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.
RSS workaround
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.
Hey everyone,
is there any chance of a port of the always on display of the S7 for the N4? I tried most apps from the store, but they are either only a clock, invaded with adds or cumbersome to use (or all of that )
Any thing you can recommend?
Disregard. I searched the wrong thing and didn't find it. After looking again I guess VZW crippled it or Samsung left it out. But then why are there instruction for S7 Edge...
Nowhere to be found to add the new S7 Edge to it. Don't want to run Google Device Manager because that's another app. Should be built in like it always was. Any ideas?
Hi dear all, I have a strange problem. I was using my S7 edge with the new gear VR (2016 edition). All was going well. Suddenly Samsung decided to bring an update named Oculus Home for China and after installing it, I can,t access the apps I had purchased and downloaded from Oculus store. The new Gear VR home only shows me the apps downloaded from Galaxy app store. It's really weird. How could Samsung ditch Oculus. Oculus is written even on the gear VR. Can anyone help me and get me out of this trouble. Thanks (By the way I live now in China but even in China, Oculus apps I had already purchased were working till Samsung forced a new update by installing Oculus Home for China.
Hi,
I live in China too and have the same issue with my Galaxy S7 Edge (Hong Kong G9350). As I understand it, both international (com.oculus.home) and China (com.oculus.gearchina) version of Oculus Home can co-exist on the phone, but the default app will be determined by the origin of the SIM card.
So if it isn't already in the device, the international version of Oculus Home home needs first to be installed. For this, a foreign SIM card and a foreign VPN connection are now needed (the device then just needs to be docked into the Gear VR to trigger the download and install process). I also saw on a Chinese forum that an app called 妙镜vr supposedly can force-start the download the international version of Oculus, but I didn't try that.
Once the downloads and installs are complete, the international version of Oculus can be used as long as you have a foreign SIM or no SIM in. However as soon as you dock the phone to the GearVR with a Chinese SIM in, you will be prompted to download and install "Oculus Home for China". If you do so, you will end up with a phone having both versions, with the Chinese one being the default. But this doesn't mean that the international version can not be used. You can still launch it from the Oculus Store app, via the blue banner that invites you to enter VR, or in the Oculus library of apps, where each VR app can be started individually. Another way to do it is to use a third party app such as QuickShortcutMaker, which will allow you to create a direct shortcut to Oculus Home (com.oculus.home) or any VR app.
The downside of these workarounds is that when you leave a VR app via the back button, you will be brought back to the "Oculus Home for China", which means that you actually have to undock the phone before being able to launch another app... In any case, remember that this is a reversible situation since you can always change the default Oculus Home just by switching to a foreign SIM card.
Hello guys.. as title suggests, volte is soon to be deployed across country and Telenor has already activated it according to them (although there is still not much about it on their website) and Zong will soon follow Telenor.
So for guys who are using S7 series in Pk, our phones are near the end of their software support (unless samsung updates their policy), we may not be able to receive the volte enabling updates in our phones for Pk networks, but the updates will come for S8/S9 series for sure.
So, in this regard I have created this thread if anyone of you owns an S8/S9 too and gets those volte updates, do share those csc specific settings embedded in the rom here : root/system/csc/pak/system/csc/customer.xml&others.xml
I am sure someone at xda would be able to copy those settings for S7 series too (if its possible). I have attached the current pak csc settings if someone wants to modify them to test for volte networks and others to try them.
I will keep this thread updated accordingly in case of any development in this regard.