Related
Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
wyase9 said:
Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This happened to me as well.. It wouldn't say London but it still wouldn't show the weather icon next to the clock above Blinkfeed. What worked for me was, I had to turn on mobile data, turn on GPS and then go back into weather and it should get your current location.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
Thanks for the reply. I tried that and still nothing... This is so annoying man. It may be some other hidden setting in my phone, I don't know... All I know is that the thing should allow you to choose your weather location instead of muck around with gps and all that!
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
wyase9 said:
Thanks for the reply. I tried that and still nothing... This is so annoying man. It may be some other hidden setting in my phone, I don't know... All I know is that the thing should allow you to choose your weather location instead of muck around with gps and all that!
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmm i dunno... It worked for me! Maybe try it again, but this time do it and reboot the phone
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
wyase9 said:
Hi all,
Loving the phone and for all who are still waiting for it due to shortages, keep at it, you won't regret it....
loving the phone and happy to use Blinkfeed for news stories (fb and twitter not so good on it)... But I can't figure out for the life of me figure out how to get it to pull data for my home location. I have set up London as my home and refuse to leave location services on all the time (battery drain and all that).... So why is it so hard to get Blinkfeed to tell me the weather in my home location? Should be a no brained but it's bugging me no end and I refuse to give in any activate gps all day long when I seldom use it... Please help
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi.
I work in London and live in Bromley and I've seen no problems with the widget reflecting my 'current' location.
The only thing I remember doing is removing all other hard coded locations in the widget except my current location. I've also got all location services switched on (Not GPS) because I like the features available with this.
Only had the phone two days so hard to assess the potential drain on battery with location services, but based on an overnight charge and having used the phone on the train to browse, read email etc I'm currently at %79 charge after 7.5 hours..... certainly better than my S2.
owens2000 said:
Hi.
I work in London and live in Bromley and I've seen no problems with the widget reflecting my 'current' location.
The only thing I remember doing is removing all other hard coded locations in the widget except my current location. I've also got all location services switched on (Not GPS) because I like the features available with this.
Only had the phone two days so hard to assess the potential drain on battery with location services, but based on an overnight charge and having used the phone on the train to browse, read email etc I'm currently at %79 charge after 7.5 hours..... certainly better than my S2.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow everyday I'm finding people near me. Really is a small world! I live in new addington and used to go school in bromley :/ a lot of my friends actually still leave in bromley at the moment (sorry for ot)
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
Have you tried settings/locations and checked boxes for all the services?
Yep, that is the first thing I tried.....
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
wyase9 said:
Yep, that is the first thing I tried.....
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
tbh the effect of leaving GPS on all day is probably negligible - ive never turned it off on any phone ive had that had the feature :s
The crazy thing is that I can separately grab the clock and weather widget which is identical to the Blinkfeed header and it asks my location and I complete it and done... That works fine!... I just can't tell the same thing to the Blinkfeed widget! Crazy!
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Anyone else had any problems with the weather section at the top if Blinkfeed? I am still suffering with this issue.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
wyase9 said:
Anyone else had any problems with the weather section at the top if Blinkfeed? I am still suffering with this issue.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup got the same issue. Just says my location, not the city I'm in. Tried with all location service on and GPS, wifi etc. When I refresh it says "unable to connect to location service". Could be software issue?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
Glad u am not alone on this problem. Have tried loads of things, but still no weather for my city and it says data not available....
Maybe there are others out rather, but I think there must be a setting otherwise everyone would have suffered this issue.
Any new help or suggestions out there would be appreciated.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
Have you guys tried enabling/disabling mock locations in the development section on the settings?
Also if my guess is right based on "unable to connect to location service" it could be that your internet provider is block the port used by the weather widget. Have you guys tried using WIFI instead?
You have to have location services switched on. You dont need GPS switched on but you do need location services switched on.
Have you checked the sync settings for HTC Weather? I have mine set to auto update every few hours, you might need that on too.
I had this issue and everything was switched on. All you need to do to fix the issue is go into the clock app and select you location. Worked for me. Took 30 Seconds to update.
Riyal said:
Have you guys tried enabling/disabling mock locations in the development section on the settings?
Also if my guess is right based on "unable to connect to location service" it could be that your internet provider is block the port used by the weather widget. Have you guys tried using WIFI instead?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the advise, but still no luck. Already tried everything you said. I tried with mobile data off with just WiFi on but still nothing.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium HD app
---------- Post added at 11:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 AM ----------
RustyWrightOne said:
I had this issue and everything was switched on. All you need to do to fix the issue is go into the clock app and select you location. Worked for me. Took 30 Seconds to update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When you say your location, you mean home location? My home location is set but still no luck. Every time I go in to the clock app, it default to the time zone, which is London, Dublin.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium HD app
Yep, I tried it all, with wifi and mobile data also. I also tried the location setup on the clock.... Still no fix.
Remember, I added the separate HTC clock and weather widget on another desktop screen.. That worked fine with my location. The clock and weather at the top of Blinkfeed are identical, just the weather still shows no data
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
eat1981 said:
Thanks for the advise, but still no luck. Already tried everything you said. I tried with mobile data off with just WiFi on but still nothing.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium HD app
---------- Post added at 11:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 AM ----------
When you say your location, you mean home location? My home location is set but still no luck. Every time I go in to the clock app, it default to the time zone, which is London, Dublin.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I havn't got my phone with me at the minute to check. But it was in the clock app. I think I also deleted all the time zones and reset my location. My clock widget was also fine when the blinkfeed app wasn't. I will be able to check at lunch.
I rebooted mines into recovery then wipe cache and restarted then my location changed to where I live
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
This is kinda funny actually , I currently just study but Google now decided to choose a random location I walked a couple of times to as my "work" and now I get the card quite frequently on Google now , there's no option to not set a "work place " the only thing I can do is edit is the address ... :banghead:
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
when you get to work set that location as is..
Google Now setting have location settings for home and work.
Settings > My Stuff > Places
Sent from my One X using xda premium
Lol I go to this gas station by my house a lot and randomly the other day a card popped up like " would you like to navigate to this place?" I was like whoaaa googluminati
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
slimdizzy said:
Google Now setting have location settings for home and work.
Settings > My Stuff > Places
Sent from my One X using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes but I don't have a job ! If I try to leave the address field empty then it says its an invalid address ...
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Can't you just choose "remove" or "delete"...?
Chad_Petree said:
Yes but I don't have a job ! If I try to leave the address field empty then it says its an invalid address ...
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unemployed? Why not use your home address?.. or maybe the address to the EDD?
ingenious247 said:
Can't you just choose "remove" or "delete"...?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sadly, no. I have the same issue. I work from home, so I use the same address for both. I messes up the % at home, % at work, % away graphs in Latitude, but at least it fixed Google Now giving me useless commute times.
Update: Go to https://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces and remove it there. It may still put in random places anyway though.
hgigh said:
Unemployed? Why not use your home address?.. or maybe the address to the EDD?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got a chuckle out of that one...
But honestly to answer the OP, go to maps.google.com on your computer. I know use your computer for once. Make sure you're signed in, and hit "My Places." You can delete Home and Work by clicking on the expand menu buttons...
Since you frequently visit that place why not just let it give you the information whether you work there or not?
You can also head over to the google now settings and there should be an option to set a different work place ( A place you visit frequently, in my case School )
shockem said:
Since you frequently visit that place why not just let it give you the information whether you work there or not?
You can also head over to the google now settings and there should be an option to set a different work place ( A place you visit frequently, in my case School )
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is it possible to add more than 2 places?
And custom names?
Like home, work, school, daycare, 2nd job, girlfriends house, etc?
Toby-Bear said:
Is it possible to add more than 2 places?
And custom names?
Like home, work, school, daycare, 2nd job, girlfriends house, etc?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is a way. Not by adding it directly to the settings page though.
Search the place you want to go to often and it will automatically give you timings to that place. Google Now will than ask you if you go to the place often and answer yes. :laugh:
Edit: Sorry for the extremely late reply. Did not receive a notification that showed you replied.
shockem said:
There is a way. Not by adding it directly to the settings page though.
Search the place you want to go to often and it will automatically give you timings to that place. Google Now will than ask you if you go to the place often and answer yes. :laugh:
Edit: Sorry for the extremely late reply. Did not receive a notification that showed you replied.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, entering the addresses in Google Now is giving me the estimated travel time.
But it hasn't asked me if I go to the place often.
I'll keep trying, thanks.
I live in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada) and Google Now thinks I live in Hornby, Ontario which is like 45min away from me. Google maps seems to get my exact location (the GPS doesn't lock on it keeps saying "searching for location" or something like that but still shows me exact right location- when I have a SIM the GPS lock works perfectly). Google Now however doesn't fiind my right location with or without a SIM (always connected to internet via wi-fi). When I ask things like "what the weather" or "how's the traffic" it will give me information based on if I was in Hornby which I am not.
This has been going on for a couple of months now and is driving me CRAZY!
Any insight would be helpful - Thanks!
Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
chromium96 said:
Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have my home location set but it still doesn't make a difference.
scream4cheese said:
You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is a workaround if I have to and cannot find a solution to where this would just work
Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Cor-master said:
Always liked how it knew automatically where home and work was. But recently I went to night shift at work and google now keeps wanting me to change work to home, home to work. My saved addresses are correct but it keeps asking me every time. How do you fix this?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the same problem, GoogleNow seems to think my place of work is my home..? Would be nice to fix
Now mine has seemed to have fixed itself oddly
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
With the new maps it can be checked and set in the profile area (head and shoulders icon on the rhs of the search bar).
You can also just go to the maps website and set it there
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Open up Google now and scroll all the way down and press menu > my stuff> places and there's settings for home and work locations. The options for home, work, etc only show up there if in Google now cards you add that specific place as your home or whatever the case is
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Maps 7.0.2: View menu, Settings, Edit home or work.
Has anyone been able yet to just type their destination and have maps navigate like it used to? I'm beyond disgusted with this update. I have to Google the address, select navigate from the web results, select the route, then select start, and if -IF- maps works then it misses my first several turns and announces them late. If it force closes "unfortunately Google maps has stopped responding" I have to repeat these steps 3-5 times. Not to mention my favorites and local have also stopped working properly. This is asinine.
Any work arounds or am I going to have to downgrade?
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2
Hmm, not to sound rude, but, doesn't this question belong in the Google Maps section of XDA?
ObrienDave said:
Hmm, not to sound rude, but, doesn't this question belong in the Google Maps section of XDA?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not to sound b*tchy (here it comes; see 'no offense' rules) but I'm unable to locate anything like that as I'm using a phone, not to mention I'm wondering if its the ROM, kernel, or any of the various other things on the device. The people I seem to get the most educational and informative information from are people in this specific thread.
If you could link to the forum or ask a mod to move the thread that too would help as I have zero control once the thread is posted as to where it stays or is located to.
Also thanks for all your wildly informative help and knowledge on the maps issue. Much appreciated.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2
May I suggest uninstalling the updates and going back to the default version to see if that solves the problem?
I have not used Maps for navigation lately but typing in a destination and getting a route seems to be working just fine.
I used maps the other day to get to my doctors. Then from my doctors I used maps again to get me to a restaurant. Bot times it worked perfectly! Maybe try out a different ROM/Kernel. Or try out a different navigation app.
I agree. I use it on 4.3 daily with no problems. Yes the update did do away with the navigation app that came with maps when you download it but it's integrated into the Google maps app. Type destination, hit the navigation button, choose route, then hit start. No problems with it here but I was wondering what happen to the nav app at first until I opened maps up and saw that it was built into it now.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium
I've seen several other (via Google) people with similar issues and none of the hardware/software I have meanwhile there's people that do have my ROM (Carbon) or kernel (Ktoonsez) or both and it runs well... I've downgraded for now until I can figure out a better solution... Thanks for the input guys.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2
I've been seeing better experience with maps since the update. I'm on stock rom plus root and few other mods.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2
Sigh. I still haven't had any luck with it. Tried several different downloads - just in case - and am still with the same issues. I have even gone so far as to wipe after the uninstall and before I update.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 2