Hello all,
I'm the happy owner of an Hero since one week but I have an "issue" with the Weather widget, the widget itself and the info under the clock in the home page.
I live in France but I work in another country, I've not enabled auto data roaming as it costs a lot ... Problem is that at 6:30am for instance the forecasts are updated, then I cross the border, data mode becomes disable and then 6h after, the logo still shows a moon and the 7°C based on 6:30 update. And it stays in this useless state until 6pm when I leave the roaming mode returning to France.
How can I make the 2 widgets showing estimated forecast (looks like 3 days are available) even if no update is possible ? Before the Hero I was using a Winphone with SPB Mobile Shell and the weather widget was taking care of the time of the day to change the logo/forecast even not connected ...
If not possible with the HTC, could you point me to a weather widget more "clever" than this one (beautiful widget maybe) ?
Thanks in advance.
PS: Title should be "display updates" ... sorry.
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I have noted that lately my local weather (based on GPS-location) is on the other side of the world from where I am. Is there some way to force this or reset it so it uses my GPS location?
I had a similar problem.
My location was stuck at erronously showing Bucharest, Romania.
Later I saw that Bucharest was listed in the World Clock page.
When I deleted it from the World Clock list, Bucharest dissappeared from the weather list as well.
Weather page correctly shows my hometown weather info.
Weather page shows weather at your current location and also in every location you have in World Clock locations. You can scroll through them with up and down gesture. Problem is it remembers the last page, so if you scroll to whatever non-current location, it will be displayed next time too.
Thanks -- since it changes locations between my home and my office, going home it did correctly change to that location. Now, this morning, I note that it is correctly showing my office location again. I appreciate your feedback and will remember to check the world clocks if it happens again.
location sevice isn't based on gps data because then it would be accurate. I don't use it because it is off by about 20km from where I live. I added my city manually and that works for me.
i had to manually set it as it kept on thinking i was in lima (peru?) rather than glasgow.
now its got me as glasgow most of the time but it is a little strange in that the fixed weather for glasgow is always a little different from "my location" glasgow...
(edited to include screengrabs to prove i'm not crazy...)
accuweather seems to be quite wrong when it comes to european weather. i tried germany and switzerland and accuweather was hardly right wih its forecast.
atm it wont even let me update, giveme a connection errorbsite.
I just have the same problem the first time yesterday. Is it global? My location became an unknown city in a far away time zone. Weather and clock (home page big clock and task bar hh:mm) all switched to the new location and new time. Very confusing.
my location is about 10 miles away but when i go elsewhere (uni, gf's) it updates it correctly. soooo strange any ideas how to solve it
Yep, I experienced the same problem this morning with the latest 1.66 ROM. Was showing Zagreb as my location, removed the battery for a couple of minutes and problem solved.
Can anyone shed any light on this mysterious fault.
I live in North Tyneside UK and my home screen shows North Tyneside as my local weather. However the location is not in my weather locations and will not update. Consequently the weather on my home page has been snowing for 3 weeks.
I've tried a soft reset to no avail and tried to add North Tyneside to the weather list, but its not in the towns and cities list for the UK.
I've also tried changing the weather page to another city but the home page automatically reverts to North Tyneside 3 weeks ago.
Location services are activated and all the other cities in the weather list update automatically.
StrangeSpy4 said:
Can anyone shed any light on this mysterious fault.
I live in North Tyneside UK and my home screen shows North Tyneside as my local weather. However the location is not in my weather locations and will not update. Consequently the weather on my home page has been snowing for 3 weeks.
I've tried a soft reset to no avail and tried to add North Tyneside to the weather list, but its not in the towns and cities list for the UK.
I've also tried changing the weather page to another city but the home page automatically reverts to North Tyneside 3 weeks ago.
Location services are activated and all the other cities in the weather list update automatically.
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Have you changed the clock location? (Click the clock and select a city). That's what determines which weather region to show on the home tab.
johncmolyneux said:
Have you changed the clock location? (Click the clock and select a city). That's what determines which weather region to show on the home tab.
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Already tried that, it works fine if you wish to set a location, but if you travel around abit like me. Its better to select the "My Location" setting which doesn't appear to work.
StrangeSpy4 said:
Already tried that, it works fine if you wish to set a location, but if you travel around abit like me. Its better to select the "My Location" setting which doesn't appear to work.
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Ah - there's your problem. My location is basically crap. It works in some places, but not in most. It will always show the last location it succesfully got the weather for. Personally, I've never even seen it work, so I've disabled it completely.
I just have my hometown weather on my clock, and my regular travel places on the weather tab.
johncmolyneux said:
Ah - there's your problem. My location is basically crap. It works in some places, but not in most. It will always show the last location it succesfully got the weather for. Personally, I've never even seen it work, so I've disabled it completely.
I just have my hometown weather on my clock, and my regular travel places on the weather tab.
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Thanks johncmolyneux,
Looks like i'll have to wait for a fix, and live with the clock location.
Thanks.
Strangespy4
you can add cities to the database with an application called weather city database editor and the correct accuweather code.
I have the same problem. My location works for a while and then freezes and won't update. The other cities I have set are updating just fine. After soft reset My location starts working again but after a while it freezes back. I couldn't figure out so far what triggers that. Any sugestions?
Roaming ??
I went to Italy for some skiing on Januari 16th, and found that Location Services worked sometimes but now always. Manually updating the weather didn't work either when it wasn't updating automatically. Then sometimes after a couple of hours or the next day it updated again.
However, I also found that not all providers in Italy offered reliable Internet connectivity, so maybe it's related to the combination of Provider and Internet connectivity. After all, (at least as I have understood) Location Services uses the GPS coordinates and the Internet connection to find your current location and then download the weather details.
The weather on the home page with v1.5 you could add locations with a map search. I noticed that with v2.1 the map point location 'tool' is not there. I am trying to load certain locations to my weather and 2.1 version doesn't list any cities like version 1.5 did.
Is this a bug or a change? or am I missing something?
They expect you to know where you want to know the weather or else why would you want to know the weather? Confusing
Confusing, yes
Whether or not I know the weather is neither their business nor mine? I'd rather know whether the weather is more pleasant rather than not, in places i'd rather be....whether here or there.
author unknown. It's better that way.
sorry if I'm wasting time. Thanks to all of you who helped all of us who need "Eris and Android 2.1 for Dummies"!
All punning aside, I love the animations on screen. The rain drops had me nervous the first time they came up. The clouds passing by was neat. I think my favorite is the sunshine's aura.
There are TONS of complaints about the Eris weather widget. It's a flaky one for sure. We have three Eris's in my house and have yet to get all of them to work correctly, in spite of me spending lots of time on the phone with HTC. Mine actually works pretty well right now. My wife's would never display the correct city, but we could get close. After upgrading hers, it showed the correct city for the first time EVER...for a little while. The next day, it would only say "current location".
Sometimes your computer monitor makes a fantastic sounding board. As I sat here typing this, a thought popped into my head on the subject. Just grabbed the wife's phone (and some boob on the way by ) and went into settings>location and found that GPS was enabled, but network location was not. Turned on both and voila`...the correct city name popped up. Check your location settings. That's all I got for ya...I hope it works.
D Dave
I have another issue with the HTC weather/clock widget. I've reloaded this new ROM 3 times already to see if there was an issue with installing other clock/weather programs but I have not been able to fix it.
On my home screen, the weather shows correctly (current location) and updates much quicker than the 1.5 ROM did.
When I tap the clock, by default it goes to "Desk Clock" Where it shows the time, weather and across the bottom you can choose between the world clock, alarm, stopwatch and timer.
The problem I am having is that the weather in this screen is stuck on Akron, OH. While I don't have anything against Akron, I don't particularly care about the weather there (its 640 miles away). I've deleted the location in the weather widget settings but every time the "Desk Clock" loads, sure enough, Akron, OH weather is displayed.
Anyone else with this problem?
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The problem I am having is that the weather in this screen is stuck on Akron, OH. While I don't have anything against Akron, I don't particularly care about the weather there (its 640 miles away). I've deleted the location in the weather widget settings but every time the "Desk Clock" loads, sure enough, Akron, OH weather is displayed.
Anyone else with this problem?
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Have you tried deleting the stock widget and then adding the htc weather widget and setting a certain location where you live or current location? When you add the new widget it asks what city or current location you want it to default to. I got tired of seeing it set for 14 or current location instead of the city so I just set it to Baltimore as its the closest major city.
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Have you tried deleting the stock widget and then adding the htc weather widget and setting a certain location where you live or current location? When you add the new widget it asks what city or current location you want it to default to. I got tired of seeing it set for 14 or current location instead of the city so I just set it to Baltimore as its the closest major city.
hope this helps
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I'm not having any problems with the stock time/weather widget on the home screen. It's the desk clock app that also shows the time. If you tap the clock on the home screen it takes you to the different clock, alarm, stopwatch, timer apps and the desk clock app shows the time, date, and weather. It is here that the weather only displays Akron, OH. My home screen updates as expected and about 5x faster than the 1.5 ROM.
The weather doesn't auto update for me. I had it set to update every hour, but it only update when I visit the weather tab.
I set it to be manual since auto update didn't work as I wanted.
If I update the weather at night, usually 9pm or later and the icon changes to the moon, the weather icon will change to be the sun after midnight. I've noticed this at least a couple of times now.
Anybody else notice this?
Yep. I noticed it with both a cooked ROM and the stock one. I'm not really sure it's a ROM releated thing, but more of an htc bug, at least regarding that fact that it doesn't auto-update on the device front page.
the switching to sun after midnight is because it uses the last forecast for the next day. look at the icons for 5 day forecast you will see one will be missing on the right, and the one that was "tomorrow" is now set as today, and since the 5 day forecast always shows daytime images, thats why it switches to sun.
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the switching to sun after midnight is because it uses the last forecast for the next day. look at the icons for 5 day forecast you will see one will be missing on the right, and the one that was "tomorrow" is now set as today, and since the 5 day forecast always shows daytime images, thats why it switches to sun.
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I guess they don't care about night owls like me..
Mine doesn't. I have to manually update it even though I have the weather in home screen. This is stupid. It's there a way to update like hourly?
kennyk09 said:
Mine doesn't. I have to manually update it even though I have the washer in home screen. This is stupid. It's there a way to update like hourly?
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Yep
How?
How?
Think mine does as well.
There are times I'm not paying attention to the weather and the temperature # will change on the widget without me opening the app and manually refreshing.
Have seen it happen on at least 2 occasions that I can recall. Don't really use the weather app that much in the first place
My weather widget doesn't update. I've heard it might be a bizarre issue where it doesn't update in the EU region. Possibly a GDPR confirmation missed at one point. I didn't want to try this method for my reasons, but you could try setting your phone region to India, for instance, creating the widget and letting it detect your location. If that succeeds, you can revert to your region and the thing should then work, in theory. Let me know if you succeed.
I not working ,you can set up automatic update at night. Between 23 and 7!! Who need update when sleep.
I use Google widget At a glance and its working without any problem. Everyone have it in widget - Google
Only option I have is overnight crap. The weather is so unstable in this part of the world. I need to be able to update at least hourly, automatically of course.
Even if it does update during the night, at 6pm your widget will still be showing weather from 7am
I tried "simple weather & clock" by difer, which almost made it. I realized if you use 3rd party weather app, the time on notification bar stays on, in home screen. Which is annoying because I only want 1 big time shown on weather app that also allow me to access timer and alarm. Who needs 2 of same time shown on home screen? I rather have defect stock weather app, looks neater at least..
I also have the clock always in the status bar. Except for when a notification arrives, or right after unlocking it. It's connected to the default launcher and I'm using the Poco Launcher. I need my app drawer
If you don't want the clock in the status bar, you could use the MIUI clock only widget, and then just a separate widget for the forecast.