...since a few days, the live tiles of my weather apps (Weather Flow, Accuweather and Weather View) and calendar apps (Appointile, Week View)
don't update any more. I am not aware that I did some changes on the settings. Any suggestions?
Are you running your device with Battery Safer enabled? Battery safer disbales Push as well as Background Processes and those are what is responsible for updating the tiles.
StevieBallz said:
Are you running your device with Battery Safer enabled? Battery safer disbales Push as well as Background Processes and those are what is responsible for updating the tiles.
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No, Battery Saver is off and I m getting Push messages..
I am also having this problem. I double checked that the background process is enabled for amazing weather, it is. Also, other tiles are updating, everything except for the me tile.
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Hi Folks
Just wondered if anyone has any suggestions for full size widgets for the hero?
Basically my home screen has clock,weather widget and a couple of other freqently used widgets.Swipe to the left and I have a full page of 16 other widgets.Swipe to the left again and i have a full size music player.Last swipe to the left and i have the full size bookmarks widget. If I swipe right from my homescreen then I have my camera album and thats it! The next two pages are empty
Now i for some reason dont like it I dont like to see the unused space but i'm struggling to find anything to put in them. I dont use twitter and not bothered about the footprints widget.
I have had a search on the net for something but as of yet been unsuccsesfull.
Anybody have any suggestions? Dont matter if its a novelty kind of widget or whatever....I'll give it a look!
Thanks in advance
Gaz
I too currently have an empty page
Mainly due to the fact bookmarks widget is not working on latest build of VillainRom.
Can't think of anything to place on that page at all.
The more widgets then generally the slower the UI and faster the battery drains. If you don't desperately need something there I would leave it blank.
cyberkid2002 said:
The more widgets then generally the slower the UI and faster the battery drains. If you don't desperately need something there I would leave it blank.
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Is this just because there is more on the screen graphically or do the widgets themselves slow it down? I was under the impression that the widgets are only shortcuts to the programs and so obviously use no memory untill launched!?
Gaz
Gazaman said:
Is this just because there is more on the screen graphically or do the widgets themselves slow it down? I was under the impression that the widgets are only shortcuts to the programs and so obviously use no memory untill launched!?
Gaz
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since widgets are "active" shortcuts they are executed the moment you go to the screen they are on. how would it display weather or news when it is a "dead" shortcut?
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since widgets are "active" shortcuts they are executed the moment you go to the screen they are on. how would it display weather or news when it is a "dead" shortcut?
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The weather widget that i use is the one on the clock so not an independant widget. I just assumed that this one was opened when i first chose this clock and just stays open.
Please go easy on me here as im still getting to grips with the whole 'mechanics' of the phone.
So all widgets that i have on my phone scene are active? Most (if not all) are just executable programs like google maps,google sky maps,shazam,flixter,meebo etc and as far as i'm aware dont require to be constantly updated via internet connection(unless opened).
Why would these be active?
If they are constantly active then why would people use task killers? It seems pointless if they are always active anyway!
Like i said,I'm sorry if this is all a bit basic but would be nice to now how it all works as i have actually noticed my phone seems quite slow lately and for some reason notifications on the top notification bar aren't disspearing when i have read my messages etc.
Maybe i have too many active widgets?!?
Thanks
Gaz
you have to make a difference between a widget and a shortcut to an app. the clock is a clock widget with integrated weather support. it is triggered if you go to the screen it is on and by time change (to display the correct time for example). as it has the weather feature it can also activate the background weather service.
a shortcut is the same thing as those on your windows desktop. it is nothing else than a link to the app, and doesn't do anything until you click on it.
check the way you add a shortcut and a widget, after pressing the + sign you have to choose which one you want to add.
It is a gray area as to what a widget is and not all widgets are active. The weather one is active. So is the one I use to give me London Tube status - as others have said they update as soon as you switch to the window (in fact I thought they did it in the background all the time, but i may well be wrong on that).
On the other hand the widget that switches BT or wifi or GPS on or off are not active unless you touch them then they do what is required (switch it on or off) and then become inactive. In reality they are a little mini-programme in their own right, but they are still called widgets.
Shortcuts are not the same as widgets - all they do is open a programme when touched - so Google maps etc are not widgets they are shortcuts.
I have filled all of my screens - any space left after the widgets is now filled with shortcuts to programmes I use most often. Doesn't appear to slow down the phone at all.
Besides saving battery life, what effects would I notice. I know FB pushes would go away, I'm fine with that, what about emails? Or my weather clock?
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Besides saving battery life, what effects would I notice. I know FB pushes would go away, I'm fine with that, what about emails? Or my weather clock?
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Automated email updates would go away. Weather clock would stop working. Any widget or background application that depends on data in any way would stop automatically updating.
You would need to manually update all of that stuff, or it would automatically update (all at once) when you turn the screen of your phone on, depending on how the application is written.
Im just planning on using the built in options. I have juice defender but dont use it as i see no improvement with it.
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Automated email updates would go away. Weather clock would stop working. Any widget or background application that depends on data in any way would stop automatically updating.
You would need to manually update all of that stuff, or it would automatically update (all at once) when you turn the screen of your phone on, depending on how the application is written.
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Text messages still come through though.
I have a battery drain and I think it might be causes by ghe fact that I dont have sleepmode
I have cognition s2 1.51 and rage mode t40
How do check what prevents me from entering sleep mode?
Theres an app called betterbatterystats with it you can check your wakeupclocks to see what app its keeping your phone awake i hope you get me.
Ya I get you but I dont under stand how to use this app at all and I dont know what wakelocks are. I just dont understand how this can hel pme understand what causes my battery deain
Look at your apps and widgets.
Does anything need constant updating?
A weather widget with x minutes before a new update?
Maybe some facebook/twitter thing?
Gmail automatic sync also causes wakes.
Settings -> Accounts and Sync
Look at this and check what accounts you have and which of them have auto-sync enabled.
Ill give you a shorr lost of what I think:
Wigdet locker (i have a clock widget)
Task panel widget
Facebook
Email
Juice defender
Alarm clock??
Viber
And I dont know but my dolphin browser is checked as a wakelock and it shows high usage on
BetterBatteryStats I think (i dont know what the red bars and blue bars mean)
As just posted here it may help .
in Settings->Privacy disable "Backup my data"
* restart the phone - yes, you have to, otherwise the process will continue running
jje
I recently upgraded to Oreo and have discovered a few annoying features (why did they get rid of the notification count?), pertinent to this discussion is the ability for a widget to periodically update its content.
For example, I have a couple of weather apps which allow a widget to be placed on the screen which will conveniently display current weather conditions. The apps themselves allow the user to determine the frequency of updates ranging between 15 minutes and a few hours. However, since this Oreo upgrade none of my widgets are updating the data within the widget itself. I can open the widget and it will update at that point, but they will not do so automatically as they had done previously.
Looking over the change log, I'm wondering if this has something to do with limiting background services for battery life extension?
I've gone into the settings and turned off power saving mode, turned off app power monitor, even enabled high performance mode. None of this seems to alter the widgets updating.
Any ideas?
Mine doesn't. I have to manually update it even though I have the weather in home screen. This is stupid. It's there a way to update like hourly?
kennyk09 said:
Mine doesn't. I have to manually update it even though I have the washer in home screen. This is stupid. It's there a way to update like hourly?
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How?
How?
Think mine does as well.
There are times I'm not paying attention to the weather and the temperature # will change on the widget without me opening the app and manually refreshing.
Have seen it happen on at least 2 occasions that I can recall. Don't really use the weather app that much in the first place
My weather widget doesn't update. I've heard it might be a bizarre issue where it doesn't update in the EU region. Possibly a GDPR confirmation missed at one point. I didn't want to try this method for my reasons, but you could try setting your phone region to India, for instance, creating the widget and letting it detect your location. If that succeeds, you can revert to your region and the thing should then work, in theory. Let me know if you succeed.
I not working ,you can set up automatic update at night. Between 23 and 7!! Who need update when sleep.
I use Google widget At a glance and its working without any problem. Everyone have it in widget - Google
Only option I have is overnight crap. The weather is so unstable in this part of the world. I need to be able to update at least hourly, automatically of course.
Even if it does update during the night, at 6pm your widget will still be showing weather from 7am
I tried "simple weather & clock" by difer, which almost made it. I realized if you use 3rd party weather app, the time on notification bar stays on, in home screen. Which is annoying because I only want 1 big time shown on weather app that also allow me to access timer and alarm. Who needs 2 of same time shown on home screen? I rather have defect stock weather app, looks neater at least..
I also have the clock always in the status bar. Except for when a notification arrives, or right after unlocking it. It's connected to the default launcher and I'm using the Poco Launcher. I need my app drawer
If you don't want the clock in the status bar, you could use the MIUI clock only widget, and then just a separate widget for the forecast.