Chagne Display name on Hotmail account on ICS?

FreeRangers · June 28th, 2012, 11:53 AM

Let's say my email is FreeRangers (@) hotmail.com when I send an email the recipient sees the sender as Freerangers. On Gingerbread I was able to change this so that the display name didn't show Freerangers, but showed whatever I wanted it to (John, for example). On ICS I have my hotmail account set up as an exchange account (because that is the only way I could delete emails form my phone and they would also get deleted form Hotmail's servers). But I also tried just setting up hot mail as a normal hotmail account, but I still can't change the display name.

tawheed · July 3rd, 2012, 05:22 PM

Any luck with this? Same issue on my S3.

tawheed · July 3rd, 2012, 07:44 PM

Did some digging and it turns out that you can't change the display name on the device. There must be something weird with Samsung because with my HTC One X it would send emails from my proper display name and with the S3 it sends as the email address account name.. Wish I could get this solved, very frustrating.

FreeRangers · July 4th, 2012, 11:57 AM

Well that kinda sucks. I know I could do it in Gingerbread. It's not a huge issue though (more like a minor annoyance).

tawheed · July 5th, 2012, 02:25 AM

It's pretty damn annoying, it should just work.. I've been googling like mad and am unable to come up with any type of fix.

vet4snak · July 5th, 2012, 02:47 AM

i just bought my S3, super expensive. and i got the same problem as you guys. very frustrating..why is a phone of this caliber have such stupid issues?! i dont want to use market apps

GVO · August 14th, 2012, 03:19 AM

Hi,

I had the same problem and discovered 2 solutions / work arounds.
(I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S2.)

The problem you mention (not being able to change the Display Name) appears when using Samsung Social Hub if you set the hotmail, gmail, or other email-account as a premium account.

The 2 solutions / work arounds are:
* use Samsung Social Hub and DON'T set your e-mail (hotmail, gmail, etc) as a premium account. You lose 'push' functionality. This does not apply to "Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync" e-mail.
* use the hotmail (or gmail) app.

These aren't the only strange things on Samsung (Galaxy) smart phones. But that's for another topic.

gavin watson · December 3rd, 2012, 08:59 AM

There is a solution to this here.