Rookie Inquiry

[NJ Fred]

When I exit an application - email, Play Store, et al. - is it best to hit the back button until I return to the home screen or can I simply hit the home button.

If anyone replying would be so kind, please tell me the benefit-detriment of proceeding one way or the other.

Lastly, I note that the stock email app reverts to the last mailbox I opened. Is there a way to get it to default to the screen whereon all my mailboxes appear?

Many thanks for your help.

 

[fatboy97]

When I exit an application - email, Play Store, et al. - is it best to hit the back button until I return to the home screen or can I simply hit the home button.

If anyone replying would be so kind, please tell me the benefit-detriment of proceeding one way or the other.

Lastly, I note that the stock email app reverts to the last mailbox I opened. Is there a way to get it to default to the screen whereon all my mailboxes appear?

Many thanks for your help.

Either back or home works just about the same... they both leave the app running in the background. After you exit your app, if you don't want it running in the background, long press the Home button until your list of apps appear... swipe your apps left or right to terminate them... you can scroll up and down through this list and it is safe to terminate these apps... it's not like older ROMs that it was bad to terminate certain apps, it only list those that are ok to stop.

Email... the best way is to leave it at the list of all your accounts before pressing home... that is the only way I know of for it to start at that screen.

 

[NJ Fred]

Thank you.

 

[oldAGE]

NJ Fred -
Honestly, so far, from Eclaire to Ice Cream Sandwich, Android foundation email apps are one of the worst applications I have seen. Yeah, I am being a bit dramatic but remember that many of us in the consumer space have come from the likes of Blackberry. For me, on my S Galaxy, I run the latest version of K9. Talk about user control flexibility. It has it's quirks (like I can't stop it from processing a Drafts folder on one of my yahoo.com mail accounts). But you have application and app behavior control to the Nth degree...

I don't know what their ICS variant looks like. I have a Droid RAZR as a test and will return it in a few days whilst I decide what I do about this whole Verizon thing....

Good luck.
AGE

 

[NJ Fred]

I am opting for Kaiten mail which is the pay version of K9; I like that contact pix display.

I am running Mail Droid, too, till I make up my mind.

Thanks for your message.

 

[CharlieL3]

I froze the default EMail app and just run Gmail and Yahoo Mail and keep the two accounts separate.

 

[Zman1001]

I had K9 mail, and I now have Kaiten (K10) mail, which is the paid version.

I have noticed many times that when I open it up, it gives me a list of folders to open up, which I like.

I have no experience with Mail Droid as I can not see paying $20 for the paid version, when Kaiten is only $5. Even when I used K9 which is free, I still could not see paying $20 for the paid app, so I never downloaded the free version of MailDroid. I will say the one thing I do like about MailDroid, is that I have seen him be very responsive to comments on forums (can not remember which ones), and I like that in a developer.

I do not think you can go wrong with either K9 / Kaiten or Maildroid for your choice of email apps.

 

[rpitts9999]

Is the Yahoo mail App working properly again yet?

I used it for a while and then it started not giving notifications.

 

[kt081801]

I have a rookie question, am using the stock email app, how do you send a group email? until ICS update, I was able to do that but can't seem to find a way after the update. Thanks for any help