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Help HTC Desire Weather Widget showing wrong location
- Thread starter glee2000
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Thanks ... but that's not quite the solution I had in mind! This app used to keep fairly good track of my location (i.e. town, not just country) and that seems to have dropped out. The way the weather varies around the UK, it's not doing the job I thought it should, and that it used to do!
Sorry Greymoon. The frustration caused me to get my tongue stuck in my cheek.
As you so rightly say the weather is variable in the UK. Is it a possibility though that the app has picked up the correct weather for the current location, but is simply displaying the wrong field from the database (i.e United Kingdom) as its location?
Certainly as I check my phone, the displayed current weather seems to match the reality of what's happening outside. Whilst this would still be intensely annoying, at least the info displayed may be of some use.
As you so rightly say the weather is variable in the UK. Is it a possibility though that the app has picked up the correct weather for the current location, but is simply displaying the wrong field from the database (i.e United Kingdom) as its location?
Certainly as I check my phone, the displayed current weather seems to match the reality of what's happening outside. Whilst this would still be intensely annoying, at least the info displayed may be of some use.
Howard Hopkinson
Android Enthusiast
Update:
My phone is now showing the correct location but only on mobile data. As soon as I switch to wifi it goes back to the United Kingdom. My GF's phone is doing the same. The only difference is that my phone uses Accuweather and hers uses HTC weather. This is because my phone is rooted and and is running a custom rom.
My phone is now showing the correct location but only on mobile data. As soon as I switch to wifi it goes back to the United Kingdom. My GF's phone is doing the same. The only difference is that my phone uses Accuweather and hers uses HTC weather. This is because my phone is rooted and and is running a custom rom.
petscott0820
Lurker
I got a HTC Sensation recently. From the first day it showed correct current position till I went to another city for couple of days. There it automatically updated to that city. Since I returned to my home, it stopped showing current location and updating. This problem made me crazy. I tried a lot of things (rebooted, cleared cache, returned to default factory setting), but nothing worked. The "Navigation" showed the correct location but the weather widget neither updated nor showed my current location.
Finally what I did was:
1. Went outside and turned the GPS and wifi on,
2. Downloaded two gps utilities software just to see whether the GPS was working (I dowloaded GPS Essentials and GPS status from market- these are free).
3. I found the exact GPS co-ordinates in one of the programs.
4. Updated the weather widget- and it worked!!!
Hope this helps guys.
Finally what I did was:
1. Went outside and turned the GPS and wifi on,
2. Downloaded two gps utilities software just to see whether the GPS was working (I dowloaded GPS Essentials and GPS status from market- these are free).
3. I found the exact GPS co-ordinates in one of the programs.
4. Updated the weather widget- and it worked!!!
Hope this helps guys.
volvo940seturbo
Member
Ok guys, this may help you all. I have not had the problem while connected to wifi, I have only had this while connected to gsm network. So all I have done to cure this, is go to MENU, SETTINGS, MANAGE APPS, ALL, then go down to htc weather and htc weather widget, and clear all data in these. You will lose all settings you had set up for any locations you want weather for, but once done, refresh the data, and it should now start giving you the correct weather data for where you are. Both my sensation on three and my desire HD sim free but running on three, had been having these issues, and now seem to be working fine, refreshed the data several times, and is now always giving my current location, rather than united kingdom.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
I have to say I've tried all the suggestions kindly posted here by various users and none of them have worked for me. I too am on T-Mobile and have been getting default Location of United Kingdom for the past few months, sometimes permanently sometiemes intermittently. But all very irritating. The "follow-me" weather forecast was one of the reasons I went for the Desire, and I have now written it off on my particular handset. HTC don't seem bothered, nor do T-Mobile. We wll have to assume that it's a gonner in terms of any fix being provided in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, I've tried a variety of weather widget alternatives (too many to list here!). To cut a long story short, I have now found a weather widget which "does the job" perfectly in terms of location tracking. It's the Weather Channel app, which also comes with a widget and it works perfectly on my HTC Desire/T-mobile. The only outstanding issue, a little bit irritating but liveable with, is that the widget will only display the temperature in Fahrenheit, even if you specify metric in settings. They acknowledge the bug and say they are working on it (at least I got a reply from them!). However, I can live with that quite comfortably, because the location tracking is so reliable, and works regardless of wifi/Gps settings being on or off or whatever in the meantime.
This widget does not come with a clock, but you can use any standard clock widget including the one-line version of HTC's own widget for a clock to get round this.
I hope this helps some users who want to find something that basically "works", like the HTC widget used to to do, before it broke to the point of no one being bothered to repair it!
This widget does not come with a clock, but you can use any standard clock widget including the one-line version of HTC's own widget for a clock to get round this.
I hope this helps some users who want to find something that basically "works", like the HTC widget used to to do, before it broke to the point of no one being bothered to repair it!
My Desire is showing United Kingdom or 'current location' and no weather at the moment. If I connect to mobile internet/unistall/reinstall it briefly shows 'current location' and weather but the minute I switch the internet off it goes blank. Although the widget might not have updated, whether I had the wifi/internet on previously wasn't an issue.
I got a HTC Sensation recently. From the first day it showed correct current position till I went to another city for couple of days. There it automatically updated to that city. Since I returned to my home, it stopped showing current location and updating. This problem made me crazy. I tried a lot of things (rebooted, cleared cache, returned to default factory setting), but nothing worked. The "Navigation" showed the correct location but the weather widget neither updated nor showed my current location.
Finally what I did was:
1. Went outside and turned the GPS and wifi on,
2. Downloaded two gps utilities software just to see whether the GPS was working (I dowloaded GPS Essentials and GPS status from market- these are free).
3. I found the exact GPS co-ordinates in one of the programs.
4. Updated the weather widget- and it worked!!!
Hope this helps guys.
Are you saying that you don't have the Current Location option at all? If that's what's happening to you then you can resolve it by looking in your list of apps and running the Setup program (icon looks like a magician's hat with a gold rim) - this seems to do something which resolves the confusion in the phone when you wipe out one of the HTC services' data. It happened to me some time back and drove me nuts!
If that's not what you're experiencing then best of luck getting to the bottom of your issue.
thanks that sorted it for me for now anyway
greatsnoring
Member
This worked for me after I switched off and on again after following your set up procedure. It asks you about allowing google to track your location which I said yes to. I would imagine that everyone with a problem has inadvertently turned this off. May even be to do with progs such as Juice defender which might do this to save battery. I have this- do others with problems have similar apps running?
1st_Paladin
Well-Known Member
Here's how I resolved this issue. Drag and drop the HTC Weather Widget to Edit. Select current location. Resynched and it worked.