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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?

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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.

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  • +1 for export>edit>import. The 'replace all' function of text editors is about as easy as it gets.
    – Mr. Buster
    Jan 11, 2012 at 1:08
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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:

  1. Open the CSV, XLS, or XLSX file as Google spreadsheet
  2. Edit > Find and replace
  3. Select the option Search using regular expression
  4. Find ^91 will search all numbers in sheet beginning with 91. In replace, put +91
  5. Similarly, do for all contacts of yours with other country codes
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  • I'm afraid that method doesn't work to add the appropriate country code, as the OP needs. Unless the appropriate code is already there, and just the "+" is missing -- the question indicates rather otherwise (country codes completely missing). However, if all contacts are from the same country, and the code is missing everywhere, replacing ^([0-9]) with +91-\1 (assuming "+91" as the appropriate country code) would do it :)
    – Izzy
    Apr 5, 2013 at 7:28
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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.

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How about Easy Prefix Country Code?. This adds country code to all contacts selectively.

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