mobile phones, we also suffer from many problems causing by the phone's usage. For example, your phone got formatted accidentally and had all of her contacts deleted. At that time, you may think if you would backup all the HTC phone contacts on computer. Other times when you need to modify your phone data, you may also wonder if there is a way to do this job on computer instead of doing it on the small-screen phone.

We can easily transfer files like videos, photos and music from HTC mobile phone to computer via USB connection, because these media files are saved in the external memory card in the phone. But for contacts information, which are saved in the internal phone memory and SIM card, we have to ask help from third-party software to analyze and extract these contacts from HTC phone. To save your time from trial and error, we kindly suggest you use 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 can be used as HTC files desktop manager to help you export contacts from HTC mobile phone to computer for managing and editing.

Download the software, and link the phone with the PC with a USB cable prior to running it. Click on the icon and a window will pop out with different selections on it. Choose the contacts you want to manage and perform the corresponding operations according to its simple but clear directions. In addition to HTC contacts, you can also import/export HTC text messages, photos, videos, music, eBooks, apps and more from/to Mac or Windows computer. Even, you can send text messages from computer to any phone number by using this tool.

Apart from that, the operations it performs are Read-Only to prevent data damage, and the interface it provides is user-friendly. Get this all-in-one package straightaway, for it’ll surely come in handy in many cases and will be of tremendous help! It supports all HTC series, including HTC One/Wildfire/Desire HD/sensation.

Tutorial on How to Edit Phone Contacts on Computer for HTC One/Wildfire/Desire HD

Step 1: Connect your HTC phone to the computer

After downloading and installing the contacts managing software 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 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: Select and export contacts selectively

All files in your HTC 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: Start to edit the exported contacts

After the transferring, all the selected HTC contacts are saved in the specific output location in editable TXT format. You can view them and begin to add, delete, modify, group or edit them immediately.