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Weather Widget stopped working (Froyo 2.2.1)

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lauraeva

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I have an original HTC Desire and a Wildfire (c 2011) both running Froyo 2.2.

A few weeks ago the weather info went crazy on both phones. Although the home page clock is OK for time and date, the weather info is way off ... even showing the sunshine graphic in the middle of the night !

The weather widget / page doesn't seem to know what day of the week it is, forcasting Wed - Sat on a Sunday evening, with temperatures that look like February rather than late April for all my saved cities !

Has Android stopped supporting these core 2.2 apps ?

Do others see this too ?

I could ditch the weather page, but having your main home page clock showing bizzarely incorrect weather symbols is a real pain. Anyone know why the problem is happening ?

I'm not minded to upgrade because the Desire is a brilliant solid phone, and I have a Galaxy Tab to keep me happy on trips and daily commute.

(First post here)

Laura
 
Try going to the main settings, Apps, All, Weather and clear cache and data.

It's been a while since I've used Froyo so the exact path may be a little different, but try to follow that, the options ought to be there.

Then launch Weather from the app drawer, reset your preferences.

Let me know if this helps.
 
In apps I found :

Weather
Weather Agent Service
Weather Provider
Weather Widget

Update & delete not available on any of these ... but did clear cache and data and then reset my favourite cities.

Still erratic, with four day forecasts starting from random days rather than tomorrow, and silly temperatures.

Its the same on both my phones running Froyo so it seems like the issue is with the data provider for the native app.

AccuWeather on my tab running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean works OK and was used with BBC and Weather Channel to verify how crazy the Froyo weather app had become.

Thanks, and any other help / comments from anyone much welcomed ...
 
I've had HTCs since Eclair, so far as I recall, I thought they always used AccuWeather but maybe I'm mistaken.

A few weeks back, we had some of the interfaces with some of the major weather providers break and that screwed up a lot of people. Maybe whatever yours is using is from that same lot.

You can replace your stock clock weather widget for one that will do the job.

I recommend that you search the Play Store for Droid27 - that's the developer name - and choose from a wide selection of Sense-like widgets.

When you tap for time you can have it take you to the awesome HTC clock/alarm/stopwatch app, just like you have now, but you'll get a modern weather link.
Droid27 is on the tail end of that confusion I mentioned so that will all be cleared up for his stuff very soon, and already is for most people. He's abandoned the old services as a lost cause.

Plus, his widgets are really cool and you can configure different areas to bring up different things. In addition to weather service Droid27 provides, I tap my minutes to bring up the Wunderground and I tap the date to bring up Radar Now.

Here are some links to get you started if you're interested.

Check out "Sense Flip Clock & Weather"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.senseflipclockweather

There are still negative comments flowing in from the shake out but I've been in touch with them and am really confident about it getting fixed for everyone soon.

Plus check out his others if you'd like similar but with a face lift. (Plus, you can alter a lot with the themes for some of them.)

Check out "Weather Underground"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wunderground.android.weather

Wunderground is one of kind because it's getting networked reports from every weather hobbyist in your vicinity.

Check out "RadarNow!"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usnaviguide.radar_now

I use that one and there are other good ones out there too.

Hope this helps.
 
On your home screen, long press your weather widget - follow the cue on screen to remove it.

It won't be uninstalled, you can get it back any time.

Long press the empty space.

Chose to place there your Droid27 widget if that's what you chose.

Let Droid27 control the others.
 
Thanks for your suggestions ... I do know how to work Android !

However Droid 27 and RadarNow need 2.3 Gingerbread, Weather Underground needs 4.0 ICS. I know you could upgrade the Desire to 2.3 (never an off air update), but the upgrade / kernel is no longer available on the HTCdev site, and I'd be worried about implications on available RAM, not to mention possibly bricking the device.

I wonder if the issues Droid 27 seems to be having is because they were getting their weather data from the same source as the native HTC app ?

There are 3rd party clock / weather widgets for Android 2.2 but none are as nice looking and as functional as the native app or the Droid 27 skins ...

Really hope this gets sorted as I'm sure that there's still a lot of fustrated legacy users of the Desire, who like me are otherwise really happy with the compact phone for PAYG basics like SMS, email, GPS/maps and web news; and use a small tablet for things like e-reader and video.
 
Droid27 went through 3 other services before setting on to openweathermap.org - I wouldn't be surprised if one of the earlier ones matched what you have.

Dang. :(

Devs are supposed to list version restrictions, I tried to check, I must have missed the obvious. :(

PS - nothing personal on how to work Android - I've learned the hard way that I often return to threads like this with the questions pending, so I just tossed that out there. Almost a certainty that it helped some silent lurker new to this stuff, so there we are. :)
 
If you wanted to try the 2.3 upgrade you can still find it here (near the bottom of the page). You'd have to unzip the file and the RUU .exe is inside it. Since it is a ROM Upgrade Utility it will erase the phone if you run it, so do back up anything important first. And it is a one-way process: without rooting the phone there is no way of reverting to Froyo.

That said, RAM management is better with 2.3 than 2.2, so I'd not be so worried about that aspect.

(I have a Desire in my drawer still, but would have to do a bit of hacking before I could install a HTC ROM on it to look at any of this myself ).
 
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