How to sort out my complete mess of contact (Android)

[Hen_Dawg]

Hi,
So through various backups, restores with different methods I'm left with about 2000 contacts on my phone, with many people duplicated up to 10 times!!
Total mess

Before I flash my next ROM and do another backup/restore I want to know how to sort this properly. I basically don't know what overrides what, if you see what I mean.

I can delete via gmail on the PC as that is quick but will that do anything or will the next sync just put all the phone contact back in gmail? I have Mybackup Pro which I'd normally use for contacts (as well as everything else). I have a contact remover app to assist if necessary. What order should I do this in?

Any help here could potentially save me hours of deleting only to find they come back. Thanks

 

[Hen_Dawg]

Yeah, time to goto http://contacts.google.com and have a bit of a sit down :/

Hallelujah!
I didn't know about that, it's got a 'find duplicates then merge them' feature. Brilliant.
I'll also export a .csv for good measure.

Thanks all. Just the info I needed Much time will be saved.

However, I just synced my gmail contacts from my phone and numbers I've saved on the phone are not there. I realise google won't sync them. So I exported to SD card, them imported. Choosing the 'import to google' option and bingo. They are now all there so I can sync again on phone. Sort out on PC with the contacts.google.com and sync more more time to have a clean, mess-free, easy contacts list once more!