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How to Edit Android Contacts on Computer( Windows/Mac)

Jan 08,2014 14:21 pm / Posted by to Android Backup Topic
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As the closest competitor to iOS, Android system has been used by lots of leading mobile phone makers around the world, while iOS is the specific operating system for Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV. Now Android phone has a higher degrees of monopoly than iPhone, and it is largely related to the lower price as well. Meanwhile, the competition among various brands of Android phone has been more and more intense, especially for those famous brands, like Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC, and so on. In order to gain more market share, Android smartphone manufacturers improve and develop more features to attract consumers and satisfy the increasing demands of them. But no matter how many functions have been added to the latest mobile phone, they haven't devitalized some fundamental equipments of a cellphone, like contacts.

Why and How to Edit Android Phone Contacts on Computer?

As the most important data for all mobile phones, contacts list plays a vital role in communicating with others. For example, if you are a businessman, you may have stored significant phone numbers and company addresses of your clients. With those contacts, you will be able to maintain business continuously. While, when you have saved too many information on your contacts, it will be a great trouble to manage them properly. As you may take large risks of losing them or getting them wrong due to mistaken edits and operations. Then it seems to be more convenient to edit contacts on computer.

But how can we achieve this? As we all know, contacts are saved on the internal memory or the SIM card of our Android phone. And they are forbidden to be modified on PC without restriction, as what we often do to music, photos, videos, and other media files. In that way, I suggest you to try an assistant program. If you dislike those cumbersome procedures, I think this Amacsoft Android Contacts Editor could be the right choice for you.

In fact, this program is far more functional than editing contacts on computer. With it, you will be able to backup everything on your Android phone to Windows/Mac computer without any loss. And all contacts will be accessible to be edited, added, deleted as you want. What's more, you can directly send messages to anyone on PC, or install free apps and uninstall useless apps on your computer. To get more features of this program, you'd better try it by yourself. The options below are two free trial versions for you, you can choose to install the Windows or Mac version according to your PC system.

How to Run this Android Contacts Editor on Computer( Windows/Mac)

Note: As this guide will take the Windows version as an example, Mac users can act as the similar steps to operate this program on Mac.

Step 1. Link Android Device to PC and Open the Program

First of all, correctly connect your Android phone to computer via a USB cable. Then launch this program with double click. A few seconds later, this program will show a menu as following to remind you to enable USB debugging on your Android device. After you finish this process, please press "USB debugging opened", so that your mobile phone will be detected soon. Then this program will install USB driver on your computer, and this process will last for a while, please be a little patient.

Step 2. Scanning Android Phone Data

After installing a right USB driver on PC, this program will automatically scan your phone data. Then you can get an interface as shown. In this step, you will be able to get detailed info of your Android device, including model, state, system version, power, etc.

Step 3. Preview and Edit Contacts as Needed

According to the folders on the top of the panel, you should enter the "Contacts" area, and press "All contacts". Then you will be able to preview all contacts with name, number, messages number, etc. Now there are several options for you to modify, add, delete or backup contacts as wanted.

Write in the End

This Amacsoft Android Contacts Editor can be perfectly compatible with all Android phones. No matter you use a Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC or other types of Android phone, it will be worked well on your Windows or Mac computer. After reading the above introduction, you can see that this software is both effective and practical. What are you waiting for? Just download one and run it on your computer!

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