Help Droid MultiMedia Station - Weather updates

[blue rocket]

i heard google was having some issues with weather... that could be it, because last night was the first time i had an issue with weather on the dock.

 

[chuk1005]

I too am having this issue, hopefully accuweather willg et it together.

 

[640k]

Couldn't tell you, I put in my zip code 60601 and it reports 'No result found'
I put in the zip code next to me (60606) and it reports 'No result found'
I put in the name of the city & state (Chicago, IL) and it says 'No result found'

Apparently Chicago has no weather today! (maybe it's too friggin cold for acuweather to register?)

exact issue i'm having, that i suspect others are too. nothing for Cincinnati, OH.

Well I was hoping that I would not have this issue but it started last night. I docked my droid and glanced at the temp..... dashes! We were having a snow storm in NY so I figured that might be it so I tried to look it up with the weather.com app i have installed, worked perfectly???

So here is what I have and what I have tried to fix it:
-I have dock runner installed and have had weather.com since the day I got the phone.
-I have tried to set the location manually and automatically. However now I can not set it manually for some reason.
-I have killed the app with app killer and the on board app manager, no changes.
-Old faithful, the battery pull....NOTHING!
-I uninstalled weather.com and tried, no changes. Reinstalled then of course and tried again, nothing.

I do not want to hard reset my phone for the 4th time in one month for this fix so I hope it is just an android issue that will be fixed in the next patch. If anyone finds a fix help us all out.

don't hard-reset. it won't fix anything. i've already tried.

 

[mode]

Well I was hoping that I would not have this issue but it started last night. I docked my droid and glanced at the temp..... dashes! We were having a snow storm in NY so I figured that might be it so I tried to look it up with the weather.com app i have installed, worked perfectly???

So here is what I have and what I have tried to fix it:
-I have dock runner installed and have had weather.com since the day I got the phone.
-I have tried to set the location manually and automatically. However now I can not set it manually for some reason.
-I have killed the app with app killer and the on board app manager, no changes.
-Old faithful, the battery pull....NOTHING!
-I uninstalled weather.com and tried, no changes. Reinstalled then of course and tried again, nothing.

I do not want to hard reset my phone for the 4th time in one month for this fix so I hope it is just an android issue that will be fixed in the next patch. If anyone finds a fix help us all out.

Try setting your location manually by entering your zip code.

I wonder which side is responsible for determining location by zip code. I'd imagine it's Accuweather. I suspect they changed the interface that the dock app is using.

I think we can all safely conclude it wasn't the weather.com app judging from the number of other people experiencing this issue.

 

[BamaBlue]

"It found my latitude and longitude but still could not provide me with any weather updates. When I tried to manually set the location again, it could not find my zip code (or any that I typed in)! Then I tried county, city, and state ... nothing. "

Same problem here - it will not recognize my location by city/state OR zip code. It locks onto my long/lat just fine, but still only dashes on the display. Been like this for a few days now.

My droid is still pre-update, but nothing I have read about 2.0.1 seems to address this issue.

Put me on team "More than Annoyed"...!

 

[Coldmiser]

...I uninstalled weather.com and tried, no changes. Reinstalled then of course and tried again, nothing...

The weather.com app doesn't have anything to do with it, the weather shown in the dock is from AccuWeather.

 

[istolvampire]

I have started to have this issue for the last two days.Was working but now can't set location and doesn't show at all.

 

[640k]

Here's a thread on Google:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...D Type Status Owner Summary Stars#makechanges

Be sure to vote on it so that it gets attention.

 

[galante2123]

The weather.com app doesn't have anything to do with it, the weather shown in the dock is from AccuWeather.

Was just willing to try anything to see if it would work. Only conflict I could think of really.

 

[LarryQW]

I been noting that the posts here about missing the weather info on the Multimedia Station or DockRunner app all seem synchronized.

Everyone' weather info seems to go bad on the same days, be bad for a day or two no matter what, and then magically recover, for no good reason, all about the same time.

All this seems to indicate a problem with the server somewhere, unless we all psychically connected through our Droids?

 

[jonathansullivan]

+1
Starred

 

[mode]

I been noting that the posts here about missing the weather info on the Multimedia Station or DockRunner app all seem synchronized.

Everyone' weather info seems to go bad on the same days, be bad for a day or two no matter what, and then magically recover, for no good reason, all about the same time.

All this seems to indicate a problem with the server somewhere, unless we all psychically connected through our Droids?

Hmm we should probably check more frequently and post our results. Personally speaking, I haven't had any luck with it for at least 1 week.

 

[640k]

mine stopped working after the update. has been working fine since 11/6, with the exception of it not auto-refreshing my current location.

 

[blue rocket]

^it's not update related...mine didnt work last night... before i got my update this morning.

 

[malklavious]

I second the notion that it is server side and not phone side. All the Droid owners in my office are not getting weather results in the Dock.

 

[droidn]

+1 starrred, this is annoying, it worked fine for me pre 2.0.1....

 

[scorpicon]

My weather's been missing for a couple days now. Despite the OTA updating coming in last night, it was still missing this morning.

I'd like to think it's a server issue, and it'll get fixed soon... but who knows.

 

[LarryQW]

+1 starrred, this is annoying, it worked fine for me pre 2.0.1....

A post on the "update" thread said they had the problem either way.
http://androidforums.com/174405-post695.html

A lot of it looks to be timing. I noted everyone posting that their weather started working suddenly about the same time as mine, spontaneously.

Weather continued to work for me at least a couple days ago. My phone is only in the dock every ~3 days, when I charge it.

Then when a number of posts spontaneously appear today say it stopped working again, I checked and mine doesn't work again either.

As for those who say it doesn't work for a whole week, maybe they don't check often enough to see the times it works, or they have another issue?

 

[jonathansullivan]

Semi off topic, but not worthy of another thread:

WHEN IT IS WORKING: Does anyone else use the dock or dockrunner in two places? When it is working, does it sense location automatically? (I've always had to go into setup and then it picked up the change)...has anyone had it successfully determine a location change?

 

[Timaphillips]

Same problem for me. Suspicious that it stopped working post 2.0.1 update..

 

[mtraina7]

I'm not sure if anyone else is doing this but I just emailed accuweather about the issue. i doubt i'll get a response but i just don't see verizon and/or motorola being able to do anything about this. maybe if enough people write they will notice.

AccuWeather.com

 

[snapcase]

I wonder what feed the dock uses to get the info for the widget. I use a program on my PC called Rainmeter which among other things adds a weather widget to my desktop. Now Rainmeter skins used to use Weather.com as the default for their weather feeds until weather.com decided they could make cash off it and didn't want to keep eating the bandwidth usage. That community has since changed to using Accu-weather. I wonder if the Droid is using the same feed as Rainmeter or other similar programs and the new traffic added by the Droid is simply lagging down their servers. Might be a long shot but a possibility.

 

[mazz0310]

Yay my weather just started working.

 

[mtraina7]

WOAH! me too! I just used the dockrunner and re-ran the location search and it found me and filled in the icons.

Anyonee else?

 

[Barbara]

I just stuck a magnet on mine to put it into mm mode and the weather was on there without me having to do any search or anything.