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Changing the location for the weather

Has anyone figured out how to change the weather location reported in the HTC plugin. I live in an area not listed in the initial setup (Sacramento, CA) and I found a few registry entries to change, but it did not seem to change the display. In fact, I think I might have broke it!!

I somehow got it to work the second time i tried it. I first reset it back using the interface, then edited the registry and added my city. Works great.

Could you explain exactly the modification ?
Thanks.

You can find the registry entry here...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
HTC
HTCHome
Weather
Settings
You need to change the Location name and Location Code keys to match the format found on Accuweather.com for your City.
Press OK and save changes.
Backup your Registry first just incase.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK

is it possible to "REPROGRAM" the "weather icon" on the htc today screen ??? i would like to launch another program instead...thank you

format
<city name="Tampa, US" locationcode="NAM|US|FL|TAMPA|33601"/>
best i can tell the above is the correct syntax for getting cities in the list but aside from the above city and a couple of MAJOR cities i cannot get this to work on any smaller cities or towns. anyone come up with anything else?

It wont work for me either :0( - after the change it wont download?

If it's possible, anyone could do a tutorial for the weather change screen ?
Sorry for my bad english....
Many thanks.

Works a treat, thanks

Well, it works like a charm for me. Happy to see that you can actually change the city name too (mine is now Amersfoort, without the NL).
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Not all the locations ( supported by the service ) work with the HTC server side plugin

Poor engineering
pchronos said:
Not all the locations ( supported by the service ) work with the HTC server side plugin
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If this is true, HTC deserve one serious slap around their wrists...

I'm unable to change my weather city to Holiday, FL 34691 myself...tried a couple different variations, but it's just not holding.
So, I'm wondering...there are a FEW bigger US cities not included in this AccuWeather plugin app that HTC is using - when the phones are officialy released in N. America in the (hopefully) near future, will these cities be added as supported options? I mean, no Denver? Tampa?...but St. Petersburg...!?!?

mgm1979 said:
I'm unable to change my weather city to Holiday, FL 34691 myself...tried a couple different variations, but it's just not holding.
So, I'm wondering...there are a FEW bigger US cities not included in this AccuWeather plugin app that HTC is using - when the phones are officialy released in N. America in the (hopefully) near future, will these cities be added as supported options? I mean, no Denver? Tampa?...but St. Petersburg...!?!?
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Denver works fine for me. I was upset I couldn't get more specific and use Boulder or Superior though.

LPChris said:
Denver works fine for me. I was upset I couldn't get more specific and use Boulder or Superior though.
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oh, I didn't try adding Denver, I was just looking at the included list of cities.

Could someone point me in the right direction for changing the weather - i cannot find the file on my touch to change the details. I followed the lead posted earlier but can't for the life of me find the appropraite file to change.

Changing Weather city
Hi all
Quite simple to change the defined weather cities. Just download a registry editor like Mobile Registry Editor (http://www.breaksoft.com/Download/MRE/MobileRegistryEditor.zip) which allows you to edit the registry from your PC using ActiveSync. Then go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCHome\Weather\Settings
And change the Keys Location and LoctionCode to the new city. To know the city code find it on http://www.accuweather.com/.
Cheers

you could always move to a city that is listed, this would resolve the problem....

Hi Everybody;
Does Anyone can tell me what is the code for the city Namur in Belgium ?
I searched on accuweather.com, the city is listed but I dont know where to go to retrieve this code...

jool0212 said:
Hi Everybody;Does Anyone can tell me what is the code for the city Namur in Belgium ?
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EUR|BE|BE008|NAMUR

Origami 2.0 Weather Update

Anyone can change the weather location and get weather updates?
I tried many times and it returns error saying search service is not enabled....

It works a bit weird
Yes I did that. Origami is cool. I seem to remember that selecting another city is difficult as hell. You really have to give an "enter" keystroke to accept the new city.
Keep trying, it must work .!

origami
after first boot of my shift, closed origami. than i'm gone on control pannel and unistalled it.

Adding a different city
Intuitively, you would think you could change the city as with HTC Home, but not the case here. MS knows better, you need to tap the settings gear then add a new tile. When you add the new weather tile, you get to search the new city by name or by zip code (USA). Then if you are annoyed by the default Seatle Weather tile, remove it! Try connected to WiFi and/or through GSM. I beleive the WiFi connected and updated when I added my local town.

thanks for the replies, I tried all methods and it still gives me the message : Can't search for the location, The search service or the internet connection may be unavailable"
I of course have internet connection established and available for all other programs...
Is there a registry fix?

We heard you
pitt1983 said:
after first boot of my shift, closed origami. than i'm gone on control pannel and unistalled it.
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We understand, you don't want Origami Experience. Fine for you, you don't have to post it in any thread that discusses OE.

vaio said:
thanks for the replies, I tried all methods and it still gives me the message : Can't search for the location, The search service or the internet connection may be unavailable"
I of course have internet connection established and available for all other programs...
Is there a registry fix?
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I have the same issue. I am not able to update weather tile.

I have now found out, you have to set your location and system locale to United States to make it work..... not sure why there is such requirement....

"Diamond" Digital Clock Install Program?

It seems they are just little number files but they won''t overwrite the existing files that are in the Windows directory.
Anyway I really like the look and wonder if there is a CAB type file that will install and voila, you have the Diamond look digital clock?
Anybody know of such a program?
Or a really simple set of instructions.
I followed the instructions and I can't get it to work.
Or how about a way to get the "Diamond" Digital Clock in to S2U2?
Help... help... help...

Hi Jim,
I was actually looking for quite some time and found a diamond digital clock cab. It was here in XDA but I cant find the thread I found it in (It was in the main hacking and development thread)
I'll just repost the cab file and hope I dont get reemed out. I take NO credit for makng this file what so ever.
I had tried installing it before on my vogue and it wasnt working then I upgraded my rom to 6.1 and figured Id give it a shot and it worked. I dont know if that had anything to do with it. it SHOULD still work in WM6 I just wasnt able to get it to work for some reason.
I think you have to disable HTC home as well too before you install the cab.

Nice find!
When I try to install on 6.1 it says "Installation unsuccessful". Any thoughts?
...Nevermind. For some reason it was copying itself when I put it on the sd card and one of the files was broken.

when you have it running is the clock in h:mm:ss tt format (ie 8:04 pm) or is it in hh:mm:ss tt (08:04 pm) I cant for the life of me get the zero infront of the single digit time (anywhere from 1-9 am or pm). just really erking me thats all. I had only installed this myself last night when I saw this thread asking for it so sort of a coincidence.
Anyway.. yeah let me know how your clock works and if you had to do something to fix it. I went into the regional settings and what not and changed the time format but still didnt change anything even after a reset.

For anyone who's installed the cab I posted and had the same issues I had (the 0 infront of the time (08:43 pm) then heres a quick fix I found in the hacking/development thread in the main forum.
Just copy the file in the zip file to your new HTC Home folder on your phone. Should be /HTCHome, sp right in the phones main directory alone with my documents and program files etc. If when you copy it over to replace the exsiting HH_Home_off. png in the folder it wont work go and disable the HTC Home plugin then copy it. That worked for me. Now I finally have a normal looking clock without always having to have 4 numbers showing.

Aaron McCarthy said:
Hi Jim,
I was actually looking for quite some time and found a diamond digital clock cab. It was here in XDA but I cant find the thread I found it in (It was in the main hacking and development thread)
I'll just repost the cab file and hope I dont get reemed out. I take NO credit for makng this file what so ever.
I had tried installing it before on my vogue and it wasnt working then I upgraded my rom to 6.1 and figured Id give it a shot and it worked. I dont know if that had anything to do with it. it SHOULD still work in WM6 I just wasnt able to get it to work for some reason.
I think you have to disable HTC home as well too before you install the cab.
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I just installed and my text messages dont work. any idea?

Installed great! thanx a lot.

Since I installed this I can only select Bakersfield for my weather.
Anyone know a workaround?
Also this plugin severly lags my touch, anyone else?
Thanks.

diamond clock
So does anyone know of a diamond clock that actually flips like the real diamond clock?? All the skins for HTC HC are great but i would love to find something closer to the real deal.

Actually it doesn't lag anymore, but my weather is ONLY Bakersfield.
IS that with everyone else?

mfpreach said:
Actually it doesn't lag anymore, but my weather is ONLY Bakersfield.
IS that with everyone else?
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I had this same issue... What I had to do was uninstall it.. use the normal HTC home and reselect my city then reload on this updated version. Aparently all you have to do is add the XML of your city somewhere in the registy... I have no idea how so if anyone knows how feel free to let us know.
Since I did the steps above I havnt gone in to "Change city" anymore and it updates my city fine

Aaron McCarthy said:
I had this same issue... What I had to do was uninstall it.. use the normal HTC home and reselect my city then reload on this updated version. Aparently all you have to do is add the XML of your city somewhere in the registy... I have no idea how so if anyone knows how feel free to let us know.
Since I did the steps above I havnt gone in to "Change city" anymore and it updates my city fine
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I uninstalled and reinstalled and it worked as you said it did. However, when I changed it from Fahrenheit to Celcius thats when it updated to Bakersfield.
I can sort of understand Fahr, but Celcius would be much nicer. I think the benefit outweighs the cost so i'll use canada + fahr . Unless you know how to fix this.

My first experiences with touch2

Hello all,
I am a year-long htc blackstone user, flashing miri roms etc, a heavy user.
So I bought this week my wife the touch2 (mega). Now I have some issues with this one. For me these would not be that much of a problem - I am fluent with stopping data connections - but we are talking about not such a fluent user now...
I already installed the owner info patch.
Apparently we live that far in countryside, that the home page weather does not work. Google location services is configured, google maps finds our location - but weather not. No location at all, just tells that the weather data is not available.
Second thing... no hdtweak or kaisertweak for that yet? I'd like to configure the internet (gprs/3g) to deactivate automatically when not in use. This is not found in the settings anywhere. Using NoData or such is just not practical. The stopping data connection would be to save battery.
Third.. sense tabs. In the settings there is no possibility to change the order of the tabs :-O
So, the first thoughts...
abe

touch2
I too, recieved the touch2 3 days ago. Need to sort out how to send sms in groups, like my old nokia n95 this could be done without any problems. The weather updates are costing me network charge, beware! Been searching the net for this sms software and most are not what i am looking for.. Anyone out there to help? Would reflashing the phone rom with a custom one work? As the phone is locked to t-mobile I would like to dismiss the logo start up's and the t-mobile web settings. Help anyone.. Please. Thanks You.

For the wather map to work, you must enable the location services that can be found in the settings.

needless to say, I have activated the location services.
it just must be the fact that we are living so far in the countryside.
I have on my blackstone a newer rom and manila - the weather shows perfectly our home location, a small village of 3500 inhabitants.
I wonder if that version on touch2 would work in a city.
abe

hey guys i aint a touch 2 owner yet....
but to answer one of your questions anssibragge
there is a thread made up for touchFlo2d 2.0 themes and there is an app that has the ability to change tabs around/ disable tabs
this may work for your touch 2
its made by Twolf and i think its called ReFlush but i could be wrong
the thread is in the windows themes under dev/hacking
hope this helps.....
dave

Can not add new city

Yesterday I tried to add a new city from the weather-tab, but there where no city to choos from. I could just choose to search, or i thought I could, but when I enterd the city in the search-form, nothing mor than a warning signal sounden when I pressed the return-key on the keayboard, there where no searchbutton (I dont know I it suppoused to be). I have the same issue with the world clock.
I have winmo6.5 stock rom. I have also been using TD2 Tools, Topaz Tweeks and s2us.
Can it be any regestry key that is wrong or somthing else?
/Christian

jassmannen said:
Yesterday I tried to add a new city from the weather-tab, but there where no city to choos from. I could just choose to search, or i thought I could, but when I enterd the city in the search-form, nothing mor than a warning signal sounden when I pressed the return-key on the keayboard, there where no searchbutton (I dont know I it suppoused to be). I have the same issue with the world clock.
I have winmo6.5 stock rom. I have also been using TD2 Tools, Topaz Tweeks and s2us.
Can it be any regestry key that is wrong or somthing else?
/Christian
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Many things can cause this.
some simple things to check are;
1. Does your SIP add a space after a word? This will cause it not to find a city. Simply hit backspace after city typed will bring up the list.
2. Sometimes your initial connection has to be through WiFi to get the city DB to update.
3. Depending on your location, there are some fixes out there for example Search Conflippers North America Weather v5, this updates the DB with most US Cities and zips.
Sorry I can't be more specific but your information is lacking, i.e., your location and carrier.

It have worked when I installed the 6.5, but no there seems to bee no cities. Is there a way to update the city database? It looks like the DB is empty.

jassmannen said:
It have worked when I installed the 6.5, but no there seems to bee no cities. Is there a way to update the city database? It looks like the DB is empty.
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1. the SIP issue will cause the DB to appear empty.
3. You can search for fixes specific to your area. I only know of the North America fix.

Interesting. Now I got answers when I search on the add city-page.

how to add small cities in weather
i just got my htc pure from at&t . I was able to add big cities but i could not find kingsville,tx from the list how to add the city manually please help

dinakar407 said:
i just got my htc pure from at&t . I was able to add big cities but i could not find kingsville,tx from the list how to add the city manually please help
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Install these 2 cabs to your device.
Warning; the DB is very slow so give it time to load after you type your city.
Kingsville is in there.

THanks Bruce
I can now add small cities In USA
Each state(US) is treated as a country and the country of united states is removed. Good Idea