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I am using Samsung Galaxy S2. Is there any automated way or app to change all my contacts with appropriate country code into canonical form.
I just found that lot of my contact are there without the country code. And few apps like whatsapp, viber etc does not recognize the contact unless + is appended with country code.
Is there any better way to do it than editing all my contacts?
You can try syncing your phone contacts with Gmail, preferably into a group.
Then use Gmail's web interface to export that group into a Google CSV format, use a text editor to replace ",00xxx" with ",+xxx" (and do any other editing while you're at it) in the CSV file, and reimport into Gmail.
In case you want to append country code to your contacts or append +91, here is best way to do and be sure of it done:
Search using regular expression
^([0-9]) with +91-\1 (assuming "+91" as the appropriate country code) would do it :)
There is an Android app called Right Number (source available) to do exactly what you want. It reformats all the numbers to a canonical form, and then automatically adds the local prefixes whenever you do a call.
Disclaimer: I know personally one of the authors of that app.
How about Easy Prefix Country Code?. This adds country code to all contacts selectively.
