Help Is it really not possible to increase email size?

[heycal]

Getting very close to getting this phone with Verizon, but one thing I'm having trouble with while experimenting with the phone in the store, a feature which is very important to me since my aging eyes are making things harder to see:

Is it possible to increase the font of the actual body/content of emails in Yahoo and hotmail, etc? Increasing the display size changed many things all over the phone, including the subject matter and sender information for an email, etc. -- but strangely, not the email content itself. Same with DEcreasing the display size. It made the email sender info smaller and allowed many more emails to be visible in my inbox, but the actual words in the emails themselves did not change size. It seems set at one particular size and nothing I can do can change that.

It's the same with my current LG Lucid when I increase the font size, and it also happens when I use a third party app called Big Font. Almost everything everywhere else gets much bigger -- but not the actual email text.

Is this just some weird flaw and impossible to fix? I noticed the iphone didn't seem to have any problem increasing the size of the actual email text conducting the same experiment with that phone, so this just an LG problem, or an android one, or is there a way around this?

 

[stef7]

I use K9 mailer which is highly configurable. Try it on your lucid.
Go into global settings and all parts of the email and the lists are sizeable.

 

[heycal]

I use K9 mailer which is highly configurable. Try it on your lucid.
Go into global settings and all parts of the email and the lists are sizeable.

Thanks. Just installed and tried this several times, but for some reason it didn't work. I changed "message body" to larger, but it didn't take and when I went back to settings it had reverted to default each time. Strange...

 

[stef7]

Aren't you having fun?

Try this... make your setting changes.
Exit the app.
Power down and reboot.
Open the app.

This works. I've verified it.

 

[heycal]

Aren't you having fun?

Try this... make your setting changes.
Exit the app.
Power down and reboot.
Open the app.

This works. I've verified it.

That seemed to do it! Thanks, Stef.

I consider it a strike against the G2 over the iphone or other phones that can increase text size everywhere without having to use a third party email thingy like this, but it's good to know I can do it if I need to.

 

[stef7]

For every "strike", I think I've shown you there is a way to do what you want / need to do.

You want a device to handle all this out-of-the-box with inherent functionality, and I doubt it very much that the iPhone, the Samsung, or the HTC, or a Motorola will meet that criteria.

For the latter three, it's simply because we are talking pretty generic Android stuff here... Sure LG manipulated some of the core Android SW, but in ways that merely improve of build upon the experience.

So they say.

Anyway... I've been waiting for you to comment on how awesome the G2 is and you never really give the device the thumbs up. Hard to say if any of these approaches are solutions that you could be HAPPY with.

I'm not going to try to convince you that the G2 is the device for you, and I haven't responded to your inquiries in an attempt to do that.

Is the iPhone for you? I can't really say.

 

[heycal]

For every "strike", I think I've shown you there is a way to do what you want / need to do.

You want a device to handle all this out-of-the-box with inherent functionality, and I doubt it very much that the iPhone, the Samsung, or the HTC, or a Motorola will meet that criteria.

For the latter three, it's simply because we are talking pretty generic Android stuff here... Sure LG manipulated some of the core Android SW, but in ways that merely improve of build upon the experience.

So they say.

Anyway... I've been waiting for you to comment on how awesome the G2 is and you never really give the device the thumbs up. Hard to say if any of these approaches are solutions that you could be HAPPY with.

I'm not going to try to convince you that the G2 is the device for you, and I haven't responded to your inquiries in an attempt to do that.

Is the iPhone for you? I can't really say.

One of the very reasons I was leaning towards the iphone in the first place was to avoid this kind of neurotic comparison and analysis on my part. You just get the latest and best model iphone and you're done with it. That and the fact that I switched to Mac from pc and love it, and love that next time I need a new laptop, I'll just get the latest version of the one I'm using now instead of comparing a dozen different laptops from several different companies.

And there's many things I love about the iphone too. Seems the best out of the box phone I've seen, and the best looking and functioning too. So the decision should be easy, right?

Until I look closer, and I realize I can't do this, that, and the other thing with the iphone, and the screen is so small, and the battery is not impressive, and so on.

And so I end up right back where I am now, torn between very different things, each with their own drawbacks and advantages...