In my contacts it says google beside all of my contacts except for a few. Why is this and is there a way i can change them to either where they all say google or phone contact?
Google contacts are sync'd with your gmail contacts. Phone contacts are not. Add them to your gmail then in the contacts setting select show only google.
I've got at least 2 hours of switching contacts over within gmail. Im dreading it, but once it is done, I will like having it all backed up in google's cloud.