Weather Widget bug? or change fr. 1.5 - Droid Eris Android Development

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.

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Weather on HTC clock

I have just updated to the latest ROM and have gone back to the HTC clock now it isn't so sluggish. This incorporates weather but my town isn't recognised. So I just get my town name and no weather. Now on all the weather sites if I put in my town it just has the same data as Norwich so I'd be happy if it showed me the weather in Norwich when I am in Wymondham.
Any way to do this?
Cheers
Same problem here. Any solutions?
For some reason it doesn't seem to like wi-fi, are you connecting via your phone network? It seems a bit of a law into itself though, where I live it seems to update with no consistency, often claiming no data but at other times working properly. On the other hand while out for a drive in the middle of nowhere the other day I notced it was picking up and naming every town we passed, even if they consisted of 3 houses and a sheep!
Yeah, the same thing happend to me. I was driving to my cousin's (50mins drive), it was working beautifully - changing the location and updating. However, at home it's not working at all. At home I use wi-fi, but even when I go to work and switch to my network's internet it's still not picking up anything. Frustrating.
What's annoying is that if you go to the website which the app pulls data from (I'm not sure how I got it to come up right now but it was via the app) it has my town listed, which is what why I thought it might have something to do with data and location marking or somesuch.
On top of this, If I go to town (still in the same area as my phone says my home is) I get the info.
The exact same situation here. I've added my town manually to the list and it's working absolutely fine! Yet the current location (which displays the right name of my town) is displaying no data. So annoying!
So whenever I want to check the weather I have to go to the seperate widget to check and am not able to do that on the clock-weather widget.
I removed the original widget, and added it back with my explicit town, now works fine.
shame the auto-location one doesn't work though.
cdmackay said:
I removed the original widget, and added it back with my explicit town, now works fine.
shame the auto-location one doesn't work though.
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Holy Crap, that works!
Ah nice one! It works! Thanks
cdmackay said:
I removed the original widget, and added it back with my explicit town, now works fine.
shame the auto-location one doesn't work though.
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I can't seem to do this as my actual town is not on the list. Despite this sometimes it shows my town under the clock with the weather yet if I go into the weather widget application is says no data available!!!
ballandbiscuit said:
I can't seem to do this as my actual town is not on the list. Despite this sometimes it shows my town under the clock with the weather yet if I go into the weather widget application is says no data available!!!
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annoying; you'll just have to pick the nearest town that is on the list, and put up with the "wrong" name, at least until the main issue is fixed.
cdmackay said:
annoying; you'll just have to pick the nearest town that is on the list, and put up with the "wrong" name, at least until the main issue is fixed.
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What i found worked was leave it on 'current city' when your somewhere that is actually in the list, refresh the weather app and it will show the weather for that area. After that when you get back it keeps the weather up. Well thats what mine has done, where i live isnt in the list either but i know have weather when i didnt when i first turned it on.
Another point on this one, if it can't get any weather details it doesn't show you the date either!
Can you force the weather on the clock to just stay on a city of your choice?
ballandbiscuit said:
Another point on this one, if it can't get any weather details it doesn't show you the date either!
Can you force the weather on the clock to just stay on a city of your choice?
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Good question; I've assumed that if you add a city manually, when adding the widget, then it would stay on that city even as you move around. But perhaps it doesn't. Clearly I need to get out more
Didnt work for me. I had to do a data wipe. Worked fine afterwards. Although I backed up my SMS data so I didnt lose anything
cdmackay said:
I removed the original widget, and added it back with my explicit town, now works fine.
shame the auto-location one doesn't work though.
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I might be blind, but I can't find where you can remove the widget and add it back again?
matm said:
I might be blind, but I can't find where you can remove the widget and add it back again?
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It's not obvious until you've done it once, agreed
to remove widgets in the Sense UI, you touch-and-hold them for a few seconds, then drag them down to the "Remove" area that has appeared at the bottom, and which turns red when you're over it. Then release.
In the same way, you can move widgets about....
Then, hit the + button, or just touch-hold on the backgroun, to add a widget back.
apols if you knew all this and I've missed the point...
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It's not obvious until you've done it once, agreed
to remove widgets in the Sense UI, you touch-and-hold them for a few seconds, then drag them down to the "Remove" area that has appeared at the bottom, and which turns red when you're over it. Then release.
In the same way, you can move widgets about....
Then, hit the + button, or just touch-hold on the backgroun, to add a widget back.
apols if you knew all this and I've missed the point...
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Thanks, but it was my fault. I didn't realise the thread was about the Sense UI. I am running M2D.

how to get weather effect on home screen

i cant find this out at all?? anyone?? ive clicked menu, then weather wallpaper, then albums, then chose my own wallpaper, but nothing else happens?? ive even tried the default weather wallpaper, still no effects, weatehr is on and auto update, what aam i doing wrong ?
mox123 said:
i cant find this out at all?? anyone?? ive clicked menu, then weather wallpaper, then albums, then chose my own wallpaper, but nothing else happens?? ive even tried the default weather wallpaper, still no effects, weatehr is on and auto update, what aam i doing wrong ?
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Turn on Google Location in google maps and that should do it.
I've had the same problem sice I first got my Leo. I did a search and found another thread on the subject (can't remember where!). Unfortunately it fizzled out before a proper solution was found. But from what I remember of it, the post above is on the right track.
The weather effect on the Today screen is tied in to the 'My Location' function on the Weather screen, which in turn gets your current location from Google Maps.
If the 'My Location' feature on Google Maps doesn't work, your weather will not update on the Weather screen and therefore the weather effect will not work on the Today screen.
Also, and this is particularly frustating, even when the 'My Location' feature on Google Maps does work (as mine does), often the feature still does not work! This seems to be dependent on your actual location in the country...
I also remember seeing some older posts from the States saying that the 'My Location' service in Google Maps is 'switched off' for many US providers. But that may be out of date, by now...
Maybe the above will give you some useful keywords to run through search engines...
Good luck!
I've NEVER had the "my location" feature working, either on my HD with a Leo ROM, or on my HD2. None of the suggestions on the forums have worked for me either, so I've given up on it.
You can remove "my location" from your weather tab with the cab by Dutty at the bottom of this post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4935494&postcount=2
Once you've done that, manually add your own city/cities and then go to the home tab, click the clock, and make sure you have your city selected. Then, you should get get the weather for your selected city.
That's the way I've got it anyway, and it works for me. I'd like "my location" working, but I don't travel so much that I can't keep track of where I am myself! lol
Good luck!
Spot on, JohnC...!
I'd always missed out the step of choosing one of the manually selected locations in the WorldClock app before. That was why it wouldn't work for me.
I'm still hoping for a solution to the 'My Location' problem though, so I'm leaving that switched on for the moment...
Btw... If you find you cannot select your own town/city because it is not available in the list, you should do a search on here for 'WeatherCityEditor', which is a nice little tool that will allow you to add more towns...
fixed it now, basically it was the location thingy, i had disabled it ages ago in the hope of saving battery or something like that lol, its back on now
I'd followed your step but still cannot back to weather wallpaper.
Help me please
modx said:
I'd followed your step but still cannot back to weather wallpaper.
Help me please
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So you have the little weather icon under your clock, but you don't have the full screen weather effect? If that's the case you just need to tap menu on the home tab, press home wallpaper and select weather wallpaper.
I personally had to disable My Location because it defaulted on my whole state as opposed to me city so it wasn't entirely accurate. But even though I've manually set my location, it still sometimes defaults to 'My Location' on the home tab and I need to tap the clock and reselect my city. Any fix for this?

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.

sense clock/weather acting up tonight

my stock rooted sense rom has a giant clock with some animated weather stuff overlay-ed. it it messing up.
it shows the weather as 0, even though its about 23
there is no high or low info
it just says delphi (my city) to the left underneath side of my giant clock
i can add citys as they added cities seem to work, but these added city cant be "my current" city
i did a nandroid back up and did a factory reset and set the phone back up and the weather did the same thing
so i did a backup restore and it once again it was still acting up
i have the weather set to "current location" and drove to another city and it change city's but still couldn't display the animated icons on the home screen or one the weather widget was actually opened
when i scroll through the other two citys i set up the weather becomes animated but not on the home screen
i have deleted the widget and created a new one- no change
i tried to add my city manually but cant because it isn't listed when i type it in
any help would be apprecitaed
there is a chance that there is a software problem and i maybe didnt foramt the phone correctly but i doubt it.
yeah htc servers are acting up.
might be working for some now?
Same here, all night mine has only said the time, Springfield(my city), and the date. That's all. I'm rooted with Ava v10 and modded blue sense clock.
Sent from my EVO's 4G You?........I thought so
potna said:
my stock rooted sense rom has a giant clock with some animated weather stuff overlay-ed. it it messing up.
it shows the weather as 0, even though its about 23
there is no high or low info
it just says delphi (my city) to the left underneath side of my giant clock
i can add citys as they added cities seem to work, but these added city cant be "my current" city
i did a nandroid back up and did a factory reset and set the phone back up and the weather did the same thing
so i did a backup restore and it once again it was still acting up
i have the weather set to "current location" and drove to another city and it change city's but still couldn't display the animated icons on the home screen or one the weather widget was actually opened
when i scroll through the other two citys i set up the weather becomes animated but not on the home screen
i have deleted the widget and created a new one- no change
i tried to add my city manually but cant because it isn't listed when i type it in
any help would be apprecitaed
there is a chance that there is a software problem and i maybe didnt foramt the phone correctly but i doubt it.
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the problem look like is on HTC side there a thread already on devs side, also i checked my wifes incredible unrooted and got the same issue too, so don worrie about
lol, i have been messing with this things for hours now...lol seeing you guys with the same issues brings relief.
thanks, now i can quit all the flashing non sense i have been doing. i should have came here first!!
thanks
lol i just read my own post...i went to another city? yeah, well i really did, i have been messing with this off and on all day.
yeah, its seems to be working again
potna said:
yeah, its seems to be working again
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shut to late, im flashing CM6.1.1 now so no sense clock
Its working now, it seemed to be a widespread issue.

Does your weather app update regularly?

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.

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