HTC Weather App is Unable to Detect My Current Location. I have turned WiFi on, GPS on, and all areas where detecting or sharing my location is turned on. It was working fine then the widget became locked on a location and would not change with my current location no matter what I done. I could turn the phone off and back on this would fix the issue for a little bit. Then the widget would either lock onto a location and refuse to change or it would display Current Location instead of my real location but the weather would not be correct. I would then try to refresh the weather and a grey bubble would appear and have the text Unable to Detect My Current Location. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I am on the Wildshooter ROM but this issue has happened with every rom I have tried including the stock Rom. I also tried the Accuweather App and had the same issue. Is there a way to change the weather server for HTC's weather app?
I tried searching for a fix and everything I found nothing worked.
Here is a pic of what the weather application and widget is doing.
try setting "allow mock locations", maybe that would help? look in:
menu/settings/applications/development/
Man this problem bugged me for a good while. Here what I did and hopefully it will help you. Turn on wifi and try to update weather. Then turn off wifi. Then turn on mobile internet and also make sure to enable always on mobile in settings as well. Then try to update weather and it should find your location.
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Enabling Background Data
I noticed that when Background Data is not enabled, some apps don't sync. Making sure it's enabled may help. It's found under Settings > Accounts & sync > Background data.
Thanks for both of the suggestions but neither worked for me. Still stuck on current location.
Did you turn off wif completely and only enable mobile data???
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yes. I even went into manage apps and cleared the data to the HTC weather sync provider. Nothing seems to work. I really dont want to get rid of the weather and clock widget but the weather is worthless. My city is not located in the location either. I was hoping that the current location feature would work as it was intended. I wonder if there would be a way to change weather providers and use google or weather.com or something like that.
I know gps works because google maps shows my location.
Anymore suggestions?............
Try this
Get rid of the weather widget on your home screen if you have one there. Then
clear the data once again on the weather app & the weather widget app in settings. Then turn off mobile data,back ground data,gps,location by wireless network and disable/uncheck always-on mobile data as well. Then boot into recovery and wipe cache & davlik cache. After you've rebooted back into your rom turn on gps, "leave location by wireless network unchecked" then turn on mobile data,background data and enable/check always-on mobile data. Then open up your app drawer and tap on the weather app and press menu then select add/+. Then put in your location. After it brings up your location then select it. The app should go black then just press menu then refresh. Then back out of the app until you see your home screen. Then add the widget back to your home screen and see if it displays your weather location. I hope it does. If not then go back to accounts & sync and select weather and sync it. Then check to see if it helped the issue. Also have you checked to make sure your under sprint only and not automatic in the mobile network settings???
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laie1472 said:
Try this
Get rid of the weather widget on your home screen if you have one there. Then
clear the data once again on the weather app & the weather widget app in settings. Then turn off mobile data,back ground data,gps,location by wireless network and disable/uncheck always-on mobile data as well. Then boot into recovery and wipe cache & davlik cache. After you've rebooted back into your rom turn on gps, "leave location by wireless network unchecked" then turn on mobile data,background data and enable/check always-on mobile data. Then open up your app drawer and tap on the weather app and press menu then select add/+. Then put in your location. After it brings up your location then select it. The app should go black then just press menu then refresh. Then back out of the app until you see your home screen. Then add the widget back to your home screen and see if it displays your weather location. I hope it does. If not then go back to accounts & sync and select weather and sync it. Then check to see if it helped the issue. Also have you checked to make sure your under sprint only and not automatic in the mobile network settings???
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Ok I followed these instructions to the T and the end result is t still didn't correct my issue. After I rebot my phone it fixes the issue for a few mins and then it screws up and get stuck on current location. I am at a loss for words. I have read several other places on the internet with other people with HTC phones having this same issue but there were no fixes. It seems like there is an issue with the GPS communitating with the weather app. IDK and IDK how to fix it! Still open to suggestions................. Thanks to everyone who is trying to help me.
Ok I finally broke down and called HTC the rep advised me that this is a known issue that is a problem on all HTC devices. He said that a fix for this is most likely going to be rolled out in the next few weeks. He said there were some other issues that will be corrected in the next update. He said not to worry that also in the next few weeks ICS will start to slowly roll out to our phones and the issue is corrected on this as well.
Sorry to bring up an old thread.
I have a similar issue where my location on the weather app is shown as United Kingdom. It use to work fine until I messed with the radios, could be just coincidence though.
Anyone know a fix ?
thanks
edit.. should mention it's been the same on my last 2 different roms.
Did you try any of the tips here ???
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Found this after having similar problem with HTC weather. On HTC one S, running ICS and the weather occasionally cannot find my location so just returns "Null" location and "01. Partly cloudy" weather.
Noticed because am using live wallpaper. This runs for 10ish secs before freezing, which I believe is normal, but also rarely animates. It does not run if phone unlocked, or when weather is updated, or when returning to home screen. Beautiful, but useless it seems!
I wish there was a fix for this.
My location will never detect properly. I live in a city in the stix, so my city wont showup in the settings of weather thing, is there a way i could get my zip code in it even if it doesnt show up in the list of cities?
Hi all.
I just got mine working after going to Settings/Location/Google Location Reporting and turned it off. Now displaying my area.
Hope this helps.
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On Desire s i had same problem and resolve it.
I just untick fast boot in power menu,turn off/on phone and location get back fine.
Had GPS issues but found it was "first find" issue so got plenty of sats and good location and lock after 10 mmin wait. Done with no WiFi, outside. Also done within range of Wifi.
My issue is that when I bring it inside and loose the GPS as expected indoors it goes from my current location on Maps to some where in Illinois 2000 miles away. Thought it may be a Wifi location issue but other devices I have that locate by WiFi show correct location. Tried clearing cache, cold start, rebooting, reloading Maps (although not sure if it is a true reload as it does not disappear after selecting uninstall but does ask to install) same issue. Search could not find similar problem.
This issue then causes any app that uses location like weather to give the data for somewhere else.
Seems like it should remember where it was or at least not go immediately some where else. Should it not locate by Wifi too? I'm wondering why it goes to this location too. Was this a returned unit?
Thanks
I have an Evo 3D.
This is driving me nuts, I seem to be unable to download app updates anymore. It attempts to download forever, the progress staying at zero, and eventually gives me error 495.
I tried Googling this, and attempted every solution I could find. I tried signing in and out of my google account, clearing the cache of ALL my apps, rebooting my phone, turning off my WiFi, and clearing more space. Nothing worked.
It appears there's something wrong with the Google Play service, I can't download any apps when connected to Wifi, and there are others having the same issue.
I have had this issue for a long time now. I just used to decide that I'll wait till i get home and download over WiFi (which worked).
But that's not a solution!!!
On my JellyBean One X:
1. Go to Settings
2. In Wireless and Networks, tap on More
3. Select Usage
4. Tap on Menu in top-right corner and make sure Restrict background data is not ticked
5. Also, uncheck Limit mobile data usage (a message appears saying that all background data restrictions will be disabled).
It is the background data restriction that causes this issue (atleast for me).
I had done the whole shabang:
Clear google play cache, data, etc. re-login with Google account, reboot, etc.
Hi folks. Havin an issue with my VZW S4. When i go into an app that uses gps (ie ingress) the gps won't initiate. if i toggle it on and off it turns on and locks immediately. Its done this 3 times now in the past few weeks, i've factory reset twice which fixes it and it just did it again. I've cleared data on ingress, maps and google search, trying to think of anything that uses location. i'm getting tired of setting up my phone again, any ideas? Thanks.
So figured out the issue. Its something with google play services. I went into the location menu and guess i just never noticed that google play services was down in the list of recent apps to use location. When the gps issue starts, if i go in and clear data on google play services, the gps kicks back in in a second or two. So not sure why, but thats the app thats causing it. At least i don't have to do a factory reset anymore when it happens. sigh.
Was this stock Rom, or custom Rom?
I'm in the UK and have a UK Galaxy S6 Edge running G925FXXU3COI9, stock/unrooted.
It's got a location problem. Firstly, I have the 'My Places' widget set up, but made the mistake a few months ago of changing my 'Home' location whilst I was on holiday. Now I can't get it to let go of that alternative location. I've tried setting it as the current location (my actual home) many many times, but it always goes back to the Orlando address. I've tried resetting the 'My Places' app, removing Data/Cache, but nothing has worked so far. The workaround is to set it to use 'Wifi' as the determining factor, but even then, after a short while it reinstates the 'Map' method and adds the Orlando address.
Also, I've recently moved Work locations. I set my new Work address in my Google Account 'Places', a few days ago and it shows correctly there, but my phone still thinks I work in the old location. If I go into the 'Maps' app, the blue pointer thinks I'm in the old location, if I rotate the phone, the arrow rotates, but nothing I do makes it see where I actually am. Again, I've removed Data/Cache and its still the same.
I just voice prompted Google Now with 'Where am I'. It gave me my old work address where I haven't been for over a week. I also removed all the Google Now card preferences and that made no difference.
Any ideas?
So, I went into Google Maps at the weekend, my phone could see that I was at home. I've made the journey to work this morning and my phone currently thinks I am at my old place of work, which is about 6 miles from here.
How can it be so?!