Weather App not updating properly

[rowlarry]

Whilst I am aware that this happens occasionally at HTC's end, I just wanted to share some of the weird things that have happened recently.

The weather app is behaving erratically - have all location services enabled (bar GPS) and it refused to update the 'current location' when it auto syncs, or when I manually force it to sync. It has been stuck at the location I was in yesterday which isn't much use!

I have tried deleting the widget and reloading etc.
The only thing which makes it update is if I turn off 'Fastboot' and do a power cycle, then it works?

Anyone else had the same thing? Anything obvious I am missing?

 

[peterc10]

Look in menu > location. Have you got "use wireless networks" ticked?

Also menu > Accounts and Sync. Have you got both background data and auto-sync ticked? Also has "weather" got a green circle next to it?

 

[rowlarry]

Hello Peter

I have all of your suggestions enabled. I used to have a Desire and am familiar with the Weather widget, just frustrating as it doesn't seem to work in the same way on the sensation?

Only seems to update after a power cycle...

 

[peterc10]

You asked for suggestions for anything obvious so I came up with them! And it will come as no consolation to you to learn that this works fine on my Sensation (touch wood), so it is not a general problem with the Sensation.

 

[pjj_mew]

I too have this same issue with my HTC Sensation. It used to update fine until a couple of weeks ago. On the widget, it now displays the message 'No weather data available'. If I select the widget so the program starts, it then connects and updates. I have not changed any settings but it wont auto update.

My wife has an HTC Desire and it works fine on that.

 

[pjj_mew]

Found this on a different forum (actually for the HTC Incredible). Some users were reporting that a setting had been changed after an HTC upgrade?:

'I had that same exact issue after disabling the "always on" function in the mobile network settings. It was fine after I enabled it again. Curious if anybody here has it unchecked. '

I checked my 'always on setting' and it was unchecked. I changed it a good couple of hours ago and so far it is working fine. Will post again tomorrow with an update.

 

[Sierrakat]

Look in menu > location. Have you got "use wireless networks" ticked?

Also menu > Accounts and Sync. Have you got both background data and auto-sync ticked? Also has "weather" got a green circle next to it?

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I know next to nothing about settings and things, and this is the only helpful post I have been able to find anywhere on this. (It also resolved the issue I was having with gmail, same exact thing - it just wouldn't sync.)

 

[peterc10]

Your welcome. Don't forget to hit the "thanks" button in my original post.

 

[pjj_mew]

Since changing the setting to 'always on', my weather has been working fine, syncing and updating as it should. Don't know how the setting was changed in the first place.

 

[lio52]

Since changing the setting to 'always on', my weather has been working fine, syncing and updating as it should. Don't know how the setting was changed in the first place.

The only cautinary note about having the settings at always on when using mobile network, is monitoring data usage

 

[peterc10]

The only cautinary note about having the settings at always on when using mobile network, is monitoring data usage

Easy with 3G Watchdog app and widget - free from the market

 

[EddyOS]

Sense 3.5 comes with a built in data counter! Monitors Data, Calls and SMS

 

[peterc10]

Sense 3.5 comes with a built in data counter! Monitors Data, Calls and SMS

But the Sensation comes with Sense 3.0 and it doesn't.