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How do I change the account which stores a contact?

Right now, a lot of my contacts are associated with "Backup Assistant". I no longer have Verizon so this is useless (and it throws a lot of errors, presumably because it is no longer authorized to talk to the Verizon server) and I would like to switch all my contacts to be stored with Google. If I have to I will just delete each contact and re-create it with the new assocation, but is there an easier way to do this? If I try to tap or long-tap on the "Backup Assistant Contact" header when I edit the contact, nothing happens.

Also, if I do have to re-create a new contact, is there some way to create the new contact on Google first, then delete it from Backup Assistant? When I try to create the new contact first, attempting to delete it from my phone tells me I am going to delete it on multiple accounts.

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First, export your contacts. From the Contacts app, touch the menu button and select Import/Export. Then choose to export to SD. Then from the SD card, transfer the file to your computer (I used Dropbox). At this point I simply deleted all the contacts off my phone. I get an error notifications that sync had failed because too many contacts had been deleted, but when I tapped on it, it gave me the option to go ahead and delete them on Google.

Then I went to Google Contacts and imported all my contacts. Then I did a bit of cleanup, and everything got synced back to my phone.

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