How to clean, then merge Phone contacts with google?

[LondonBernie]

We all know how to find and edit Google contacts (Please do not explain that again).
However 1. How can you view ONLY your phone contacts on Google?

2. Or is it best to edit phone contacts on your mobile first and then Sync?

3. Say you clean your phone contacts on your mobile, what is to stop google adding back on your phone all the phone contacts on your Google account, as it normally does, creating loads of duplicates?

4. Some talk of turning off syncing, however, what if you want to clean and sort your Google phone records, and then turn to sync back on?

 

[psionandy]

1) your phone contacts are stored on your phone... They are not stored as google contacts.
You may also have sim contacts, these are saved on your sim. Google does not have these either.

Your phone can read contacts from the phone memory, the sim memory, or the Google contacts database, which syncs with the cloud.


2) the phone contacts dontd sync. You need to edit them on your phone. You cant do it on the cloud.

For google stored contacts, you can edit them on your phone, pc, mac, Chromebook, smarrt tv or wherever you can see them and then they will sync to any of your google devices.

3... It appears that you are saving contacts in the phone memory and also as google contacts. Hence duplicate contacts.