2nd email icon on home screen

[Denise51]

I have 2 email accounts on the stock email app on Galaxy S3. I managed to create a separate icon by going to widgets and dragging the email icon to home screen and selecting the email address for that one.

So I have 2 email icons on my home screen.

Problem I am getting is that I have notifications enabled but when an email is received on this second icon (2nd account) the number appears on the first account I made. Is there a way for notifications to be received independently. For example if First Account recieved 3 and the Second Account received 2 the number would appear on each icon?

As is now they all go to the first one, and I have to choose which account. I thought the idea of having a second icon would illuminate that.

Hope this makes sense

 

[Denise51]

Since I had not replies, I have been doing some googling. On the stock email app it looks as if it is not possible to create 2 separate email accounts with 2 separate email icons on the homes screen.

Does anyone know of an email app that can do this?

Or do I have to use another app so I can have these separated?

Thank you

 

[nigsy]

The problem is that the stock email app; isn't really an 'email' app it's just a programme that can receive emails from various email providers (bear with me here!)

So you set up 2 separate hotmail accounts (for example) and run them both through the stock app; no probs; set up 2 separate icons, again no problems; the issue comes when the app receives an email to either account, as they are not separate apps; rather just on instance of the same app it will not be able to split them out; so it will either report a message on both icons or default to the first icon/widget created.

I'm not sure you can do what you are asking?

 

[Denise51]

The problem is that the stock email app; isn't really an 'email' app it's just a programme that can receive emails from various email providers (bear with me here!)

So you set up 2 separate hotmail accounts (for example) and run them both through the stock app; no probs; set up 2 separate icons, again no problems; the issue comes when the app receives an email to either account, as they are not separate apps; rather just on instance of the same app it will not be able to split them out; so it will either report a message on both icons or default to the first icon/widget created.

I'm not sure you can do what you are asking?

Yea thats it nigsy with the stock email.

Hence I was asking if anyone knows of an email app that can do this, split them

 

[tommo47]

Hi, I'm able to do this on the HTC One using the stock email app and I'd be surpised if it's device specific.

If you longpress on your homescreen and select 'shortcuts' have you not got an icon 'mail inbox', I have on the HTC, and if I tap that icon I can select one of the accounts in the main app, which puts a shortcut on the homescreen for that account. Just repeat that for each account. I've got four shortcuts and they show the individual inbox count with the main app icon showing the total.

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[Denise51]

Hi, I'm able to do this on the HTC One using the stock email app and I'd be surpised if it's device specific.

If you longpress on your homescreen and select 'shortcuts' have you not got an icon 'mail inbox', I have on the HTC, and if I tap that icon I can select one of the accounts in the main app, which puts a shortcut on the homescreen for that account. Just repeat that for each account. I've got three shortcuts and they show the individual inbox count with the main app icon showing the total.

It doesnt seem to work that way. You have a separate icon on the home screen but all the incoming emails - the numbers show on the default one and not on each separate one.

So for insance you get the notification saying you have an email, on the home screen the number shows on the default email icon but the email may be for another account so you still have to press that icon to see which email account inbox it is. Which sort of defeats the object of having separate icons for each email address.