Help Clock/weather widget - won't display "current location"

[NiceCupOfTea]

This is driving me mad!

I've had my Hero on Orange for 4 or 5 days now and apart from when I first switched on the phone the weather app has just said "No weather data available" and the clock/weather widget has just had my location. I have the "location by cell" thing switched on, and I did manage to get it working once with the GPS, but other than that it just displays my location. It's the same whatever location I am in. The other cities download the weather just fine (London, Paris, New York, etc.). It's not like I'm somewhere tiny either, I am in Bromley. It doesn't make any difference whether I'm using WiFi or 3G.

I have seen mention of this elsewhere but no cure. Why do some people have this working fine and for others it doesn't work at all?

 

[tragicheart]

I pretty much have the same issue.

I posted a thread earlier here:
http://androidforums.com/htc-hero/8157-current-city-issues.html

Some people had suggested to delete all the weather cities and that should give you your current city you are in. Give this a shot and see if it works for you.

This worked for me at first, but now its back to just saying "current city" instead of my actual city name, and the weather is not correct.

I've asked HTC support but still waiting for an answer.

 

[Artaq]

I do not think this is a phone issue and more at the weather stations end that records and sends the data. I live in Dorset and pass by two differernt record areas to and from work. The issue sometimes happends with any one at any time. I have tested the signal by loading other web based apps fine and also got the full weather report from the same app.

 

[Slug]

It only seems to acknowledge a very strict selection of 'cities'. I'm stuck in "Highland", which a quick glance at a map will tell you is a bleeping big area! My closest choice is 'Aberdeen', which is 110 miles away on the opposite coast ffs.

/Al

 

[NiceCupOfTea]

Interesting - I went into London tonight. Phone said I was in "Kensington" and the weather widget / clock both worked fine. I could even scroll to "Bromley" and it would download the weather for that.

I'm now home again via Victoria which seems to be "London" and it is still saying London (and working correctly).

So, it's not Bromley (because it can download the data when I am in a different location and it's working properly) and it's not "current location" as when I am in a different area it works fine.

What on earth is up with this and why doesn't affect everybody?

 

[justjimjpc]

Interesting - I went into London tonight. Phone said I was in "Kensington" and the weather widget / clock both worked fine. I could even scroll to "Bromley" and it would download the weather for that.

I'm now home again via Victoria which seems to be "London" and it is still saying London (and working correctly).

So, it's not Bromley (because it can download the data when I am in a different location and it's working properly) and it's not "current location" as when I am in a different area it works fine.

What on earth is up with this and why doesn't affect everybody?

I dont know for sure but is it possible that the location info is from the cell tower and the tower is misidentified in the apps data-lookup ... thus giving the wrong location ...

 

[NiceCupOfTea]

But it says "Location - Bromley"!

The clock has now updated and says I am back in Bromley - and is showing the weather!

However, the weather widget says "no weather data available" for Bromley (Current).

How can one work and not the other?

Needs looking at, HTC!

I will email support about the problem as well.

 

[tragicheart]

This is the response I received:
"I understand how frustrating it is to want your city on the weather application.

What I did to put our city, which was not in the list either on our test device, was to go to tap the plus sign and then tap My Location. This allowed me to be able to view the city. Have you tried to do the search for your city? If your city does not come up tap the location and try dragging the thumbtack to see if you can find your city."

This did not work, but at least they were prompt in responding.

I live in Canada, when i did the "My Location" it finds my city and then my province . This matches the "current city" weather that I get on my home page, but when I use the "+" and add my city (shows up as city, Canada), this gives me a completely different weather (which is more accurate than the "current city" one .

I suppose this is just a weather app issue.

 

[NiceCupOfTea]

My city is definitely in the database as it works when I am elsewhere and I view it. As I say, the clock/weather app worked last night too - it worked fine until I changed theme, and then it just displayed the location "bromley" and no weather next to it.

It knows where I am, no problem!

 

[Sorcerer]

The problme i am having is that the weather does not update when i am in leicester. The location does update but the weather does not.

Does anybody else have the same problem?

 

[justjimjpc]

The problme i am having is that the weather does not update when i am in leicester. The location does update but the weather does not.

Does anybody else have the same problem?

It might be that there is no weather input into the database for that location ... or it is misspelled ???

 

[Sorcerer]

It might be that there is no weather input into the database for that location ... or it is misspelled ???

I selected the link and it does go to the accuweather.com website and Leicester come up without any problems.

 

[justjimjpc]

I selected the link and it does go to the accuweather.com website and Leicester come up without any problems.

Well, it was a thought ... have you deleted the widget ... turned off phone ... reboot and re-download and install it again ?

 

[Sorcerer]

Well, it was a thought ... have you deleted the widget ... turned off phone ... reboot and re-download and install it again ?

It's the HTC Clock and weather widget. How can you unistall that widget.

 

[justjimjpc]

It's the HTC Clock and weather widget. How can you unistall that widget.

Not sure ... widgets are handled in multiple ways ...

as parts of themes
as parts of apps
as part of a particular build ...

Maybe some knows the details of your hero widgets ... I don't

 

[G8D]

Mine finds "East Dumbartonshire" with ease.
Also updated to "North Lanakshire" when I was out last week..

 

[daffyduck]

It's the HTC Clock and weather widget. How can you unistall that widget.

Not sure if you would really want to try this as the Weather application is embedded into quite a bit of the Hero software, but uninstall would be via the Manage Applications section of Settings.

 

[NiceCupOfTea]

Hmm, the clock weather thing seems to be working a bit better - seems to update the location and weather OK now, but it's usually wrong! At the moment it's showing "clear" as in the nighttime setting, rather than sunny or whatever. Pretty pointless if it can't update dynamically.

The weather widget is still broken - "no weather data available", despite it showing the weather in the clock widget.

HTC, as ever, claim there's no problem - try a hard reset

I'm starting to get really hacked off with this phone. Using Copilot on a long journey yesterday the GPS kept losing reception and 3 times it lost it permanently, requiring quitting the program and restarting. Not ideal when you're just trying to get somewhere. I have no doubt that ALK (CoPilot) will blame HTC and vice versa.

I love the phone but all the stuff that my Windows Mobile TyTN II did without a problem seems to be broken on the Hero.

As ever it is the punters doing their beta testing...

 

[daffyduck]

Why use CoPilot when you can use Google Maps? Used this plus GPS to drive down into Dorset last week and it was pretty much no problem at all.

Having had issues with adding some apps, I get the feeling that if the built-in functionality is sufficient, best results are had.

Weather app on my phone seems okay.

 

[NiceCupOfTea]

GoogleMaps is very very primitive in comparison to CoPilot.

For a start googlemaps relies on an internet connection and will kill your data allowance!

CoPilot does proper turn-by-turn nav with voice prompts, with all sorts of speed camera alerts, lane advice, etc.

I've been using the previous version on Windows Mobile for 18 months and it's a very good bit of software, at least as good than TomTom.

There are a few bugs in the Android implementation but hopefully they can be ironed out soon.

 

[murrayalex]

Same here. I live in Edinburgh and I get the error message too. I added Aberdeen and it works just fine. I tried deleting all the other cities and starting afresh but no joy and now I am left with about 10 Edinburgh entries which very annoyingly are greyed out and cannot be deleted.
It is a real pity as the app is so nice and the other weather apps I have tried have been mediocre.

 

[Polarskates]

Same here. I live in Edinburgh and I get the error message too. I added Aberdeen and it works just fine. I tried deleting all the other cities and starting afresh but no joy and now I am left with about 10 Edinburgh entries which very annoyingly are greyed out and cannot be deleted.
It is a real pity as the app is so nice and the other weather apps I have tried have been mediocre.

Edinburgh here too and also showing the 'no data available' msg. Strange because i'm sure it was working the first day I turned the phone on? Tried a few different places, Falkirk, Dundee, Aberdeen etc and they all show fine? Also have about 8-10 grey'd out Edinburgh's in my list which i can't delete. Downloaded Weatherbug Elite and i'm using that now, which works perfectly.

If anybody can find a solution then i'm sure there'd be quite a few grateful people!

 

[murrayalex]

How odd. Seems like people can add other nearby locations and they work fine, when I first added Edinburgh it worked okay but next time I opened the app it started playing up, I've tried adding Edinburgh via "My Location" and adding manually and neither work. Hmmmmm.

 

[Kranky]

Why on earth (haha) is my weather/clock app saying that I'm in Chesapeake?
I'm on the other dog damn side of the atlantic; Thorshavn, Faroe Islands.
I can add Thorshavn, it works fine, but it keeps showing Chesapeake. I can delete all the cities except Chesapeake.. WTF!?
How do I make Thorshavn my current city (or at least the Faroe Islands)?

 

[PatBateman]

Hmmmmm cheesecake