Standard Weather Not Updating

[mhseris]

I'm sure the answer is somewhere in the forums, but I couldn't find it. So apologies in advance if it is obvious!

Recent quirk - my Eris all of a sudden insists that the sun is shining at 9:30 PM, and conversely that the moon is out at 8:00 AM (times approximate). I go into the main weather screen, it updates, looks fine, I go back to the home screen, still way off.

Eventually it does "match" -right now, 1:50 PM, the Eris says "intermittent clouds" and looking out the window what bits of sky I can see are mostly cloudy. But it is a bit disconcerting to be sitting at the baseball game, pull out the Eris to check the time, and have a nice happy sun staring at me when it is way past sundown.

Is there a fix, or is this just the way it is?

thanks...

 

[TheNextCompanion]

There is a similar issue reported here:

http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/53504-com-htc-provider-has-stopped.html

It would be easier for folks here to help you if you let them know if you're running 1.5 or 2.1 leak (and which leak) and also whether you're using any kind of task killer.

Good luck with getting it fixed!

 

[mhseris]

Running 1.5. Not the same issue - no force close, no error messages, just the home page weather widget doesn't show the real weather (but going into the weather app gives perfectly reasonable information). I don't run ATK - I've been listening, in a virtual sense, to OtD since December. I do have TaskPanel, but only use it to see what's running (in case I forget to exit something), not to kill things.

 

[Medic005]

I remember reading somewhere on the forums, that the stock weather app only updates every 3 hours under 1.5, but on 2.1 you can set the update frequency. So, maybe that's your issue, is it's between the 3 hour update cycle. Can open the app and do the update manually?

 

[Mark16q]

Same issue for me, no task killers, 1.5 pretty standard setup. The last few nights have been quite sunny apparently. No matter how many times I try to refresh, it still insists weve got Northern Lights.

 

[Caddyman]

Remove the widget

reboot phone

replace widget

 

[confluence]

I'm sure the answer is somewhere in the forums, but I couldn't find it. So apologies in advance if it is obvious!

Recent quirk - my Eris all of a sudden insists that the sun is shining at 9:30 PM, and conversely that the moon is out at 8:00 AM (times approximate). I go into the main weather screen, it updates, looks fine, I go back to the home screen, still way off.

Eventually it does "match" -right now, 1:50 PM, the Eris says "intermittent clouds" and looking out the window what bits of sky I can see are mostly cloudy. But it is a bit disconcerting to be sitting at the baseball game, pull out the Eris to check the time, and have a nice happy sun staring at me when it is way past sundown.

Is there a fix, or is this just the way it is?

thanks...

Try changing the settings so that the Weather updates ever hour. I think it is defaulted to only update every 3 hours.

To change this, open the weather app -> touch menu -> then settings -> then update frequency.

 

[mhseris]

Remove the widget

reboot phone

replace widget

OK - but before I do that (and I will, I trust you ) - what is the name of the widget with the big flip clock and weather underneath it? I don't want to delete it and then not be able to find it again! (This is the one part of the home screen I've not messed with, as I liked the way it looked from day 1).

And just to clarify - are we talking reboot as in power off and power on, or reboot as in battery pull? If it was my desktop, I'd know - but it isn't obvious (to me at least) which is which, as people seem to use them interchangeably.

thanks!

 

[mhseris]

Try changing the settings so that the Weather updates ever hour. I think it is defaulted to only update every 3 hours.

To change this, open the weather app -> touch menu -> then settings -> then update frequency.

I don't have "update frequency" - just a checkbox (which is checked) to say "update automatically". And even if I do a manual update inside the app it doesn't carry over to the home screen. Moon in the app, happy sun on the home screen (last night).

Gonna try the remove widget sequence that Caddy suggested. Will report back.

 

[confluence]

I don't have "update frequency" - just a checkbox (which is checked) to say "update automatically". And even if I do a manual update inside the app it doesn't carry over to the home screen. Moon in the app, happy sun on the home screen (last night).

Gonna try the remove widget sequence that Caddy suggested. Will report back.

Sounds like 1.5

 

[Caddyman]

the widget it

hold screen

htc widgets

clock

one of those.

 

[coolerinthecorner]

the widget it

hold screen

htc widgets

clock

one of those.

Caddyman's right. This is a problem with 1.5 as well as GPS location inside of Google maps. Just delete the widget and then add it back to you're homescreen and you'll see a big improvement. Or you could just bite the bullet and move to 2.1 ver.2. Sooo... much better. It's like a new phone and allows you to choose update frequency to the hour for this widget.

I have the weather widget setting alone one it's own home screen because I live in Iowa and the weather here changes every 15 minutes. Just added a cool looking analog clock to my top home screen and all is well.

I loved the look of the original widget as well but decided to just dump the combination because it never worked correctly.

By the way. Going from digital clock to analog was a trip. It took me ALL day to get used to it and sort of learning how to tell time again. Ten years of digital and looking at a wristwatch again was just bizarre. Good luck.

 

[Romparoo]

Alright, I am having a very similar problem. Running 2.1 v2

For about 2 or 3 days now sometime the weather app under the clock will be blank. It wont appear until I open up the weather and press refresh. Then I go to settings and select "update automatically" where I am asked "yes" or "no" to some data warning, I hit "yes" and then back arrow. When I go back to the setting "update automatically" is unchecked again.

It doesn't matter how many times I do it, or how I exit (hitting back button, home button) whenever I go back to settings it is unchecked.

I did what Caddy said, removed the widget, power off, I even removed the battery. I have uninstalled the few apps I have downloaded since this problem occurred.

I have no idea what to do now.

 

[c00gz]

I tried everything I could think of to get it to update too - if I clicked on it, it was fine, but on the home screen it always said it was sunny until 11 pm and the moon was out until 10 am.

I finally got tired of it, downloaded Weather Widget - Free from market and the Weather Widget Forcast add-on by Android Apps. Works a lot better, and updates every 30 mins.

I guess if you like the big flippy clock you may not want to do this, but I'm a lot happier with it.

 

[Romparoo]

I just want it to work right, it has been up to 3 days ago. I can update it manually but who wants to do that!

 

[Papadroid]

I stopped using it altogether. It was just plain annoying. I purchased Weahter & Toggles widgets which has an almost identical flip clock with weather minus the animations.

 

[coolerinthecorner]

Running 2.1 v2 and the stock HTC widget never really worked properly on 1.5 either. I just dumped it instead of holding out hope that it may one day work properly. It won't. It looks cool but the code was poorly written and tested from the start.
I installed Weather Bug from the market, have it set to update every 30 min. (it updates automatically every time you awaken your phone by the way) and it has been flawless since. You can change the background color or just leave it off like I do then just add a seperate clock to your home screen. I thought I'd miss it but I don't at all and the original took up a big chunk of screen in my opinion.
So I guess my advice is to just go in another direction until the Official OTA Update comes out, if ever for this phone. They may have it fixed by then.

 

[NickDroid86]

My weather is doing thesame thing on my new eris 1.5

 

[Bswartz95]

Does anyone know where the HTC widget pulls its weather data from? How about Beautiful Widgets & Weather Widget Donate? I wonder if they are all the same place.

Currently, I'm using Beautiful Widgets and it seems pretty accurate.

 

[coolerinthecorner]

I'm pretty sure it uses Accuweather.

By the way I'm fairly sure that you need to have your Google account set to automatically sync for the app. to work properly. But I don't use Gmail as my primary although I have a few accounts for other reasons. Location and accuracy still SUCKS with this app., even with GPS turned on so my previous post still holds. Just don't use it. There are so many other WORKING widgets out there for free.

 

[Romparoo]

I'm pretty sure it uses Accuweather.

By the way I'm fairly sure that you need to have your Google account set to automatically sync for the app. to work properly.

That's it! It works! I guess my accounts got unchecked for automatic updates in the settings I thought I checked all of those, but oh well. I should have realized this, I use my phone for my emails and haven't had any for days, just set it to auto update and got 45 emails at once!

To check:
-from home screen:
-menu-settings-accounts&sync-select auto sync

I double checked my weather settings and my check mark for weather update was checked and stays checked.

 

[coolerinthecorner]

Glad to hear it's workng for you now. How Long?... Only time will tell.

 

[Romparoo]

LOL. I think it will work just fine. Like I said, mine and my wifes always worked great.

 

[coolerinthecorner]

That's good to hear. Enjoy the weather. It's always there.

 

[Tardif2005]

Thanks worked! Glad to know what the weather is now not what it was 4 hours ago!