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Old 01-26-2016, 03:42 PM   #1
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Question Which application is this one?


A friend of mine seems to be unable to find out which program was installed to use her Hotmail account in her phone. She knows that she looked in the Google Play Store for (probably) "hotmail", and that it was just some "generic email client". She also says that the program doesn't show a name, nor anything that has a name that could be searched for again (e.g., reinstalled after a phone reset).

I have this [screenshot] of the program's icon on the app menu, as it is showed there. Can any of you recognize which program is this? It doesn't seem, to me, that it is the default Android client. The icon is different from the icons I have seen in other phones (which doesn't mean much, and that's why I ask here too...).

Any clues? Simple steps to find out which program it is might be useful too.
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Old 01-26-2016, 07:23 PM   #2
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It's not the default--that's called "Mail" and the icon is a plain white picture of an envelope with red lines representing the flap. (I don't use it, I use K-9 Mail.)

I took a quick look in the Play store and I think it could be something called "Boxer." Going to Settings-->Apps-->Downloaded should enable you to find out if my guess is correct.
 
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Old 01-27-2016, 05:18 AM   #3
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It is so strange that "Boxer" is not showed in apps results for the search "email" and also for the search "hotmail". Indeed its icon is very close to the picture.

And I'll tell my friend this way to find out about installed programs. I guess she does not know that one.

Thank you!

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My friend just sent me her phone model and android version. If it's relevant at all, here it is:

Samsung GT-S5360B
Android 2.3.5

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Old 01-27-2016, 05:57 AM   #4
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My friend told me now that in the list of programs it is called "Emails", exactly like shown in the screenshot; and its version is 1.3. But a search for "Emails" in the Google Play doesn't give any result with this name. I guess it may ceased to exist? It was installed 3 or 4 months ago, at most.

I give up, and now I have one more small reason to never have any Google's droid OS. F-droid would have traces of its existence, at least.

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Old 01-27-2016, 12:40 PM   #5
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Simple steps to find out which program it is might be useful too.
long-pressing any desktop or menu icon gives me the choice "App info", which also allows me to uninstall the app.
 
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Old 01-27-2016, 08:32 PM   #6
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long-pressing any desktop or menu icon gives me the choice "App info", which also allows me to uninstall the app.
Really!? That's something I think that several friends that have complained about eventual Android problems with me don't know this... useful (and not so hard to try to find).
 
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Android 2.3.5
That's quite an old version in Android years. In the intervening time, applications might have changed their names or their icons.
 
Old 01-28-2016, 02:09 PM   #8
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Really!? That's something I think that several friends that have complained about eventual Android problems with me don't know this... useful (and not so hard to try to find).
come to think of it, it might depend on which home screen you use. i use nova launcher.
but a similar option should be available on most home/launcher apps.
 
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That's quite an old version in Android years. In the intervening time, applications might have changed their names or their icons.
The fact is that the phone still work, is useful and has everything exactly like most brand new phones would have today. And if people had better habits with their phones and their batteries, they would last much longer than they usually do.

And that's and "old" Android, indeed. But being old with around 5 years (or less, depending on a "lucky buy") is just one more reason that I will never have an Android OS.
 
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come to think of it, it might depend on which home screen you use. i use nova launcher.
but a similar option should be available on most home/launcher apps.
I have no idea what you talked about here: different app launchers. But I don't need to know, and don't want to know more. Anyway, the lack of standard things in an OS like that is just a huge usability bad aspect, IMHO.

The app may have changed its name, but whoever did it was "good" enough to make it completely lack all things we¹ could think to find about (him|her|them). It is funny.


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Old 01-31-2016, 09:43 PM   #11
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Any halfway decent app, when you open it, should offer a menu that includes information about the name and version of the application. The information is usually under "Help" or "Settings," but may be buried elsewhere, sometimes many fathoms deep.

The more deeply such information is buried, the more energetically you should consider choosing another application.

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