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My Location weather doesn't work?

My Location feature doesn't update for me, it always has error. Do you have to go outside or something for it to connect? Everything else works fine, I can download data for cities if I specify them. If I click on the clock and then choose the home city to my hometown (Austin, TX) it then shows the weather in the little box under the clock, but it doesn't show it in the entire background.

try to turn on the wifi first, I think it's a bug
u have to set up the wather wallpaper to show it on fullscreen, its easy to find in the menu

As stated above with some of the newer builds you need to have wifi activated and then either download weather update through 3G or wifi and it should work.

How to force local weather location

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.

Weather Widget bug? or change fr. 1.5

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?

JTF2007 said:
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.
hope this helps

WalkingTaco said:
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.

Removing a weather loaction?

On the home screen in sense, it says im somewhere im not.
Its never my acctual location (Its over 100miles away....)
When I go to the weather tab > remove location
The location isn't listed!
Even though it clearly shows my location, and this other location on the app..
What the hell do i do?
thanks everyone

im curious to this as well it seems i have an "invisible my location, location" haha. I always have to actually input my city in the time and then i get the actual weather for my city.

Home Screen Weather Issue..

I have always had my town which is outside Pittsburgh, Pa on my home screen, in fact if I traveled it would update to where I was. Now it has New York City and when I update does nothing. How can I fix this?
Thanks

Press on the clock so the location settings come up for 'World Clock' then ensure you have is selected as 'My Location' instead of any of the other cities. This setting is what also controls your weather area also if you are on your weather tab, you can swpe your finger up or down on your main weather animation until you see the eqather based upon GPS location. between these 2 actions you should get back to normal. Hope this helps

Fixed... Thanks a Billion..