Hello, I have a rooted stock rom Droid X 2.2 which has no issues and I'm very pleased with. I don't see anything in the 2.2.1 update that makes me want to upgrade. But I am curious about one feature mentioned in the Verizon announcement under enhancements : What is the Data Widget on home panel? What is it used for? Thanks
It's just a Verizon widget to show your total data usage for the month.
mistergreentree said:
It's just a Verizon widget to show your total data usage for the month.
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Thanks mistergreentree.
I was curious if it was a widget with direct control to Data Manager/Data Delivery/Background Data. Not a big deal.
There's no app (rooted or unrooted) that can toggle Background Data directly. Only interface is stock Settings or my anycut widget which on my phone is a process with a slight delay.
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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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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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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.
Hello,
have a strange issue with Pure Grid widget. When added, it works just fine but just for several hours. After that widget stops updating and no longer displays newly added events.
Oh and I have enough free ram, I dont use any sort of task killer, am no rooted (yet) and I ran Galaxy S2 at stock 2.3.3 Ginger.
Any ideas whats wrong?
Thank you
probably an issue with pure grid and touchwiz... wait for an update or email the dev
Has anyone had a problem where widgets will not update (for example, weather widgets don't refresh and switch widgets don't show a change in state)? I had thought I traced my issue to Be weather, and switched to Beautiful Widgets and after working fine for a day or two it has started to cease updating every few hours and require me to restart the launcher. I noticed this on Apex and Go Launcher.
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Rlin5741 said:
Has anyone had a problem where widgets will not update (for example, weather widgets don't refresh and switch widgets don't show a change in state)? I had thought I traced my issue to Be weather, and switched to Beautiful Widgets and after working fine for a day or two it has started to cease updating every few hours and require me to restart the launcher. I noticed this on Apex and Go Launcher.
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Some Samsung specific widgets will not update if you are using a different launcher
fillyo said:
Some Samsung specific widgets will not update if you are using a different launcher
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The widgets I am referring to are third party - BeWeather and Beautiful Widgets appear to potentially "cause" an issue, but once the issue occurs, all widgets are impacted.
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Lodaserves said:
Turn on your wifi maybe you dont have internet access.
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My internet access works fine (I still get emails) - and once I restart the launcher it automatically updates. Plus I have played with the network optimizer function (new feature that will go on and off WiFi depending on the ability to get on the internet) on and off and the same thing happens.
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Lodaserves said:
Try to re update again.
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The re-update switch in the widgets doesn't work. Updating launchers and widgets to latest versions does not work. All widgets just become unresponsive including switch widgets (I use switchpro). They will perform the function (I.e. on a weather widget the update happens in the background and the switch will perform whatever function its tied to) but it will not display (I.e. the switch widget will not show the change in state and weather widgets will not show the updated weather).
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Lodaserves said:
Have you asked some of your friend if they have the same problem like yours.
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Lol - I hang out with all apple guys. I do know one person with an S5, uses Go Launcher and has this issue with the Accuweather widget and the stock weather widget (which I believe was also powered by accuweather on the back end). I noticed that, regardless of the widget I was using, I still show BeWeather as an active process, so I went ahead and uninstalled it. I still have the issue however.
PS - I have no issues with my Nexus 7 (2012) which runs Kitkat as well.
Interestingly enough, the problem seems to have fixed itself. There were updates to Apex in the meantime, perhaps its that.
My friend with Go Launcher is also seeing the same impact - the issue is gone.
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Calendar widget quit updating
Just today, my calendar widget stopped updating. Just says "No upcoming calendar events." I've tried the stock and Agenda Widgets - nothing. I'm running Google Now launcher, but they don't work in Touchwiz Launcher either. I noticed yesterday that the number of items on the widget began to dwindle.
Any fix for this?
Well, trust me I did everything for my Xperia L when I encountered this problem.
What I did for my device
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59371718&postcount=2439
Look two three posts before it for more information!
What fixed it was taking battery out for few minutes and putting it back again!
Hey guys, if you stop the cashed process for touchwiz home, the widgets immediately start updating. I'm using a verizon Samsung galaxy s5 4.4.4 kitkat. Just thought I'd throw that in...
Hello,
Refer to the attachment screenshot, please.
I found that the widget of S Health which is a stock app in my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 did not automatically refresh sometimes even if I changed between home screens. I mean that the steps data didn't refresh and kept as the old data.
In addition, I wonder how to refresh the widget data manually.
Thanks in advance.
James_Watson said:
Hello,
Refer to the attachment screenshot, please.
I found that the widget of S Health which is a stock app in my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 did not automatically refresh sometimes even if I changed between home screens. I mean that the steps data didn't refresh and kept as the old data.
In addition, I wonder how to refresh the widget data manually.
Thanks in advance.
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in stock launcher?
I read somewhere that System app widgets have issues with 3rd party launchers.
nijom said:
in stock launcher?
I read somewhere that System app widgets have issues with 3rd party launchers.
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Yes, I am sure that it is in stock launcher.
Any ideas? :crying:
Hello all! I was wondering if any native Hotspot widget exists? Or maybe a quick setting widget? I'm on stock sprint and I was wondering if anyone has an apk or bundled apk with stock widgets, if it even exists
poszy said:
Hello all! I was wondering if any native Hotspot widget exists? Or maybe a quick setting widget? I'm on stock sprint and I was wondering if anyone has an apk or bundled apk with stock widgets, if it even exists
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I know some other variants have stock widget, the sprint one has absolutely none?
myiphonebroke said:
I know some other variants have stock widget, the sprint one has absolutely none?
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Well I don't know of that is absolutely true but from what I'm seeing from my phone, I don't have any
poszy said:
Hello all! I was wondering if any native Hotspot widget exists? Or maybe a quick setting widget? I'm on stock sprint and I was wondering if anyone has an apk or bundled apk with stock widgets, if it even exists
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Take a look at More Shortcuts app in the Play Store. Surprisingly and without root it can create a shortcut which will toggle WiFi hotspot. At least, on my T-mobile V20 it does
yeah, my T-Mobile LG V20 has a Hotspot widget
It does? My LG V20 doesn't. Can't find it anywhere.
I think I figured it out.
Long press on an open spot, select widgets, swipe through until you find a 1x1 Settings gear widget.
Select that, then scroll through the options for which setting you want, wifi Hotspot should be near the top of the list.