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
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Since there appears to be such conflicting reports about lag or lack there of; I think it would benefit us all if we start to list who is having lag and who isn't whilst including where you bought the phone etc....
so to those that are having lag, give us these details:
1.) where and when did you get the phone, including the color
2.) branded or unbranded
3.) look under the battery or where ever for serial numbers or manufacturing dates
4.) report what firmware (if possible) and what the "about android" says in the OS
5.) what you are perceiving to be slow and when it occurs
If you would like some other examples of "slowness" check out the comments here: http://www.pda-247.com/wordpress/2009/08/htc-hero-review-part-two/
Note that after some discussion, all parties involved are equally confused and can't understand the opposing experiences of the other. I would also like to see reports from those that haven't experienced any lag or nothing like what some of the laggers are experiencing. I think we are experiencing some manufacturing differences here that have yet to be documented or made certain. I suspect this is all due to sense UI but who knows for certain. Is it possible to have the G1 Hero rom installed on a stock hero? Perhaps the Hero rom that is mentioned the in the hero dev forum would help? In any event, we should really start compiling specifics in a single thread as nobody likes buyers remorse
Not geographical. Its about the way you use your phone.
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Not geographical. Its about the way you use your phone.
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Fine. But it shouldn't be. If the phone is "just suppose to work" then there apparently still needs to be some optimization to account for the apparent excesses of others. I'm SURE it's JUST about what these people are doing...come on man, there has to be something else going on even if it is simply due to sense UI needing some optimization tweaks. You can't just toss away the experiences of many different folks (reviewers included) with the implication that the phone is not at all at fault for the negative reports.
I agree, I think there are variables we aren't considering. I think it comes down to the use of widgets and the amount of screens you have running, though I'm not totally sure.
I personally have not experienced any lag. I have a white sim free Hero, I use 3 screens, one with wifi, bluetooth, mobile data and gps widgets, a weather widget and a few icons. Another page has all icons, and the third has the bookmarks widget. I used to have the contacts widget on the second page and noticed no lag when using that either.
Once I tried to start up as many apps as I could to see if I experienced the lagginess people were talking about.... with no result. Still very slick.
What I don't have is a clock widget. I personally think it's useless when you have the time in the taskbar. I don't use a twitter widget either, but Peep seems to start itself sometimes.
That leads me to something else, I have apps which start themselves up spontaneously. Peep, Glympse, calendar for example.... they all show up in the task list (Taskiller) when I haven't used them. I've switched off any auto updates/ stay logged out etc. So that's a bit weird. That's part of the reason I'll use Taskiller maybe 4 or 5 times a day to kill everything running.
All in all I'm very happy and impressed with the useability of this device.
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I agree, I think there are variables we aren't considering. I think it comes down to the use of widgets and the amount of screens you have running, though I'm not totally sure.
I personally have not experienced any lag. I have a white sim free Hero, I use 3 screens, one with wifi, bluetooth, mobile data and gps widgets, a weather widget and a few icons. Another page has all icons, and the third has the bookmarks widget. I used to have the contacts widget on the second page and noticed no lag when using that either.
Once I tried to start up as many apps as I could to see if I experienced the lagginess people were talking about.... with no result. Still very slick.
What I don't have is a clock widget. I personally think it's useless when you have the time in the taskbar. I don't use a twitter widget either, but Peep seems to start itself sometimes.
That leads me to something else, I have apps which start themselves up spontaneously. Peep, Glympse, calendar for example.... they all show up in the task list (Taskiller) when I haven't used them. I've switched off any auto updates/ stay logged out etc. So that's a bit weird. That's part of the reason I'll use Taskiller maybe 4 or 5 times a day to kill everything running.
All in all I'm very happy and impressed with the useability of this device.
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Makes no damn sense to me and it's posts like this that make me think it isn't the software afterall....geez. I guess I'll just have to order one some time soon and cross my fingers that it really isn't hardware related.
I've had my 16GB DVP since late Dec 2010. I have generally been very pleased with it so far. I haven't had any of the crashing or freezing problems that so many other people seem to be having with their DVP. Like everyone else, I have been dealing with the usual WP7 bugs and glitches, but nothing I would call phone or DVP specific.
The only major annoyance I have had is with the weather apps and their live tiles. I have tried them all numerous times each and the Live Tiles just will not stay updated. They will work OK for a day or two, but then lock up and fail to update for days at a time. Eventually, I just uninstall the app and move onto another one.
Today was the final straw. I bought the new Weather Live app for $0.99 because of its' supposed excellent Live Tile features. I installed it at 11 am ET. It is now almost 2 pm ET and the Live Tile has not done a thing. Of course, I have enabled Live Tile in the settings, set it to update Hourly and turned on the GPS Location. Launching the app gives me the current weather conditions just fine, but the Live Tile remains unchanged.
This leads me to believe my Live Tiles are just hosed and I should probably do a Hard Reset to see if that helps. I have no problem doing that. I really don't have anything personal stored on the phone. I've sync'd with the Zune software on my PC, and all of my emails and contacts are backed up on the cloud.
The only thing I am concerned about losing are my call history and any loose phone numbers that aren't associated to any of my backed up contacts. I'm not sure if any of these are saved to the SIM like the old feature phones used to do.
So my question is, has anyone ever done a Hard Reset and lost anything they thought should have been backed up? Is there anything I should make sure to back up manually? Any other tips or advice? TIA.
Advice? Yes, don't waste your time!
I just did a hard reset yesterday. The only thing I reinstalled was the weather channel app and another app that uses toast notifications. Those are the only 2 live tiles that I have running on my device for 24 hours now and the weather tile has only updated once.
I've now given up on live tiles and am waiting for mango for the fix. Don't bother hard resetting and losing all your information.
I have been loving Windows 8 so far. I am running it solely on my Alienware M17X R2 with dual m4780 HDs. I had no problems with the drivers, except installing CCC in windows 7 compatibility. I originally had it dual boot, keeping my windows 7. After using it so much, I decided it was fit for my main OS.
One thing I have noticed is my live tiles, despite having data behind them, don't have the lovely live tile aspects as WP7 does. No contact faces flipping over the tile, no album artwork, pictures...anyone else have this problem?
And, in general, how do you all like Windows 8?
I don't think it's a problem, more like that is the state of it until it gets official.
That's what I thought. I just thought I'd check, see if anyone else was having more success with them. I have seen some demo videos online where the tiles seem perkier.
The only thing I've noticed is that the people app doesn't refresh at the rate I would like for it too. I do like the CP though and it's to be expected that not everything would be perfect. I just can't wait to get this thing themed and customized, I'd really like to set my metro tiles up with some custom pictures like I've seen for Launcher7 layouts.
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my live tiles are moving up and down instead of flipping around as we know from wp7. for example a contact tile (just one, every other seems to be frozen), wordpress, mail…
one thing i miss from Windows phone are the notification sounds. when an app is installed, there is the typical wp7 sound, but not when receiving mails...
yea, the sounds would be nice.
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my live tiles are moving up and down instead of flipping around as we know from wp7. for example a contact tile (just one, every other seems to be frozen), wordpress, mail…
one thing i miss from Windows phone are the notification sounds. when an app is installed, there is the typical wp7 sound, but not when receiving mails...
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You get the same sounds when notifications are received, IE when you get a new message. Issue is E-Mail doesn't send out any notifications, it just updates in the background... have submitted Feedback stating that it should send notifications but they're probably already working on this tbh.
I have the same problem,but i uninstall my antivurus AVG,and now work perfect all live titles
Hello fellow Nexus Foursians,
I've recently discovered UCCWidgets and I've been happily constructing various minimalist widgets. However, UCCW doesn't ever find my location for weather related widget functions. In fact, GPS in general fails to work on my N4 unless I fire up GPS Test (once per boot cycle). Once GPS Test has achieved a lock (usually quickly, sometimes a couple of minutes) the other GPS related apps work, except UCCW. Are you guys seeing this behavior? UCCW suggests achieving a location lock in Google Maps and then using Automatic Location but that doesn't work for me, either. Heck, even Manual Location fails to update weather conditions most of the time even in different locales in a suburban area.
Also, UCCW's Hotspot feature for some reason does not open weather apps. I've tried Accuweather and The Weather Channel but neither will open as an App from Hotspot. Every other app (not weather related) that I've tested will open but not the weather apps, which sucks because mostly I want to create a decent minimalist weather widget, since Beautiful Widgets' developers intentionally broke theirs.
Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi. "LOCATION NOT AVAILABLE" looks pretty in Roboto Bold Caps font but it isn't impressing the ladies.
" In fact, GPS in general fails to work on my N4 unless I fire up GPS Test (once per boot cycle). Once GPS Test has achieved a lock (usually quickly, sometimes a couple of minutes) the other GPS related apps work"
I'm recognizing this. I tried allowing location services and all, but it made no difference. I'm not really worried as it's obviously a software-related problem, that can ben fixed with a bit of a work-a-round.
Same problem with me. Been flashing different ROMs but haven't found a solution yet. Just have to keep using GPS test to get a lock first.
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A weird thing has been happening to my S5 since I got it, both before and after rooting. For some reason, not all widgets want to stick to my homescreen in the stock Samsung launcher. When I first got the phone, they all worked, as far as I could tell (I didn't investigate fully at the time, since I had no reason to suspect that they wouldn't work). After a little while, though, I found that I couldn't make Beautiful Widgets widgets stick. I long-pressed the homescreen, chose BW, selected a widget style/size, and customized it in the BW menu, just like it's supposed to work. But no widget appeared on the homescreen. What was weirder was that in the BW app itself, it listed my widget as working, even though it obviously wasn't. Uninstalling/reinstalling the app did nothing but clear the "existing" widget I had created from the list within the app interface.
At first, I thought this problem was limited to BW, so I just got rid of it and decided to jump to another app, but then I found that HD widgets didn't work, and another similar clock/weather-style widget group wouldn't work. Thinking maybe I had created some sort of data corruption, I did a factory reset, which worked for a while, but eventually the widgets stopped working again. After rooting, and finding that the problem still existed, I factory reset again, and started putting my apps back on one at a time, testing to see if it was a conflicting app causing the problem. No luck. The widgets worked until some random time when they simply no longer would.
I finally resolved to go without this kind of widget, since it wasn't a necessity, just a convenience. The problem is that I've now noticed that other kinds of widgets aren't working, either, including some that I'd really like to have work, like the Tasker timer widget.
Has anyone else noticed this problem occurring on their Verizon S5s? I'm going to look into which widgets actually still work (because some do), and which don't, and compile a spreadsheet, see if I can come up with a reason. I doubt I'll be successful, but it might be useful for other people who actually know how to fix things.
PS. Another weird thing is that the widgets stick to Nova Launcher homescreens just fine. Now, that would be okay, except that I want to do some theming now that we can flash some ROMs, and I thought that theming only applies to the stock launcher. Plus, I'm guessing that this isn't normal behavior and I do want to find out why it's happening, not just use a workaround.
After some more digging, I've found that, with only a few exceptions, the widgets that require some sort of customization before placement on the homescreen are the ones that don't work. All widgets that are simply "click-and-drop" work fine. But, if I click a widget and it opens up a configuration page, 9 times out 10 no widget will appear on the homescreen after the configuration.
It doesn't seem to matter what size the widget is, whether the widget's app is stock or third-party, or if it is solo on the widget page or part of a group of widgets from the same app.
Plus, there are some exceptions to this, such as Google Play widgets, Mint, and Email Me Pro. Others work sometimes, depending on what configuration you apply to the widget. For example, the stock Picture Frame widget works when you shuffle the pictures, and doesn't when you choose where to draw pictures from.
Very strange. I'm thinking my only course of action might be to go nuclear and flash a completely different stock image onto my phone through Odin. I downloaded one from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53437805&postcount=1289. If I'm correct, this tar image should be exactly the same as the one that was on my phone from the factory, presumably minus whatever problem mine currently has. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
Okay, so flashed the tar image through Odin, reloaded some stuff without rooting (yet), and everything seems to be going fine so far. I'm pretty sure that by this point in my previous experiment, the widgets had stopped working. I think it must have been some sort of corrupted file deep inside my system that isn't there now.