Hey guys
After you guys helped me with my last problem, I decided I'd push the envelope a little and see if you could help me some more. Once again, you'll have to explain in the simplest terms possible.
I've been having trouble using the My Location feature of the HD2's weather application. It is able to download weather information for any specified city not not the 'my location.' If its relevant, I'm in the UK.
I thought that if i ditched the t-mobile supplied ROM in favour of the generic one it would help, but it hasn't (although, now I have more options to choose from).
Does anyone have any information that would help me?
thanks and best wishes
conrad
settings menu all settings system location services enable. check that first job.
thanks for the speedy reply. I checked that this was set and I found it was.
location is on. whats my next job?
hmm. OK, also in the location settings screen, ensure 'automatically decline...' is NOT ticked.
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settings - data services - weather (could also use weather tab - menu - settings)
tick download automatically (just for testing purposes) if it isn't ticked.
also, on the weather tab (im sure you will already have done this) in the menu menu make sure it doesn't still say 'activate my location' or similar.
also check that your actual location is set to 'my location', and not one of the other cities that is pre loaded.
does it work when you are in other areas? some people seem to live in places where the local mast isn't part of the cell location database.
thats all the basic checks, after that i cant help i;m afraid.
thanks for the help. it looks like its to do with the location. it seems to work in crappy little villages but not in cities. I'll try in manchester tomorrow.
ConradW said:
thanks for the help. it looks like its to do with the location. it seems to work in crappy little villages but not in cities. I'll try in manchester tomorrow.
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its true that sometimes when im in villages my location is very infrequently updated, so it could well be the cause of your problem
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I have an O2 branded X1, the weather in the two Sony Ericsson panels does not autoupdate, I have set my location in accuweather.com as required.
My SBG panel works just fine and the weather upgrades as required. Has anyone else noticed this?
I have too! It's always 17 degrees in Brighton - and it's not today, I can assure you.
Any idea why this is, anyone?
This is one of the little deciders beofre this handset goes back to o2 and I look at the Touch Pro.
Anyone else out there notice this, I know its an issue, I know of other people who have the same problem.
Does the weather auto-update in the Sony Ericsson panels?
make sure u are set to auto update and not on manual update. There is such option, just look for it, its there for sure.
I think the weather feed from Accuweather just does not work for certain places, which is strange and pretty poor since you can actually select them and get the relevant info on their site. For example, set your location as London and it will update fine, the icon will change etc, but for very few other places.
Anyone had a different xperiance?!
yes, i have this problem too..I am starting to think the weather function do not get their weather details from the aacuweather.com
This is rreally annoying because when I switch the city to another city which cannot update the weather, it will simply leave the weather details of the Old city which sometimes is extrememly wrong.
I really hope either someone here or the sony ericsson will find a solution to this problem..or may be I will just move to use other panels instead
So how often do you have your ''web feeds update time'' set for in panel options? If you have it set to ''never'' then your weather never updates. And you have to set this up in every panel as each panel is a different interface shell.
It is up to your Xperia to go to accuweather and any RSS feed internet adresses to update all the info on your panel. Not up to the site to send to you.
One more hint. EVEN if you change the city in the panel settings, you have to go to accuweather and make sure you have added this location to ''your locations'' . This is so accuweather will add this cookie to your xperia. Thus allowing your Xperia to revisit the proper area on the site for your city settings. And if you don't have cookies enabled in your internet settings set to accept cookies..... then your weather can't update.
So far I have met 4 people face to face with the Xperia and all 4 had this same complaint. T the fixes were:
1. fellow had his phone to NEVER access data without his manually allowing it....weather couldn't see the site. I don't know where this setting is but after he enabled his phone data connection it worked great.
2. never set the ''web feeds update time'' to anything but ''never'' .....phone didn't know to update. He set the time to ''hour' and now his weather and CNN headline news RSS updates every hour.
3. Weather wouldn't update all day then magically start at 6:00pm every day. The girl didn't have a stong enough signal in her work building to establish data connection.
4. set area weather in accuweather site for only the city he lived in. when he would change cities, it would only show the weather for his home town no matter what city the panel.
If this doesn't help....sorry. You're outta luck.
I have read what you have all said, thanks for the feedback.
I think that some of you are right in your assumption that the weather does not update for all cities.
I live in Southampton UK, its about 60 miles south west of London. If I enter Southampton as my location in the panel, then the weather does not update, however if I enter London it does update.
I have both cities seleceted on the accuview weather site, it does not seem to make any difference as to which I select as the default city. The only critical point seems to be the city selected in the panel. I have my web feed on autoupdate every hour etc etc. My rss webs feeds update with no issues, my cookies are selected to on.
I just think that its a pretty bad show when my city's weather will not update in these two SE panels but works just fine in any other panels that have this function. The SPG panel is by far the most useful one in my humble opinion.
I would be greatful if one of you who has this working for your city can put in my default location, ie Southampton UK, and let me know if it works for you.
Thanks in advance.
I have exactly the same issue with Newcastle I now use the Pointui panel though so its not really a big deal, but it would've been nice if it actually worked...
I too am suffering a similar issue.
Live in brighton and updates do not work, however if I change to London it updates fine.
Here is a quick question.
Are most of the people who have "weather update problems" that can't be fixed in the UK?
It would make so much sense to have the option of updating weather based on GPS location. I want to know the weather WHERE I'M AT, not where I live.
Anytime I travel, I have to go into the settings to tell the X1 where I'm at. A phone with GPS shouldn't require such maintenance. Even if there is no GPS data available, weather based on cell tower id should work just fine.
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I couldn't get where I live to work either.
I ended up doing a workaround to get the weather information I wanted by setting up an RSS web feed from accuweather for my city. Incidentally, I had to change the city name to all capitals for it to work - which might be why the built in SE panel one doesn't work!
There is actually an advantage to the RSS feed route too: click the feed and you get access to a 2 day forecast without the overhead and hassle of having to launch your internet browser and go to the accuweather site!
I need help with this issue. I have my SE panel set to web feed updates time every hour. I can't seem to find a connection setting to allow data coonnection automatically. Yet when I hit the update button on the panel, both my cities update in a matter of twenty seconds. I have Boston and Salonika chosen so they are part of SE's canned list. They are both also listed on Accu weather's site as my locations. Is there a way to get the device to request an update on it's own or do I need the spb weather panel.
From everything I have read, manila weather gets its information from AccuWeather.com (correct me if I am wrong). Now the suburb in which I live is not listed on AccuWeather.com, although the nearest city is.
However, 'myLocation' not only nails my suburb correctly, it also gives an accurate reading of the weather in my suburb (which is quite different from the nearest city-it is only about 10km away, but it is at the bottom of a hill, while I am at the top).
So my question is simply, does anyone know (or can you hazard a guess at) where it is getting this information from?
You are lucky, I can not get the weather info even I am living in a big city, which has the info at accuweather.com....
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You are lucky, I can not get the weather info even I am living in a big city, which has the info at accuweather.com....
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For MyLocation to work you need to have wifi turned on, even if your not using wifi! Most if not all cities should work on MyLocation, my small town works fine.
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From everything I have read, manila weather gets its information from AccuWeather.com (correct me if I am wrong). Now the suburb in which I live is not listed on AccuWeather.com, although the nearest city is.
However, 'myLocation' not only nails my suburb correctly, it also gives an accurate reading of the weather in my suburb (which is quite different from the nearest city-it is only about 10km away, but it is at the bottom of a hill, while I am at the top).
So my question is simply, does anyone know (or can you hazard a guess at) where it is getting this information from?
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To hazard a guess I would say it uses your GPS location and AccuWeather.com, then using forcasts maps to work out what weather is like at your current location relative to the maps
I do everything but it is not responding (My Location)...
I opened WiFi, DataConnection, 3G..
I find my location from GoogleMaps..
But it is not showing weather update for MyLocation.
I can find my city from weather tab, & it updates the info for my city, BUT FOR MY LOCATION IT IS NOT!!!!
It makes me crazy!!!
I've had strange problems with my location, first happend a while back but started ok showin my uk location but i upgraded to a newer rom version and since then its been showing me livin in some place in finland. I have decided to test xannytechrom and shows my location ok again but i think it was his very first rom he released that started the problem regardless on what rom i went to but i think it might have been somting to do with the manilla but who knows. Im happy its working again
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To hazard a guess I would say it uses your GPS location and AccuWeather.com, then using forcasts maps to work out what weather is like at your current location relative to the maps
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From mypersonal experience, MyLocation does not utilize GPS. I check it indoors where I have no GPS signal and it nails my location. All it utilizes is the Internet connection but beat me if I know how it does it.
you are right it uses the internet connection but only Thru WIFI which sucks!
on other devices it works fine without needing wifi on.
It's using cell positioning just like googlemaps but on the blackstone I think there's something wrong with one of the drivers that does hand over from one connection type to the other..
I did replace oemext with the topaz version, as I suspected this is one of the dlls, it stopped it updating at all! so it's a good chance it's that one..
I haven't tried hex comparing them if decompiling to see what the differences are. .
As to where it gets it's data from I guess it picks up from nearest location in it's database although I'm not certain, I live about 10km outside the nearest city and get totally different weather when I have both my location on at home and the city set.
It's far from perfect; I've just finished video=reviewing the touch2 (HTC_mega) and at work (in the city) while setting my location for the first time, it totally ignored where I was and instead gave me weather from another village about 15km away that I haven't even taken the phone anywhere near !
Hi people,
So, ive had this phone for a week or so now - and hell is there a lot to play around with!
Ive installed some very basic apps to it, and have installed co0kie
For some reason however, my clcok decided to put itself in seattle.
Ive managed to change the location settings, but when it comes to the actual time and date the option for changing the city is unavailable.
Any ideas?
Tar muchly
Not sure what you mean. You should be able to just touch the clock, select "my location" and set the correct time. The phone should then detect your location and you'll be sorted.
Hope that helps.
1. When I try to open facebook.com in my Opera web browser, they send me to something that is not the original, but som quasifacebookapplicationwannabe. I want the same page as on my pc.
2. I use the weather application and update it several times a day, but I miss one option that I cannot seem to find (if it exists). That is to save the locations I drive through now on my 5 week vacation. When I update, it figures out my new location and changes to this, but I want to keep more of them. Many of the places I visit don't appear in the Add Location function.
Hope you know what I mean
Thanks!
Hmm... try using m.facebook.com or 0.facebook.com (if you are a Vodafone client).
As for your second issue... I don't really understand what it is. You want your device to remember the places where you've been? If not, then please explain.
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1. When I try to open facebook.com in my Opera web browser, they send me to something that is not the original, but som quasifacebookapplicationwannabe. I want the same page as on my pc.
2. I use the weather application and update it several times a day, but I miss one option that I cannot seem to find (if it exists). That is to save the locations I drive through now on my 5 week vacation. When I update, it figures out my new location and changes to this, but I want to keep more of them. Many of the places I visit don't appear in the Add Location function.
Hope you know what I mean
Thanks!
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Open your webpage on the Google homepage, and change it from 'Mobile' to 'Classic', then google Facebook, and all should be well.
And if the place isn't in the Add Location function you can't add it to the Sense weather list. You'll need a 3rd party app or to use the internet to check the weather which isn't quite the same as the Sense Weather interface. You'll just have to keep using My Location I'm afraid.
Search these threads, there is an app here somewhere that will allow you to enter arbitrary weather locations based on (I think I remember) a 4 digit code you need to look up for each spot. Sorry, I looked at it but didn't keep it.
dbh369 said:
Search these threads, there is an app here somewhere that will allow you to enter arbitrary weather locations based on (I think I remember) a 4 digit code you need to look up for each spot. Sorry, I looked at it but didn't keep it.
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Ah yes you're right, I have seen that before but I couldn't make head nor tail of it. If you go the Accuweather website you can get the codes for individual areas, but I didn't have a clue where to input them.
think this is what you are thinking of. I couldnt get it to find my location as it finds it using 'my location', only the nearest big city, but i didnt try for very long.
You could always make use of footprints to take a snap with location data attached, then i bet theres a way to load the whole lot onto a google earth kmz or something.
samsamuel said:
You could always make use of footprints to take a snap with location data attached, then i bet theres a way to load the whole lot onto a google earth kmz or something.
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I haven't even the slightest idea how to go about doing that, I think a spot of Googling is in order tomorrow.
I've given the little app a go but it seems to only work for major towns or citys. I can't seem to set my local village or town using the code, it just gives the My Location type 'Can't Connect'.
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I haven't even the slightest idea how to go about doing that, I think a spot of Googling is in order tomorrow.
I've given the little app a go but it seems to only work for major towns or citys. I can't seem to set my local village or town using the code, it just gives the My Location type 'Can't Connect'.
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cant offer any advice, never used footprints, but it seems like a quick and simple option to gather location
Or you could simply use google maps and save a marker. That might be easier to extract the data from, but yoiu dont get a nice pic into teh bargain, hehe
M.WUND.COM
quick and easy weather site. Even has animated radar.
I am unable to switch off the setting to stop downloading data automatically although I have unticked the box.
I continues to update the weather every hour complete with graphics.
I would like to switch it off and only download when I need it
Any suggestions?
Hi,
I have a french version, but I try to translate, the naming will probaly not exact:
1) go to parameter (settings) page.
2) tap on "DATA service" (service de données in French)
3) Here, you will find what you want, "weather" and then untick "auto download"
I hope it helps
Thanks I have done that but it hasn't stopped the automatic data download
Are you sure that is the Weather the cause of update ?
Ther are a lot of other aplications e-mail, Stocks, GPS update, application update,....
By me all this things seems to work well. Elsewhere, there is an application that stops all the phone communication : nodata. I do not use it but I read this work very well on mini.
NoData
Hi,
See if the program "NoData" doesn't help you. It allows you to black access to the internet via your phone system. Sure worked for me.
Luck
The Weather tab is a big resource hog. I also suspect some bugs in it that can cause your phone to freeze. (Not verified yet. But one of my prime suspects.)
I would suggest to disable the whole weather thing altogether.
Which resourses does the weather program hog? I magine that it's a load on the battery, and the graphic use up a lot of memory. Are there any others? I would never use my mobile provider to update anything in my phone. I do it when I sync or find a hotspot.
How would you disable it?
I am only curious, so when you have a moment, I'd be interested in your response.
Thanks
Primary the ram memory. I notice it ate up several megabytes of ram. I forgot to jot down exactly how many. It certainly is not as small as 1Mb or 2Mb. Somewhere closer to 10Mb. It's huge.
Disable it from "Personalize Home Screen Tabs".
Basically, take it off the tabs. And don't update it. After a few days, it will just die off.
Thanks. Memory is not an issue for me now, but I"ll keep it in mind.