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Help Weather Location is wrong
- Thread starter AcePuppy
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fuzzy_logik
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Orange County here.. having the same problem with frickin Xuzhou...
We can fix the clock. but how can we fix the current location?
:<
Edit: Turning off "Use wireless networks" fixed it for me. I hope it does for you also.
from home screen:
Menu->settings->Location.
We can fix the clock. but how can we fix the current location?
:<
Edit: Turning off "Use wireless networks" fixed it for me. I hope it does for you also.
from home screen:
Menu->settings->Location.
Shamrock13
Android Enthusiast
This is my problem currently as well, but the thing is, it's showing me in Google Maps as in that area as well. It looks like my GPS doesn't want to work correctly.
It keeps showing my location as temporarily unavailable as well in Maps.
Shamrock: I noticed that as well yesterday. I was trying to show a co-worker of mine the google map function so I had it give me directions to his house and it was starting my trip in Hong Kong!
I think it might just be my office though because when I left here to see a friend in Irvine, the clock and the weather locations were accurate.
I think it might just be my office though because when I left here to see a friend in Irvine, the clock and the weather locations were accurate.
Geese1
Well-Known Member
My Weather widget changed over to New York, NY as well and it took me a few minutes to figure out why.
If you look in the lower right of the widget, there should be a 1/2, 2/2, etc. Just swipe up and down in the widget to scroll through various cities. Mine had both New York, and Franklin (which was my actual location).
You can also click the menu button when in the widget and select Add to choose additional cities. Right now I have 3 locations to choose from, including my current location. I don't know why New York was selected, as I never went in and chose it, but there it is.
If you look in the lower right of the widget, there should be a 1/2, 2/2, etc. Just swipe up and down in the widget to scroll through various cities. Mine had both New York, and Franklin (which was my actual location).
You can also click the menu button when in the widget and select Add to choose additional cities. Right now I have 3 locations to choose from, including my current location. I don't know why New York was selected, as I never went in and chose it, but there it is.
atrain2787
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I'm in Northern VA as well and have had the same problem with the HTC clock widget with weather ever since getting my Incredible. It says I'm in Providence at least once a day. Wifi is turned off, tried restarting the phone, removing/re-adding the widget, called *228 and the problem still persists.
Also, I have noticed that in the widget settings, the "Update Automatically" check box never remains selected. I do have my phone set to Location On. Any suggestions? Really frustrated, I don't want to move to Providence...
Also, I have noticed that in the widget settings, the "Update Automatically" check box never remains selected. I do have my phone set to Location On. Any suggestions? Really frustrated, I don't want to move to Providence...
facekl
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edit: woops. wrong thread
My "Incredible" is doing the same thing in Riverside county, CA.
I've called "Big Red." The first thing they did was send me a new phone which, upon power-up, went straight to Xuzhou, China again. I called another rep who sent me to their network tech whosaid it was an HTC problem and sent me to the HTC tech who said, you guessed it, it was a Verizon problem.
It looks to be a probelm in the network specific to certain towers. During my 35 mile commute, I refreshed the widget from time to time. The location, weather, date, and time stayed correct. Within 3 blocks of my house the widget went to China. The next day I did the same thing driving TO work. A few blocks away from the house the widget "came home."
The hard reboot doesn't work, by the way. If you're lucky it'll show the right time for a few seconds and then swing to China.
Good luck.
I've called "Big Red." The first thing they did was send me a new phone which, upon power-up, went straight to Xuzhou, China again. I called another rep who sent me to their network tech whosaid it was an HTC problem and sent me to the HTC tech who said, you guessed it, it was a Verizon problem.
It looks to be a probelm in the network specific to certain towers. During my 35 mile commute, I refreshed the widget from time to time. The location, weather, date, and time stayed correct. Within 3 blocks of my house the widget went to China. The next day I did the same thing driving TO work. A few blocks away from the house the widget "came home."
The hard reboot doesn't work, by the way. If you're lucky it'll show the right time for a few seconds and then swing to China.
Good luck.
Urgh! Annoying, huh? It happened to me this past Monday. Navigation and everything worked fine, but my clock said it was 12:30 in the afternoon and my location was Xuzhou. I tried a variety of settings (turning Wi-Fi on and off, turning GPS on and off, etc), and let the phone sit for a while to see if it would recover on its own. No such luck. A reboot did the trick, and the problem hasn't come back (yet). Oh, I'm in Orange County, CA.Has there been any solution to this? I have had my incredible since original release date and once a day, my incredible changes the location to xuzhou.
So... What's up with that??!
I've been having this issue since I've had the phone. I've done soft resets, hard reset, software updates and even phone replacement. Nothing works. This is very troublesome since I use it for work. My appointments, alarms, email, etc. usually occur 15 hours ahead of time.
I've called Verizon twice, and taken it in to the store on several occasions and their solution was to manually set date & time and turn off auto updates. All they say they can do is replace the phone again.
I called HTC and they said that it has to do with the phones getting information from the towers. They suggested to use WiFi to get updates.
I've called Verizon twice, and taken it in to the store on several occasions and their solution was to manually set date & time and turn off auto updates. All they say they can do is replace the phone again.
I called HTC and they said that it has to do with the phones getting information from the towers. They suggested to use WiFi to get updates.
I've seen tons of posts about problems and bugs in the current location or current city feature in both the World Clock and Weather applications from HTC. There may be multiple problems, but one stands out:
-- The applications' location database has errors. LOTS of errors. --
I think this is how it happens: A lot of the applications use a "location service", which HTC's help desk was reluctant to claim ownership of (to be fair, it's probably something that has been outsourced). This service first tries to determine your physical location based on your wifi and/or cell phone network information, and some phones have an additional GPS option. On my phone (HERO), this generally is in the right ballpark. The problem is that this abstract location data has to be mapped into geographic space. My guess is that your physical location may be returned either in some network space (ip address?), or in terms of GPS coordinates. Either way, these coordinates have to be mapped into a city to get the right time zone and/or weather. I've seen a variety of mapping errors:
* physical coordinates 34N 117W (Tustin, CA), gets mapped into Xuzhou, China, coordinates 34N 117E (see hapybrian's post); I'm betting something similar was happening with the other CA users whose current location was Hong Kong.
* My current location in Norwalk, CT is mapped to the city of Norwalk, CA, so that the time is Pacific rather than Eastern. I saw many posts of users who had similar problems (apparently correct location, but wrong time zone).
I don't know if these are errors from fat-fingering data, or from using a lousy method of populating the data, but evidently nobody thought to validate the results.
Bottom line: If your current location is showing either the wrong time zone, or a wildly wrong city, most likely it's an error in the location service database. (And if the error *only* happens when you are in that particular location, and happens every time you are there, you have proof.) There is very little you can do except complain to HTC until they get pissed at their location service provider. I escalated the issue with HTC's tech support and with luck somebody there will take note and make an effort to correct the most egregious errors.
Note that you *can* set the default city of your clock application to some nearby large city of your choice, although it's a bit of a pain - you delete the widget from your desktop, then add it again and select the city when you add it. But this sort of defeats the purpose of the location service in the first place.
-- The applications' location database has errors. LOTS of errors. --
I think this is how it happens: A lot of the applications use a "location service", which HTC's help desk was reluctant to claim ownership of (to be fair, it's probably something that has been outsourced). This service first tries to determine your physical location based on your wifi and/or cell phone network information, and some phones have an additional GPS option. On my phone (HERO), this generally is in the right ballpark. The problem is that this abstract location data has to be mapped into geographic space. My guess is that your physical location may be returned either in some network space (ip address?), or in terms of GPS coordinates. Either way, these coordinates have to be mapped into a city to get the right time zone and/or weather. I've seen a variety of mapping errors:
* physical coordinates 34N 117W (Tustin, CA), gets mapped into Xuzhou, China, coordinates 34N 117E (see hapybrian's post); I'm betting something similar was happening with the other CA users whose current location was Hong Kong.
* My current location in Norwalk, CT is mapped to the city of Norwalk, CA, so that the time is Pacific rather than Eastern. I saw many posts of users who had similar problems (apparently correct location, but wrong time zone).
I don't know if these are errors from fat-fingering data, or from using a lousy method of populating the data, but evidently nobody thought to validate the results.
Bottom line: If your current location is showing either the wrong time zone, or a wildly wrong city, most likely it's an error in the location service database. (And if the error *only* happens when you are in that particular location, and happens every time you are there, you have proof.) There is very little you can do except complain to HTC until they get pissed at their location service provider. I escalated the issue with HTC's tech support and with luck somebody there will take note and make an effort to correct the most egregious errors.
Note that you *can* set the default city of your clock application to some nearby large city of your choice, although it's a bit of a pain - you delete the widget from your desktop, then add it again and select the city when you add it. But this sort of defeats the purpose of the location service in the first place.
Mine is doing the same thing. *228 does not help and a hard reset helps only for a short while. Sometimes it decides I am in Portland on west coast time (I live in Pennsylvania)!! I have missed meeting alerts because my clock decided to change time zones. If this keeps up I will need to pay the penalty and change to an iPhone. ugh.
Same thing happening to me. I'm in California, but my weather app is saying Brookline, MA. I've been on the phone with Verizon for two days (gone through EVERYTHING); was sent a replacement phone (which still did not work); then was transferred to HTC who took me through the same steps as Verizon. I am now on my third "factory reset". They acknowledge that other people are having this problem, but have no idea what the problem is. I'm still on the phone with HTC, so if I get any answers I will post them. Doubtful though!
Note that you *can* set the default city of your clock application to some nearby large city of your choice, although it's a bit of a pain - you delete the widget from your desktop, then add it again and select the city when you add it. But this sort of defeats the purpose of the location service in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Except for more obscure locations, the weather app doesn't pick them up.
Except for more obscure locations, the weather app doesn't pick them up.
