[Q] Location not showing on home screen - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Strange problem. I can't find a way to put my GPS location on my home screen. It used to work flawlessly. But now it doesn't. I checked my GPS settings and they work fine. Even turn-by-turn Navigation works fine. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? It used to change if I went into another area (across the bridge into another state). Is there some secret? It seems it hasn't worked since I started flashing different custom ROMs. Could this be my problem? I really don't think this is the problem, but I really want this to start working. Anyone?

ojones838 said:
Strange problem. I can't find a way to put my GPS location on my home screen. It used to work flawlessly. But now it doesn't. I checked my GPS settings and they work fine. Even turn-by-turn Navigation works fine. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? It used to change if I went into another area (across the bridge into another state). Is there some secret? It seems it hasn't worked since I started flashing different custom ROMs. Could this be my problem? I really don't think this is the problem, but I really want this to start working. Anyone?
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I guess that would depend on what rom you are on now and what widget you were using to get the location to display to begin with (I'm assuming you're referring to it working with a stock ROM?).
Please tell us first what you were using when you were able to use it.

tdunham said:
I guess that would depend on what rom you are on now and what widget you were using to get the location to display to begin with (I'm assuming you're referring to it working with a stock ROM?).
Please tell us first what you were using when you were able to use it.
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tdunham, I'm sure I was on some type of rooted stock ROM. Since then I've used Blu Kuban, Mijjah's Goodness and a few other custom ROM's. I've usually used the digital clock, along with a Beautiful Widgets weather widget. I think it was about this time I lost my location display. Are there only certain weather widgets that display your location?

ojones838 said:
tdunham, I'm sure I was on some type of rooted stock ROM. Since then I've used Blu Kuban, Mijjah's Goodness and a few other custom ROM's. I've usually used the digital clock, along with a Beautiful Widgets weather widget. I think it was about this time I lost my location display. Are there only certain weather widgets that display your location?
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Yes, it's probably that simple . I seem to recall a weather widget that would show the location. It might have been beautiful widgets. I haven't used that one in a while. I'm using Accuweather right now and it shows my location too but if I want it to change, I have to go into settings and 'Enable Current Location' (right now mine is static, I just entered my zipcode when I set it up). I'm sure it's the same for other weather widgets too.

DO you have the options checked under the location menu. You have to do this for each rom since they are unchecked by default (3 options). I never leave gps checked but I do check the other two options in ics roms and it works fine.

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Default clock widget on HTC Desire

the clock also has my "supposed" location" just underneath the time.
Is there any way to change the settings on the widget to remove the location as the location is never correct ( i think it may be the location of the phone mast it is using )
Also if i remove the clock widget altogether, how do i get it back as Ive been into Add Widgets and it is not the "Analog Clock" by Andoird or the Clock by HTC
Have you clicked on the Clock by HTC and gone right? Its there.
When you re-add it you can add a City of anywhere, so you can manually choose your own city. Not sure about the name, haven't really looked at that part...
it is the clock by h t c you need to swipe to the right to see the version you're talking about.
when you choose the widget you can choose any location you want
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yeah that is it, i thought it was a differen one as it had the weather in it.
Doesn't look there is a way to disable the location
dougsdir said:
yeah that is it, i thought it was a differen one as it had the weather in it.
Doesn't look there is a way to disable the location
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I dunno about disabling location but you can pick your own location instead of it doing it automatically.
dougsdir said:
yeah that is it, i thought it was a differen one as it had the weather in it.
Doesn't look there is a way to disable the location
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I don't need an app to tell me what the weather is right now, where I am right now. I've got five built-in senses that do a pretty good job of working that out, no data connection necessary.
I like the flip clock though.
Related (But not what OP asked). The Defaulted clock the Location was wrong at Arrival obviously. However after changing it into the Right City the weather plugin on the Homescreen now displays the right area (Although lacking the proper letters "å ä ö" are displayed as "a a o" but that's not the problem. Once I hit the weather it suddenly displays the "Current" city seems to be defaulted at "Sweden"... Is there a way to change that Current city or force it so it displays the right things?
biemsy said:
I don't need an app to tell me what the weather is right now, where I am right now. I've got five built-in senses that do a pretty good job of working that out, no data connection necessary.
I like the flip clock though.
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Have a look on the market for a flip clock app then or just IGNORE the weather on it.

HTC Clock Widget Problem

So for some reason the weather of my current location is messed up and wont load. It's stuck at a high of 55º and low of 0º and the weather doesnt load on the widget. If i choose a city the weather works fine, just not with the current location. Anyone know what could be causing this or have a fix?
chingy51o said:
So for some reason the weather of my current location is messed up and wont load. It's stuck at a high of 55º and low of 0º and the weather doesnt load on the widget. If i choose a city the weather works fine, just not with the current location. Anyone know what could be causing this or have a fix?
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Try going to settings, applications, and then look for the htc weather and try clearing cache or data. I hope that help
This happening to me right now as well, so I don't think going into settings will help...
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Yeah happening to my brothers phone also. Freakin HTC. Lol
Systemfraud said:
This happening to me right now as well, so I don't think going into settings will help...
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Sent from my Incredible ass phone
Yep I just bought 2 new Evos and had them less then a week and we both today were talking about the weather portion of the widget not working correctly.
was happening earlier today for me as well, but all is normal now
Delete the widget and just reinstall it and that should fix it. I believe they updated it along with accuweather.
If you notice now that when you click the weather to go the detailed weather page at the bottom where it says weather if you click that it will now take you to the accuweather webpage and you can view more detailed info. I believe it used to be this way got broken and now they fixed it. I like it. And if you watch it were it says weather with time below it now switches back and forth from the time to "More details online" .
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Delete the widget and just reinstall it and that should fix it. I believe they updated it along with accuweather.
If you notice now that when you click the weather to go the detailed weather page at the bottom where it says weather if you click that it will now take you to the accuweather webpage and you can view more detailed info. I believe it used to be this way got broken and now they fixed it. I like it. And if you watch it were it says weather with time below it now switches back and forth from the time to "More details online" .
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Mine doesn't. The only time I noticed it doing that is when I had multiple locations. The non home locations did it, but not the home.
flomexico said:
Mine doesn't. The only time I noticed it doing that is when I had multiple locations. The non home locations did it, but not the home.
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I just tested, I run multiple locations also and it works on both of them, home and my other one.
Running Stock Froyo
I did a reboot and it fixed the weather issue.
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spoocobra said:
I just tested, I run multiple locations also and it works on both of them, home and my other one.
Running Stock Froyo
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Strange, same here. Ive already rebooted, reinstated the widget, etc.
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chingy51o said:
So for some reason the weather of my current location is messed up and wont load. It's stuck at a high of 55º and low of 0º and the weather doesnt load on the widget. If i choose a city the weather works fine, just not with the current location. Anyone know what could be causing this or have a fix?
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had the same issue yesterday... but it's working fine today

Accuweather Widget not updating location?

So I have noticed that no the accuweather widget will update the temp and stuff fine, but will not update to my current location?
If I go in and manually add a location it will change to it, but then no matter where I go it stays on that location. I have tried looking at settings, tried deleting and re-adding it, and just does not seem to follow me.
Anyone have this problem? Any ideas.....
Assuming this can't be fixed I was thinking of using weather channel and that widget as I know it updates based on your location, but I am worried about battery drain. Besides I actually like the default weather on the phone, but it is a killer that it will not update. I travel a ton for work and don't want to add every location.
TIA
Have you tried removing the widget and adding it back? I've noticed some funkiness with widgets in general after flashing and/or restoring and that usually fixes things for me.
EDIT: and even though it should matter, try adding the widget back and updating the settings outside so it can get a GPS lock. It should be able to figure out where you are from the cell tower, but I've notice the GPS icon in the status bar when I was messing with the setting.
amoricaorbust said:
Have you tried removing the widget and adding it back? I've noticed some funkiness with widgets in general after flashing and/or restoring and that usually fixes things for me.
EDIT: and even though it should matter, try adding the widget back and updating the settings outside so it can get a GPS lock. It should be able to figure out where you are from the cell tower, but I've notice the GPS icon in the status bar when I was messing with the setting.
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I tried doing that a bunch of times thinking it may help. It really doesn't seem to make any difference. I notice when I was playing with the weather channel widget every time I wake my phone up I see the gps icon for a few seconds. Wonder if that should happen with accuweather too? I have made sure that the Enable current location is on too.
Hmmmm so yours updates huh?
AccuWeather does not have that option! I know it sucks. Yea! You can only add the cities you want or go to
evolishesh said:
AccuWeather does not have that option! I know it sucks. Yea! You can only add the cities you want or go to
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Really?? Then what the heck does the enable my location do. Says something like lets the widget track your location and update....something to that effect.
That sucks then. Anyone have any hood weather widget that updates?
salth2o said:
Really?? Then what the heck does the enable my location do. Says something like lets the widget track your location and update....something to that effect.
That sucks then. Anyone have any hood weather widget that updates?
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Weather bug! Try it
evolishesh said:
Weather bug! Try it[
Cool I'll give it a shot and hope it doesn't kill my battery
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salth2o said:
I tried doing that a bunch of times thinking it may help. It really doesn't seem to make any difference. I notice when I was playing with the weather channel widget every time I wake my phone up I see the gps icon for a few seconds. Wonder if that should happen with accuweather too? I have made sure that the Enable current location is on too.
Hmmmm so yours updates huh?
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You get a free Thanks. Clicking all sorts of wrong buttons today...
When I was using it, I had a problem once when it wasn't updating at all. Took me about a week to notice. Removed the widget and added it back in and it started back up fine. But I've switched back to Beautiful Widgets.
Added the Accuweather widget on my homescreen as a test. It was blank after I first dropped it on the screen so clicked on it. The first thing it asked me was if I wanted to use my Current Location and automatically filled it in. Exited out and after a few seconds everything populated.

[Q] HTC Sense/Stock Widgets issue

The other day I pulled my phone out of my pocket to check the time and was shocked to find all my icons/shortcuts missing. On all 7 screens. I easily restored the items I had on my main home page like retro clock/date, market, internet etc.
The problem that is driving me effing nuts is the toggle switches I had on the 2nd page to the left of home, wifi, 4g, mobile, gps, etc. I cannot find them to add them back. I have gone to add widget>settings> the only 2 items listed are airplane mode and bluetooth and no others. I am not speaking of the power control option in widgets. I have tried to add from widgets, shortcuts, apps and folders. the toggle switches are non existent. Now I just noticed I cannot find the stock clock that comes preloaded on the phone. I use the retro clock from the market anyways but the stock clock is another item i cant use along with the weather page. I can add a shortcut for weather that i need to click to open the weather screen.
seems like a portion or all of sense is effed up or gone. What are my options besides a complete factory reset, assuming that would even fix this issue.
I am running stock rom with all current versions of SW
download from market?
There's lots of toggle widgets in the market.
Understood however getting different ones from the market does not explain where the stock ones went or how to get them back
A factory reset should fix your problem, unless the issue is within system itself. I'd just flash the stock rom over itself, wipe cache and dalvik only and see if that fixes it.
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Ok thnx ill most likely end up doing that, I wanted to avoid having to do a factory reset but looks like I dont have much choice.
Another question, there is normally a spot in system info for htc sense version right?
Ok so after looking at running processes I discovered that htc sense is currently a cached background process and I dont have an option to restart it or anything.
Long press the screen where you want to add the widget. The go to Widgets > Get more HTC widgets at the top and the one you are looking for should be in there. I hope this helps.
Thnx. I know how to add widgets and everything else. The problem is when I attempt to add by going to widgets>setrings> the only 2 items that are listed is airplane mode and bluetooth, not the 7 or 8 items that are normally there. I also cant add the stock clock, weather widget or pretty much any of the items that are supposed to be there.
Today I did a side by side comparison with another stock rom evo, ome that works as it should and could not really find anything useful. Mine is simply just missing almost all stock widgets
I found the Widgets under settings. I'm not running stock so I can't duplicate. When my wife gets home I can use hers.
I find a lot just by going through every possible selection. You can find some interesting stuff that way
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Ya you can. I know exactly where they are supposed to be they just are no longer there. I did a factory reset and it fixed it
Glad its fixed. I know how annoying a little thing like that can be. Funny how sometimes the simple things stump us the greatest!!!
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HTC's Weather Unavailable

The weather/clock widget on my lockscreen says "Weather Unavailable" ! I found it, that if I turn of my location settings, the weather will show up again, but I do not want it to stay on all the time, so what I did is I went to the weather options and added manually my city, hoping that it will no longer be necessary to leave location service on all the time, but NO, that didn't happen, it still says "Weather Unavailable" !
What am I missing ? With any other weather app I seam to be able to add the city manually and not to worry bout the location setting to be on constantly, so is there a way to do the same with HTC's weather widget ?
Thanks
Haik0 said:
The weather/clock widget on my lockscreen says "Weather Unavailable" ! I found it, that if I turn of my location settings, the weather will show up again, but I do not want it to stay on all the time, so what I did is I went to the weather options and added manually my city, hoping that it will no longer be necessary to leave location service on all the time, but NO, that didn't happen, it still says "Weather Unavailable" !
What am I missing ? With any other weather app I seam to be able to add the city manually and not to worry bout the location setting to be on constantly, so is there a way to do the same with HTC's weather widget ?
Thanks
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i have Problems or had Problems too...my village where i live wasn't found but adding it manually worked for a few minutes...now flashed another Rom but not because of that and see there...it works normally again
One-M8-Master said:
i have Problems or had Problems too...my village where i live wasn't found but adding it manually worked for a few minutes...now flashed another Rom but not because of that and see there...it works normally again
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I have no problem finding my city, it is immediately detected by the app, also I am getting the weather info inside the weather app itself, but on the lockscreen widget it just shows "WEATHER UNAVAILABLE"
At first I though that I probably "hibernated" something from Greenify, responsible for updating the weather info, but no! there is nothing that is remotely related to weather widget
Haik0 said:
I have no problem finding my city, it is immediately detected by the app, also I am getting the weather info inside the weather app itself, but on the lockscreen widget it just shows "WEATHER UNAVAILABLE"
At first I though that I probably "hibernated" something from Greenify, responsible for updating the weather info, but no! there is nothing that is remotely related to weather widget
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yea that was my Problem too so after re-flashing the same Rom or flashing new one it is fixed...so yea something from HTC what we hibernated seems to broke it...i had the really same Problem like you ...the City/village whatever Name wasn't there and i couldn't update manually but automatic worked even without the Name...just reflash Rom
One-M8-Master said:
yea that was my Problem too so after re-flashing the same Rom or flashing new one it is fixed...so yea something from HTC what we hibernated seems to broke it...i had the really same Problem like you ...the City/village whatever Name wasn't there and i couldn't update manually but automatic worked even without the Name...just reflash Rom
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Ok, Thanks a lot for your response !!
One more question. While ago I took the weather/clock widget off my homescreen, now I don't seam to be able to find it in the widgets chooser ) Could you pleas take a look at your widget chooser and tell me what the name of that HTC's default widget name ?
Thanks
Haik0 said:
Ok, Thanks a lot for your response !!
One more question. While ago I took the weather/clock widget off my homescreen, now I don't seam to be able to find it in the widgets chooser ) Could you pleas take a look at your widget chooser and tell me what the name of that HTC's default widget name ?
Thanks
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World clock, at the end of the list
The weather seems to work if u set location settings to high accuracy or battery saving mode
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sameer1807 said:
The weather seems to work if u set location settings to high accuracy or battery saving mode
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Nope even then I had problems but it works now...it has to do with greenify if you greenify even one time only something minimal related to it it will break it even after reboot...only reflashing seems to help
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World clock, at the end of the list
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Thanks a lot for the name of the widget ) !!
sameer1807 said:
The weather seems to work if u set location settings to high accuracy or battery saving mode
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Yes I can confirm, it works on ether of those settings ( high accuracy or battery saving). But the location setting is just to determine the location, that's it. After that a mobile data or wifi is required to get the weather info for that area (previously determined by the location service), but I have already added the location manually in to the weather app, but yet it still requires to have the location service On, constantly

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