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Hello,
I have seen a great deal of posts on the improvement of the Weather display / animation. Even some complaining about or applauding its functionality. Oddly though I have not seen any that ask if it can be removed entirely.
I know this is personal choice but for me I don't want any weather to be displayed at all. Can this be achieved?
Cheers.
rphillip said:
Hello,
I have seen a great deal of posts on the improvement of the Weather display / animation. Even some complaining about or applauding its functionality. Oddly though I have not seen any that ask if it can be removed entirely.
I know this is personal choice but for me I don't want any weather to be displayed at all. Can this be achieved?
Cheers.
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Do you mean the wallpaper animation, or the animation on the clock?
On the clock.I would really prefer no weather at all on my home screen.
rphillip said:
On the clock.I would really prefer no weather at all on my home screen.
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Fair enough. I know how to remove the animated wallpaper, but not the bit on the clock.
I'm sure someone on here must be able to help you though.
To disable weather animation.
1 - go to HKCU/Software/HTC/Manila
and change "HomeWallpaperMode" from "0" to "2" you will end up having your static wallpaper but without weather animation.
or
2 - just select animation wallpaper and choose one of your static ones.and that is it!
Credits go to Polystirenman. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=600528
Neither work. The registry change you mentioned is already set to 2. Actually I did that earlier whilst trying to find a solution. Whatever wallpaper I choose I still see the weather.
Not sure you understood my question completely though. I want to get rid of the weather entirely not just the animation.
Plus one on this .. all this weather mania is beyond me ..
no weather on home 4 me too
me too
i would like to get rid of that too, aleady seen in leo themes section under transparent clock and slider but got no response in how to do that
anybody please?
tudorlv said:
anybody please?
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HKCU/Software/HTC/manila/Home.WallpaperMode
change from dword 0 to dword:1.
Steve0007 said:
HKCU/Software/HTC/manila/Home.WallpaperMode
change from dword 0 to dword:1.
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Tried that thanks. All that did was change my wallpaper. Tried changing it to 2 also. Can't remember what the default was anymore though.
Ok people .. once again .. this thread is about disabling ANY WEATHER INFORMATION on home screen. Not just the wallpaper.
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\HTCServices\WeatherService\WeatherService.dll
Rename to WeatherService.dll.back then soft reset. Rename back to restore.
I have created a cab file for it for those who are interested.
Oh yes indeed. Many thanks that is just right!
It works .. just don't try 'weather settings' from the menu !
Pagnell said:
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\HTCServices\WeatherService\WeatherService.dll
Rename to WeatherService.dll.back then soft reset. Rename back to restore.
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Definetely good trick.. Thanks
But i'm noticed "world clock" feature also disabled with this setting..
I noticed that too. I suspect they're connected and it's unavoidable.
I do it in a different way. I dont like the bugie effect of disabling the weather DLL.
You can disable "my location" and choose my location as your default clock.
When you update the weather, it will not be updated for "my location" and in this way you get a cleaner home screen.
Whenever you want, you can choose your favorite location and get the weather info for it.
I've used Dutty's No Location thing to switch off the location switching as it was working fine but like others now its been updated to 1.66 its stopped.
Question though, is there any way for me to still have the weather wallpaper in the background if My Location is not working?
chrism_scotland said:
I've used Dutty's No Location thing to switch off the location switching as it was working fine but like others now its been updated to 1.66 its stopped.
Question though, is there any way for me to still have the weather wallpaper in the background if My Location is not working?
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add your city manually and select it under the home screen by tapping the clock.
antaed said:
add your city manually and select it under the home screen by tapping the clock.
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Thanks mate! Great!
Two questions about the GS2's Accuweather Widget.
First, it doesn't seem to update the weather without me hitting the update sync, it also doesn't update locations like Beautiful Widgets does.
Second, I'm also using Launcher Pro, but when I try and resize the Accuweather Widget, the blue color back ground doesn't fit.
So anyone know how to resize in LP?
And get the thing to update the weather and locations?
Thanks
bothfly said:
Two questions about the GS2's Accuweather Widget.
First, it doesn't seem to update the weather without me hitting the update sync, it also doesn't update locations like Beautiful Widgets does.
Second, I'm also using Launcher Pro, but when I try and resize the Accuweather Widget, the blue color back ground doesn't fit.
So anyone know how to resize in LP?
And get the thing to update the weather and locations?
Thanks
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Go launcher, launcher pro and adw fail to resize stock widgets correcty.... You can see that in this video too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2wSVzi3Gk
Ok, thought so on LP.
What about the updating of the Accuweather widget and locations?
I'm using the AccuWeather Wideget, and I found that disabling the "Enable current location" on AccuWeather causing the high power consumption service "Wifi Sharing Service" disappear from Battery Status list, it used to take 30-40% of my GS2 battery.
harrists said:
I'm using the AccuWeather Wideget, and I found that disabling the "Enable current location" on AccuWeather causing the high power consumption service "Wifi Sharing Service" disappear from Battery Status list, it used to take 30-40% of my GS2 battery.
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I'll try this now. If it works, you would have solved a problem that has been bugging me since May!
harrists said:
I'm using the AccuWeather Wideget, and I found that disabling the "Enable current location" on AccuWeather causing the high power consumption service "Wifi Sharing Service" disappear from Battery Status list, it used to take 30-40% of my GS2 battery.
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Well I've been running Launcher Pro and went back to TW4 today, I had the Accuweather widget running all day with the check mark on Enable Current Location and I have to say my battery life was much better than running Launcher Pro. I didn't use the phone that much today, sat on the desk at home, but push email from K9 was running all day a few text messages ect and for at least 3 hours it showed 100%, right now its at 95%. Thats with WiFi Bluetooth and Sync ON.
When I'm on LP I use Beautiful Widgets, I like how that widget updates your location and weather, but maybe thats whats draining my battery faster than Accuweather.
But exactly what does Enable Current Location do in Accuweather? It doesn't detect my Current location thats for sure.
harrists said:
I'm using the AccuWeather Wideget, and I found that disabling the "Enable current location" on AccuWeather causing the high power consumption service "Wifi Sharing Service" disappear from Battery Status list, it used to take 30-40% of my GS2 battery.
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Please also disable the following functions beside AccuWeather Enable Current Location:
Voice Command & Voice Talk (preloaded on GS2)
Uncheck Settings -> Use location
bothfly said:
Well I've been running Launcher Pro and went back to TW4 today, I had the Accuweather widget running all day with the check mark on Enable Current Location and I have to say my battery life was much better than running Launcher Pro. I didn't use the phone that much today, sat on the desk at home, but push email from K9 was running all day a few text messages ect and for at least 3 hours it showed 100%, right now its at 95%. Thats with WiFi Bluetooth and Sync ON.
When I'm on LP I use Beautiful Widgets, I like how that widget updates your location and weather, but maybe thats whats draining my battery faster than Accuweather.
But exactly what does Enable Current Location do in Accuweather? It doesn't detect my Current location thats for sure.
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As my understanding, the Accuweather will keep detecting your location in certain interval to make sure it reporting the weather on your current city and display on the widget. When you have your WIFI On, and you have "Use wireless networks" checked in "Location and security", it will wake up the "Wireless Sharing" service and Accuweather or Voice Command / Voice Talk will use that "Wireless Sharing" service to keep detecting your location, that's why most of the time you see that service drain your battery for 20%-40% daily. Maybe I'm wrong but proved on my phone this method really work.
Sleepycat3 said:
I'll try this now. If it works, you would have solved a problem that has been bugging me since May!
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Thanks Sleepycat, please tell us the result! Hopefully the solution can temporary fix on every GS2 phones' battery problem before Samsung releasing the new firmware.
I think I might have figured out the Enable Current Location feature, it looks like it uses the GPS. Now I'm not sure if it updates on its own like Beautiful Widgets, which btw doesn't use the GPS since I always have it off.
harrists said:
Please also disable the following functions beside AccuWeather Enable Current Location:
Voice Command & Voice Talk (preloaded on GS2)
Uncheck Settings -> Use location
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Tried this and WiFi sharing still appears. So your fix doesn't work for me.
Does Accuweather have live weather wallpapers as in go weather.
rishap.shah said:
Does Accuweather have live weather wallpapers as in go weather.
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I don't they do. However, there are two stock live wallpapers that have live weather. I'm using the windmill one currently.
But this Live wallpaper is not in Cognition roms
I am using Blue Skies which is awesome, it just need that its dev link it to weather...
Theres an auto refresh option that 's turned off by default
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How do I use them and will they show me the wallpaper with updated current weather info
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leeboy22001 said:
Theres an auto refresh option that 's turned off by default
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How do u activate it and does it accept the weather info from accuweather and changes accordingly
does accuweather live wallpaper really work with weather update plz let me knw coz mine is not working on GS
My live weather wallpaper is also not updating/showing changed weather now. Once or twice it did, and should also show day/night but now it just stays at its current setting.
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How do u activate it and does it accept the weather info from accuweather and changes accordingly
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Click on the widget and change the setting on auto refresh to what you want.
Mine works fine.
I've been looking around it doesn't seems to be a way to do that.
Just click and hold on your home screen... Select wallpaper and it will ask you if you have it on home screen, lock screen or both
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Try that already but I don't get the choice to do it,it just sets the wallpaper for both automatically.
Mania626 said:
Try that already but I don't get the choice to do it,it just sets the wallpaper for both automatically.
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restart the phone and try again
It was the Microsoft launcher that I was using,the default launcher let's me do it without any problems,.thanks!
I've also just noted that the option to select your default launcher have disappeared from the settings menu , anybody else has this problem?
Mania626 said:
I've also just noted that the option to select your default launcher have disappeared from the settings menu , anybody else has this problem?
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Settings,apps, hit the settings gear. Profit
Mania626 said:
I've been looking around it doesn't seems to be a way to do that.
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I use Google Wallpapers app that Pixel phones have. There are a lot of different wallpapers and you get the choice of home/lock screen or both.
I have the Abstruct app and I like it a lot. I was wondering is anyone here knows of a way to rotate through the wallpapers at a set interval.
rsafford said:
I have the Abstruct app and I like it a lot. I was wondering is anyone here knows of a way to rotate through the wallpapers at a set interval.
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Have you tried KLWP?
Just download all the wallpapers you want to rotate, remember the path where they're saved, then use this to set it up...
In KLWP select "background" and in bitmap change it to formula and enter $tu(rndimg, 15, "folderpathofimageshere")$ to change it every 15 minutes.
I considered doing something like that. But Abstruct has a few hundred wallpaper that I don't really want to download them all. I thought maybe there was an app that could use a wallpaper app as a source.
rsafford said:
I considered doing something like that. But Abstruct has a few hundred wallpaper that I don't really want to download them all. I thought maybe there was an app that could use a wallpaper app as a source.
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I don't think that's possible.