I've searched for this issue without success.
I love my HD2, but the weather it displays is simply wrong.
The temperatures are often (almost all the time), much different from reality, and what I mean by reality is the actual temperature in my city as reported by Environment Canada.
For example, right now it's 12C, but my HD2 is reporting 8C. Yes, I just updated the phone, and this problem occurs virtually ALL the time.
The actual weather conditions are often wrong, too, but not as often as the temperature differences.
Where does the HD2 get its temperature from? Can it be changed?
Thanks,
Peter
this is true, yesterday i was in Southport,UK..it was bright and sunny and abt 9 or 10 degrees, but for some reason accuweather thought it was 3 degrees with heavy rain. this obv, is not the phones fault..but is there any way we can link the weather app to a more reliable source?
SreePillai said:
this is true, yesterday i was in Southport,UK..it was bright and sunny and abt 9 or 10 degrees, but for some reason accuweather thought it was 3 degrees with heavy rain. this obv, is not the phones fault..but is there any way we can link the weather app to a more reliable source?
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Hmm, "Accuweather" appears to be an oxymoron.
Yes, I wish there was another link to which we could direct the application.
Not Accuweather ... ?
You suggested that it's Accuweather from which the HD2 gets its weather; however, I just checked Accuweather's Canada site, and their information for Mississauga, where I live is, in fact, correct.
So, I wonder where the HD2 gets its data?
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You suggested that it's Accuweather from which the HD2 gets its weather; however, I just checked Accuweather's Canada site, and their information for Mississauga, where I live is, in fact, correct.
So, I wonder where the HD2 gets its data?
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On a related issue, I just tried entering the city where my in-laws live, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
On Accuweather's site, there are five possibilities for Jinhua, but on the HD2, the moment I enter the name Jinhua, there is but ONE selection. How can I be sure it's the right one? I checked all five sites in China, and their weather reports vary widely.
it must be the same place APPLE IPHONE get's its weather update.
Right now it is:
66 degree F on Weather Channel App
My desktop Accuweather displays 68 deg. F
My IPHONE is showing 43 deg. F and rainy. It's not raining outside - Its sunny!
Weather very strange ...
Okay, now I'm even more confused.
I noticed on the main weather screen a link to "More Detail Online" towards the lower right. I clicked on that and got Accuweather's mobile site for my location, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Now here's what's strange: According to Environment Canada, the current temperature is 9C at Pearson Airport, not far from where I live, and where the weather facility is located.
My HD2 main screen, just updated, says that the temperature is 3C, but when I click on the link noted above, and go to the online site, Accuweather says it's 9C, the accurate temperature.
Why does my HD2 main screen not reflect Accuweather's data, the site from which it gets its weather?
Anyone?
This is really stupid. What's the point of having weather on your main screen if it's not accurate (not even remotely accurate), especially with such a great home screen weather display?
It's obvious that Sense uses Accuweather as its source. Question though is it the phone/software that messes up so there are sometimes huge differences between phone and Accuweather website ? Try another weather program to find that out. I can recommend you two excellent programs:
1. Touch Weather, which has multiple providers, such as AccuWeather, GisMeteo, Wetter.com, etc (www.touch-weather.com). There is a 15 day trial of the Pro version
2. G-Weather from www.ageye.de (only for Europeans). Also here a trial version.
Personally I use Touch Weather, G-Weather, SPB Weather and Sense UI weather in that order.
P.S. In most cases Sense is giving me the right weather information of my choosen location.
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I really do like having the weather displayed right on the today screen of my 8525. But what is the least resource intensive weather app with a today screen plugin?
Also anyone know if any of the weather plugins offer a realtime temperature, with periodic updates maybe hourly?
Pocket Weather offers and pretty good weather app. Timed updates (as little as 15 minutes I think), a good today plugin too.
Don't know how memory intensive it is, doesn't bother me.
GPetrow said:
Pocket Weather offers and pretty good weather app. Timed updates (as little as 15 minutes I think), a good today plugin too.
Don't know how memory intensive it is, doesn't bother me.
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I think I tried that one and it updated the forecast but not the LIVE temp.
SBSH PocketWeather can be configured to update current temperatures every 5 minute.
Also, you can configure a "time-out" after which the temperature information becames outdated. I.e. if not updated, you won't have on your screen in the evening the temperature from last update at noon.
I didn't take the time to measure PocketWeather's used resources, but they are acceptable to me (i.e. no evident slow-downs or high memory usage because of it).
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I think I tried that one and it updated the forecast but not the LIVE temp.
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This happened to me too - Live temperature was not updated. So I switched from the default METAR station to another one which was closer to my location.
Since then, the temperature is updated every 15 minutes, as I configured it (so it actually changes after the update ).
I have used sbsh pocket weather, and on my wizard, i really did notice slowdown. I'm not worried so much about memory as i am about cpu usage.
And as for updates, you can have it updated every 5 minutes. but the source that you download seems to only be updated once every 15 minutes(at least for my area). Thats still good enough, but i would like it to be more real time.
I rarely ever post these types threads but I found this tonight and had to share with all. It works great and has more weather info than you will ever need.
From The Weather Channel
Know what to expect from your day
Now The Weather Channel is just one click away from your email, your calendar and all the other tools that help you manage your day. Get detailed forecasts, severe weather alerts, airport delays and more in a software package designed specifically for your device.
Radar Maps that pan, zoom and animate
Ability to save multiple locations for fast, easy access
Customizable Home Page
Video forecasts on select devices (WORKS GREAT WITH MEDIA PLAYER ON MY XV6800)
Annual or monthly pricing plans (PM me for some inside info on this)
Download application here:
http://www.weather.com/mobile/pda.html
How to Patch:
Go into your PPC registry and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TWC\twc\Internal
Change nrl value to 9999
You will be able to try The Weather Channel 9999 more times.
I like this one better from local XDA Developer and others. Check out link;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401781
And it is free. Cool, Animated weather icons like the Diamond
gives you tons of information. Not to difficult to install and use.
Edit: Of course Donations are welcomed by the developer.
been there used that and uses memeory, this one from weather channel doesnt use nothin just sittin there and very fast when open even the weather videos that play in media player load and play fast
just my 2cents
it isn't using much memory for me. Sure some but not much. When I was using continuous looping icons it sure did use a lot of mem plus huge drain on battery, but with single loop - not much mem use. Also I have it set up in Ultimate launch on it's own page and the plugin is disabled when not in use, so not much mem use then. I have not had any problems yet, and I have been keeping an eye on the memory consumption.
I'm quite fond of SBSH's Pocket Weather. Very nifty program with an awesome today plugin.
okyourabeast said:
I'm quite fond of SBSH's Pocket Weather. Very nifty program with an awesome today plugin.
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+1 for Pocket Weather.
I like to be able to glance down and see the current conditions, the forecast and radar any time I want without hitting buttons and waiting for it to load or paying a monthly fee.
PhoneAlarm has a weather feature and it's an awesome phone / profile management program. It's not free, but it's great.
Yean not bad. Only $35 EVERY year to use it and they are on average 10 degrees off on thier forcasts for my area. I use weatherbug. Its free and accurate. You can have the current temp displayed on the top bar if you want so you arent having to take up Today Screen space.
Hi!
I've been using the Stock Exchange feature of my HD to track a few Stocks, Currency rates, etc.
It displays beautifully, but... charts does NOT match the numbers!
I have to reload twice, even three times to see the "cristal" graph chart to accurately display the numeric values. If this is the beginning of the day, the numbers look random sometimes, and does not make any sense.
If you click the chart, then the "white" graph displays the right data, but you can never be sure that "yellow on black lines" are showing the right info, sometimes really hard to read.
Also the green/red variation numbers do not reflect daily variations.
Any ideas?
No one has noticed?
Regards.
I've noticed this too, but don't really care as the "3d" graphs are a joke anyway. Quotes are from Yahoo Finance and are pretty accurate (15 min delay for LSE).
milan_ns said:
I've noticed this too, but don't really care as the "3d" graphs are a joke anyway. Quotes are from Yahoo Finance and are pretty accurate (15 min delay for LSE).
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Well, that's true, but if you leave home/office early after a quick sync, and you don't have an internet connection, then the only info available are 3D charts..... since the Yahoo resources are only available while on-line, this is my point.
I'm a frequent flyer, and having the info updated and accurate is important to me. No big deal but I don't understand where the failure lies.
Regards.
You're not the only one!
If it's any consolation I have the same problem. The numbers are correct but the graph doesn't match the numbers. As you say, doing an update 2 or 3 times normally fixes it.
WM 6 bug or TF3D?
Moandal said:
If it's any consolation I have the same problem. The numbers are correct but the graph doesn't match the numbers. As you say, doing an update 2 or 3 times normally fixes it.
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Thanks for the info.
It's not consolation, but helps not to feel alone... ;-)
My point is that being it an integral part of TF3D, -so that means installed in thousands of machines-, nobody seems to complain about this lack of accuracy. I read endless threads regarding the appearance of a single "battery" or BT icon, and no one cares about econonomy and stats/graph data? Quite surprising, looks like everybody is using HTC machines only as i-pods.......
Just joking! Don't fire too much on me!
Regards.
That's why the new TF3D (used by Duttytroy in Xtreme 1.9) has a new stock chart tab. There, you only get the daily chart when going into the (white colored) yahoo chart. The (black colored) main page only shows the list of your watched items, and movement for the day with no chart.
Killing the messenger.....
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That's why the new TF3D (used by Duttytroy in Xtreme 1.9) has a new stock chart tab. There, you only get the daily chart when going into the (white colored) yahoo chart. The (black colored) main page only shows the list of your watched items, and movement for the day with no chart.
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I've tried other dutty's ROMs, not 1.9, but what you explain to me looks mostly as a workaround, not a solution to a bug: The chart displays wrong? Then don't show the graph!
The list of wached items is already side-by-side with the yahoo white charts when you hit "see all", not a big deal, but one more step than needed.
Thanks for pointing to Dutty's ROMs, they are great!
Regards.
Hello,
How does one control the homescreen weather app (new verizon imagio)? I live in Raleigh, and have set the cities to figure out current city, Raleigh, and London. But for some reason, the homescreen app is displaying information for Secunderabad (high of 109, low of 80), which must actually be somewhere in BFE...so WTF?
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I live in Chapel Hill, down the road from you, and I sometimes have it tell me I'm in Chisnau (no idea where this is-Google Maps is telling me Moldova), but I wonder if it has anything to do with the GPS maybe not getting signal, or sufficient signal? Happens when I'm at work more than not, inside a metal building.
Good luck!
Travis K.
Hi there,
Not sure if this is a Quantum issue or a WP7 issue, but some of my Live Tiles aren't so "Live" anymore.
Particularly Weatherbug doesn't update anymore. The app is fine, but the tile is not.
I removed locations, changed Live Tile settings, uninstalled, reinstalled, unpinned it, rebooted, re-pinned it, etc.
I'm wondering if it is a another app that does Live Tile things that busted it. For instance, OMG (the game) wouldn't start when I installed the really terrible Amazon app (which put itself in Games for some reason). Once the Amazon app was gone, OMG was fine.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this, and if they found a fix.
Thanks,
TTFN
Gregg
Same issue with weatherbug... only updates if I go into the app and look at the weather...
I was having the same problem too, but it fixes itself somehow... maybe on weatherbug's side?
Drop Weatherbug and switch to Weather Channel. It's better anyway.
I think it was an app conflict. The AP News app also had a stuck Dead Tile.
After I moved Smug Seven off the home screen, opened AP a couple times, the WeatherBug and AP tiles started to update again. It wasn't just WeatherBug. I think it was an implementation bug in Smug Seven (it was a new app feature back then).
As an aside (since nobody asked)... I had both Weather Channel and WeatherBug installed. And a couple other weather things. I ditched Weather Channel because the design of the app is a total afterthought for WP7. I didn't like their iPhone app either. Weather Channel wanted you to buy their real app. Maybe they have the same strategy here too.
Anyway, to me it looks cluttered. It could just be the background image fighting with the foreground info. It also hung on me a few times.
Visually, I think WeatherBug's app looks cleaner and has more of the details I like. It also leverages the Metro metaphor's strengths (like being able to flick between summaries and hourly forecasts). It has a few weird things too and some of the features may be hidden to some users (like tapping the city name).
At least we have some apps to choose from!
TTFN
Gregg