Help Chagne Display name on Hotmail account on ICS?

[FreeRangers]

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]

Any luck with this? Same issue on my S3.

 

[tawheed]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

There is a solution to this here.

 

[ThatOneRearEnd]

In case anyone's still interested, here's the real solution:
You need a rooted phone and a SQL-Editor installed on it.

Navigate to /data/data/com.android.email/databases/EmailProvider.db. Select the Account-table and search for the column "sender name". Here you can edit the value to nearly anything you want. Save, exit, stop the email-app via settings and launch it again.

It works not only on ICS but also on JB...

 

[macnero]

Thanks ThatOneRearEnd but when I navigate to the folder /data/data/com.android.email/databases it says that it is empty. I can't find EmailProvider.db anywhere. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ThatOneRearEnd]

It is there, at least if you created an account within the app in the first place.

 

[giorojasj]

Thanks ThatOneRearEnd but when I navigate to the folder /data/data/com.android.email/databases it says that it is empty. I can't find EmailProvider.db anywhere. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Any luck with this... I have the same problem and it is kind of anoying...solutions? My phone is not rooted...so I guess that is why i cannot access EmailProvider.db....answers pleaseeee!!!

 

[ThatOneRearEnd]

Yes, that's the problem...

 

[giorojasj]

Is there any way I can work this around without rooting my phone?
This is very anoying...a very expensive phone that doesnt do what is suppose to do!!!

 

[ThatOneRearEnd]

It's not a phone fault, it's a software one...

I can't think of any other solution than either root your device or go and buy a different one...