How do you fix home and work locations on google now? - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
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Cor-master said:
Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
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I have the same problem, GoogleNow seems to think my place of work is my home..? Would be nice to fix

Now mine has seemed to have fixed itself oddly
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With the new maps it can be checked and set in the profile area (head and shoulders icon on the rhs of the search bar).

You can also just go to the maps website and set it there
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Open up Google now and scroll all the way down and press menu > my stuff> places and there's settings for home and work locations. The options for home, work, etc only show up there if in Google now cards you add that specific place as your home or whatever the case is
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Maps 7.0.2: View menu, Settings, Edit home or work.

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4.2 Play Store Bug?

I have disabled Auto-Add Shortcuts in the Play Store settings but it seems to still keep adding them to my home screen every time I download an app. Have only noticed this behaviour since I started using 4.2. Thanks for your help.
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benrees21 said:
I have disabled Auto-Add Shortcuts in the Play Store settings but it seems to still keep adding them to my home screen every time I download an app. Have only noticed this behaviour since I started using 4.2. Thanks for your help.
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I've also disabled this option on the play store but it's working fine on my phone. No shortcuts are added when I download an app
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benrees21 said:
I have disabled Auto-Add Shortcuts in the Play Store settings but it seems to still keep adding them to my home screen every time I download an app. Have only noticed this behaviour since I started using 4.2. Thanks for your help.
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I just tried and it didn't auto add for me. May want to recheck it, reboot, and uncheck it again.
decepticon said:
I just tried and it didn't auto add for me. May want to recheck it, reboot, and uncheck it again.
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Done that and it still does it! No biggie, just annoying.
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benrees21 said:
Done that and it still does it! No biggie, just annoying.
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I know what you mean, until I learned it could be disabled it drove me crazy

Blinkfeed - weather widget issue

Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
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wyase9 said:
Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
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This happened to me as well.. It wouldn't say London but it still wouldn't show the weather icon next to the clock above Blinkfeed. What worked for me was, I had to turn on mobile data, turn on GPS and then go back into weather and it should get your current location.
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Thanks for the reply. I tried that and still nothing... This is so annoying man. It may be some other hidden setting in my phone, I don't know... All I know is that the thing should allow you to choose your weather location instead of muck around with gps and all that!
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wyase9 said:
Thanks for the reply. I tried that and still nothing... This is so annoying man. It may be some other hidden setting in my phone, I don't know... All I know is that the thing should allow you to choose your weather location instead of muck around with gps and all that!
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Hmm i dunno... It worked for me! Maybe try it again, but this time do it and reboot the phone
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wyase9 said:
Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
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Hi.
I work in London and live in Bromley and I've seen no problems with the widget reflecting my 'current' location.
The only thing I remember doing is removing all other hard coded locations in the widget except my current location. I've also got all location services switched on (Not GPS) because I like the features available with this.
Only had the phone two days so hard to assess the potential drain on battery with location services, but based on an overnight charge and having used the phone on the train to browse, read email etc I'm currently at %79 charge after 7.5 hours..... certainly better than my S2.
owens2000 said:
Hi.
I work in London and live in Bromley and I've seen no problems with the widget reflecting my 'current' location.
The only thing I remember doing is removing all other hard coded locations in the widget except my current location. I've also got all location services switched on (Not GPS) because I like the features available with this.
Only had the phone two days so hard to assess the potential drain on battery with location services, but based on an overnight charge and having used the phone on the train to browse, read email etc I'm currently at %79 charge after 7.5 hours..... certainly better than my S2.
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Wow everyday I'm finding people near me. Really is a small world! I live in new addington and used to go school in bromley :/ a lot of my friends actually still leave in bromley at the moment (sorry for ot)
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Have you tried settings/locations and checked boxes for all the services?
Yep, that is the first thing I tried.....
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wyase9 said:
Yep, that is the first thing I tried.....
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tbh the effect of leaving GPS on all day is probably negligible - ive never turned it off on any phone ive had that had the feature :s
The crazy thing is that I can separately grab the clock and weather widget which is identical to the Blinkfeed header and it asks my location and I complete it and done... That works fine!... I just can't tell the same thing to the Blinkfeed widget! Crazy!
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Anyone else had any problems with the weather section at the top if Blinkfeed? I am still suffering with this issue.
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wyase9 said:
Anyone else had any problems with the weather section at the top if Blinkfeed? I am still suffering with this issue.
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Yup got the same issue. Just says my location, not the city I'm in. Tried with all location service on and GPS, wifi etc. When I refresh it says "unable to connect to location service". Could be software issue?
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Glad u am not alone on this problem. Have tried loads of things, but still no weather for my city and it says data not available....
Maybe there are others out rather, but I think there must be a setting otherwise everyone would have suffered this issue.
Any new help or suggestions out there would be appreciated.
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Have you guys tried enabling/disabling mock locations in the development section on the settings?
Also if my guess is right based on "unable to connect to location service" it could be that your internet provider is block the port used by the weather widget. Have you guys tried using WIFI instead?
You have to have location services switched on. You dont need GPS switched on but you do need location services switched on.
Have you checked the sync settings for HTC Weather? I have mine set to auto update every few hours, you might need that on too.
I had this issue and everything was switched on. All you need to do to fix the issue is go into the clock app and select you location. Worked for me. Took 30 Seconds to update.
Riyal said:
Have you guys tried enabling/disabling mock locations in the development section on the settings?
Also if my guess is right based on "unable to connect to location service" it could be that your internet provider is block the port used by the weather widget. Have you guys tried using WIFI instead?
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Thanks for the advise, but still no luck. Already tried everything you said. I tried with mobile data off with just WiFi on but still nothing.
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RustyWrightOne said:
I had this issue and everything was switched on. All you need to do to fix the issue is go into the clock app and select you location. Worked for me. Took 30 Seconds to update.
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When you say your location, you mean home location? My home location is set but still no luck. Every time I go in to the clock app, it default to the time zone, which is London, Dublin.
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Yep, I tried it all, with wifi and mobile data also. I also tried the location setup on the clock.... Still no fix.
Remember, I added the separate HTC clock and weather widget on another desktop screen.. That worked fine with my location. The clock and weather at the top of Blinkfeed are identical, just the weather still shows no data
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eat1981 said:
Thanks for the advise, but still no luck. Already tried everything you said. I tried with mobile data off with just WiFi on but still nothing.
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When you say your location, you mean home location? My home location is set but still no luck. Every time I go in to the clock app, it default to the time zone, which is London, Dublin.
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I havn't got my phone with me at the minute to check. But it was in the clock app. I think I also deleted all the time zones and reset my location. My clock widget was also fine when the blinkfeed app wasn't. I will be able to check at lunch.
I rebooted mines into recovery then wipe cache and restarted then my location changed to where I live
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Help Google Now disappeared

I use Google Now quite often but when I woke up this morning, swiping up from the bottom of the screen no longer does anything. I don't remember turning Now off and can't seem to find the settings to turn it back on.
Does anyone know how to turn it back on?
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Acela1230 said:
I use Google Now quite often but when I woke up this morning, swiping up from the bottom of the screen no longer does anything. I don't remember turning Now off and can't seem to find the settings to turn it back on.
Does anyone know how to turn it back on?
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do you still have google now installed? is the search app working?
No now that I looked the Google search bar is missing as well. I looked in settings>apps>all and can't find it to enable it, not that I ever disabled it anyway.
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okay, click on this link from your n7 and use the play store app. does it say installed or not? https://play.google.com/store/apps/...nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5nb29nbGVxdWlja3NlYXJjaGJveCJd
That worked. It was disabled and I needed to enable it. I don't know how it got disabled but its fixed now. Thanks for the help
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I have the same problem but when I go into settings, I don't see the toggle key to enable/disable Google now.

[Q] Google Now: has my wrong location!!! So frustrating

I live in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada) and Google Now thinks I live in Hornby, Ontario which is like 45min away from me. Google maps seems to get my exact location (the GPS doesn't lock on it keeps saying "searching for location" or something like that but still shows me exact right location- when I have a SIM the GPS lock works perfectly). Google Now however doesn't fiind my right location with or without a SIM (always connected to internet via wi-fi). When I ask things like "what the weather" or "how's the traffic" it will give me information based on if I was in Hornby which I am not.
This has been going on for a couple of months now and is driving me CRAZY!
Any insight would be helpful - Thanks!
Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
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You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
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chromium96 said:
Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
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I have my home location set but it still doesn't make a difference.
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You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
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That is a workaround if I have to and cannot find a solution to where this would just work

I work from home for CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!

So I've looked all over for a resolution to this. It's driving me nuts. Google Now thinks my local Walmart is my work place. Although I go there way more often than I should, I do not work there. I have found lots of info about how to set your work location but the issue is I work from home.... So it's just not working. I have tried to set the same address I use for home as work but it doesn't seem to stick in Googles memory. I used to have it set as none and that was fine. It's just here recently that it's trying to force a work location. Maybe after some of the updates? Driving me nuts with notifications on both my tablet and phone. Please help!!! !!!?!!!!*[email protected]"#+ :banghead:
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jcnbama said:
So I've looked all over for a resolution to this. It's driving me nuts. Google Now thinks my local Walmart is my work place. Although I go there way more often than I should, I do not work there. I have found lots of info about how to set your work location but the issue is I work from home.... So it's just not working. I have tried to set the same address I use for home as work but it doesn't seem to stick in Googles memory. I used to have it set as none and that was fine. It's just here recently that it's trying to force a work location. Maybe after some of the updates? Driving me nuts with notifications on both my tablet and phone. Please help!!! !!!?!!!!*[email protected]"#+ :banghead:
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Your home address is not recognized as a POI(place of interest) by Google thats why you cannot check in there. Create a POI on Google earth/maps, attach a picture and description, wait a while and you should be able to check in to that location from there on. At least that's how I did it a couple of years ago with the home address of a friend of mine. If I am wrong I would gladly accept someone to correct me. The same issue apply to Facebook also.

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