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I am running the sense clock with weather and now the weather will not show up unless I have wifi running?? hmm
I would check settings for mobile data to be on.
I tried that still no go.. ugh sucks
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I believe your problem is with your phone not knowing where you are. Your phone hasn't received any data from the gps satellites. Wifi helps with location, so that is why it would work then. Check your location settings and make sure both options are checked, and load google maps. Once it knows your location it should work. If not, try removing and adding the widgets again, or rebooting
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I believe your problem is with your phone not knowing where you are. Your phone hasn't received any data from the gps satellites. Wifi helps with location, so that is why it would work then. Check your location settings and make sure both options are checked, and load google maps. Once it knows your location it should work. If not, try removing and adding the widgets again, or rebooting
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Seems to be working thanks
Ugh its still doing it..
My is kinda doing the same. If I manually refresh it finds me.
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IM RUNNING CALKS latest and greatest btw... Most all fixes get a fast lock, or at least a lock after a reboot. The REAL test is:will it still get a lock after, lets say, 8hrs? This is the only "fix" that has truly passed that test... Try it, and you will agree I like to open gps status and get a lock on satelites before i use my gps too, if that makes any difference.
This zip, plus GPS status works the best. Wipe dalvik and cache then flash away....
Best way to check is use GPS to get first lock and directions.... if that's good, then try to do the same thing a few hours later BEFORE A REBOOT.... works like a charm.... I finally think this one works guys... check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13140032&postcount=17953
What problem is this fixing?
I have been using GPS Status for a long time. I would do the same on my Epic...open GPS Status, let it lock then Maps and Telenav had much better and quicker lock. I wasn't aware of those area fixes though. Telenav has been flawless on this phone for me around L.A. but I will definitely see what they're about. Thanks
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Bielinsk said:
What problem is this fixing?
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A good number of unlucky people like me were experiencing SHAKY GPS.
This is fixing my gps not working at all... Sometimes it would work off of several reboots.Same for my gf's et4g. i was tempted to exchange it for another et4g. I've had my phone since day 1, and gps has never worked consistenly.. Now it works flawlessly! Thanks again Angeldeath!!
##GPSCLRX# + MSL will reset your gps, a lot less of a pain too if your having problems getting a fix.
i think the gps is very weak. i can never get a lock in my basement while my evos never had a problem. when im outside, my e4gt will get a lock eventually.
tried all kinda of fixes none work. though i think i must have borked it somehow. maybe a complete reformat will fix it but dont wanna do that any time soon
JohnCorleone said:
open GPS Status, let it lock then Maps and Telenav had much better and quicker lock.
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Now, do I need to do this every time I need to use Maps or Telenav? Is there no slightly more permanent fix?
I got 10/10 locked inside within 3 meters. Very nice. Thanks
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My stock gps locks prefect. But for location weather apps like fancy widget and minimalistic text show the wrong location. Will this help? Or does it only help with location locking? My maps and nav work prefect though
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locoboi187 said:
My stock gps locks prefect. But for location weather apps like fancy widget and minimalistic text show the wrong location. Will this help? Or does it only help with location locking? My maps and nav work prefect though
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Anyone else try this to confirm a fix and do you need to be rooted?
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i live in iowa so i used the US-Mid-East zip from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953630
Depending on where you live should determine which zip you should download. And if you travel all over the u.s., just use the north american zip.(i recommend using the zip for the actual area that you live in)... Next, flash from recovery, then install GPS Status & Toolbox from the market.Turn on gps, open up gps status & toolbox, and select menu/settings/Display & Tools.. Then check "Show time to Gps fix"...keep gps status & toolbox open till sats are fixed..DONE. NOW I get immediate locks!!!
Anytime you reboot or power off, you have to open GPS Status to fix sats... THANKYOU ANGELDEATH and Xenova FOR THIS WONDERFUL GPS FIX THAT ACTUALLY WORKS FOR OUR PHONES!!!
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Another Iowa Native! Me 2, whereabouts?
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Lol there's a Florida specific zip? I didn't know we were that ****ed.
this fix doesn't work
my phone was good until last week, now navigation never works, GPS takes 30-90 seconds to get a location within a few meters of me.
i've been trying everything, as many have been, and this fix only works for the first minute after using gps status. if i wait an hour and check maps again, i have to reset and re-download to get sats again and it still doesn't always work.
at this point i'm mildly convinced it's a hardware issue. unless a new driver is found, i'm going to try to get an exchange soon.
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Going back to square one (so far) has been a good fix - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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Nope, going back to pure stock works as temporary as flashing regional GPS sats or clearing GPS cache
pyrostic said:
Another Iowa Native! Me 2, whereabouts?
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des moines
FINALLY!!!
elingreen said:
my phone was good until last week, now navigation never works, GPS takes 30-90 seconds to get a location within a few meters of me.
i've been trying everything, as many have been, and this fix only works for the first minute after using gps status. if i wait an hour and check maps again, i have to reset and re-download to get sats again and it still doesn't always work.
at this point i'm mildly convinced it's a hardware issue. unless a new driver is found, i'm going to try to get an exchange soon.
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Going back to square one (so far) has been a good fix - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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Nope, going back to pure stock works as temporary as flashing regional GPS sats or clearing GPS cache
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i counted my chickens before they hatched, because i had the same problem as you. But look what i found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100114&page=220
This gps.config below works for our phones and actually fixes OUR problem.. it doesnt require constant reboots or anything... i also use gps status and toolbox.... just replace your gps.conf using root explorer and you are good to go. its in the /etc folder... dont forget to take off the .txt before you replace the gps.conf
Awesome! beweather now gets a lock inside my house instead of constantly searching
Originally Posted by elingreen
my phone was good until last week, now navigation never works, GPS takes 30-90 seconds to get a location within a few meters of me.
i've been trying everything, as many have been, and this fix only works for the first minute after using gps status. if i wait an hour and check maps again, i have to reset and re-download to get sats again and it still doesn't always work.
at this point i'm mildly convinced it's a hardware issue. unless a new driver is found, i'm going to try to get an exchange soon.
Edit:
Going back to square one (so far) has been a good fix - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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Nope, going back to pure stock works as temporary as flashing regional GPS sats or clearing GPS cache
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i counted my chickens before they hatched, because i had the same problem as you. But look what i found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100114&page=220
This gps.config below works for our phones and actually fixes OUR problem.. it doesnt require constant reboots or anything... i also use gps status and toolbox.... just replace your gps.conf using root explorer and you are good to go. its in the /etc folder... dont forget to take off the .txt before you replace the gps.conf
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Thanks! Im in the car and pulled up Google maps. My GPS didn't lock on. I used your file, rebooted and launched maps again. It locked on within seconds. Before the file change it wasn't locking while moving in the car even after a few minutes.
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locoboi187 said:
My stock gps locks prefect. But for location weather apps like fancy widget and minimalistic text show the wrong location. Will this help? Or does it only help with location locking? My maps and nav work prefect though
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Some of those weather apps use the network location, not gps, and some display the nearest weather reporting station instead of your exact location. It all depends where the apps get its information from.
Beautiful widgets reported Dudley as location, the town next to me, probably using that tower. Weather Bug reports popular bluff airport, 25 miles away.
Why is thw Xtra download flag disabled? What is Xtra download?
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HI. I have bought Samsung Galaxy S3 a month ago and everything goes really nice. But yesterday i realized that the stock weather widget that it has it gives me wrong location. I tried everything to fix this but nothing worked. The truth is that I like it very much and i do not want to replace it with something else. Is there a way to fix it???
P.S. My gps works really fast and it shows me my current location without any problem.
jprentzas said:
HI. I have bought Samsung Galaxy S3 a month ago and everything goes really nice. But yesterday i realized that the stock weather widget that it has it gives me wrong location. I tried everything to fix this but nothing worked. The truth is that I like it very much and i do not want to replace it with something else. Is there a way to fix it???
P.S. My gps works really fast and it shows me my current location without any problem.
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Wrong location by how far? It could be that's it's getting the closest possible results.
You can always try to enter your location manually.
BWolf56 said:
Wrong location by how far? It could be that's it's getting the closest possible results.
You can always try to enter your location manually.
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I live in Peristeri that is a suburb of Athens. All the other days was showing me the correct location which is Peristeri but now it showing me Athens. Let's say is about three or five kilometers the one location to the other. To test it I went to my village yesterday and it happen again. It shows me only the big cities now and not the small ones that it used to.
I checked Accuweather to see if there is a problem with their site that I believe this is where the widget gets the locations but I didn’t find something there.. (I think this is silly to do that!!!!)
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I live in Peristeri that is a suburb of Athens. All the other days was showing me the correct location which is Peristeri but now it showing me Athens. Let's say is about three or five kilometers the one location to the other. To test it I went to my village yesterday and it happen again. It shows me only the big cities now and not the small ones that it used to.
I checked Accuweather to see if there is a problem with their site that I believe this is where the widget gets the locations but I didn’t find something there.. (I think this is silly to do that!!!!)
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a 3-5 kms difference will give the same weather, if it was a 20-50 kms difference, then maybe it would matter but unless you get the wrong weather, I'm not sure what the problem is.
When it updates, it will take the closest reading. So if at that time, you're closer to Athens, then that's what it will show until it updates in Peristeri. If you don't want that to happen, just set your location manually (in weather settings) to Peristeri and it will never change.
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a 3-5 kms difference will give the same weather, if it was a 20-50 kms difference, then maybe it would matter but unless you get the wrong weather, I'm not sure what the problem is.
When it updates, it will take the closest reading. So if at that time, you're closer to Athens, then that's what it will show until it updates in Peristeri. If you don't want that to happen, just set your location manually (in weather settings) to Peristeri and it will never change.
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I think i have to deal with it!!! Thank you for your replays!
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I think i have to deal with it!!! Thank you for your replays!
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I had the same problem, except the distance to the wrong location for me was more like 30 miles! I even tried setting it manually, tried setting it with my GPS [which showed me in the proper place] etc. all with no luck!
My solution, switched weather apps ... I use 1Weather and works fine!
Odd. I live in a township that's only 9 people and it finds it in AccuWeather
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After rooting my phone and installed new custom rom and roll over to stock it works fine and it shows me the smalles village. Maybe because I cleat the chache with custom recovery. Now I am in full stock and the widget works fine
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Hello, I have an issue with the stock weather widget (accuweather) not updating automatically. I have to actually click on it and open it up for the information to update even though the refresh time is set to 1 hour. I tried rebooting, removing and re-adding widget. My Ace 2 has JB XXMF1 stock rom and rooted. I removed some of the bloatware (but not accuweather). Anyone know how to fix this?
bomberb17 said:
Hello, I have an issue with the stock weather widget (accuweather) not updating automatically. I have to actually click on it and open it up for the information to update even though the refresh time is set to 1 hour. I tried rebooting, removing and re-adding widget. My Ace 2 has JB XXMF1 stock rom and rooted. I removed some of the bloatware (but not accuweather). Anyone know how to fix this?
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i know the problem it needs both internet and gps to actually refresh the current weather on your current location.. so make sure to open the settings to enable location acces in the settings on the phone
Vintot13 said:
i know the problem it needs both internet and gps to actually refresh the current weather on your current location.. so make sure to open the settings to enable location acces in the settings on the phone
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I don't think the widget needs GPS to refresh. My location settings has all location access enabled besides GPS (which I don't get indoors anyway). After all, it refreshes when I click the widget and open up the information (weekly temperatures etc)
bomberb17 said:
I don't think the widget needs GPS to refresh. My location settings has all location access enabled besides GPS (which I don't get indoors anyway). After all, it refreshes when I click the widget and open up the information (weekly temperatures etc)
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no it needs it.. it seems the new widegt mod of accuweather needs both wifi and gps.. i face the same problem but when i turn on gps and wifi it worked like a charm..
Can someone else confirm that it actually needs GPS? It doesn't make sense to me. The widget was working fine in gb. I think that i removed a system service or something that the widget needs..
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My gps is always on, but I did notice the widget didn't properly auto-update on MF1.
Am on MG2 now tho and it's working fine it updates hourly for me, and manually updating in between will not reset this counter.
Just to make sure tho, i've turned off gps...
And that has no influence on the updating process either
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My gps is always on, but I did notice the widget didn't properly auto-update on MF1.
Am on MG2 now tho and it's working fine it updates hourly for me, and manually updating in between will not reset this counter.
Just to make sure tho, i've turned off gps...
And that has no influence on the updating process either
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Can anyone else confirm that it is not working on MF1?
This widget is crappy anyway. Why you don't use different one there are plenty of weather widgets in google play?
I just like it. ..
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I use it cause i think it's ace!
I noticed it stopped auto-updating for me earlier, but then i've deleted app data of weather widget, weather widget main and weather demon and it started working again.
Only downside to this tho is that u need to re-add all your saved locations (well and settings, but that's not much work )
I'm using a Tab S 8.4 LTE, having an issue using Google Maps. When Location is in power saving mode, trying to find my location in Google Maps just gives me a dialog box asking me to turn on GPS to improve location accuracy, and after I decline the blue location button simply refuses to work. Google Maps is the only app that has this problem, every single other app that needs to find location has no problem using Power Saving Mode location service to find my location, whether it's a weather app like Accuweather or a map app like Citymapper, or even the browser version of Google Maps. When I choose to turn on GPS it actually does find my location immediately, while the device is still searching for a GPS signal. I already tried clearing cache and data and reinstalling Maps. My Tab S is my only device that is having this problem. Does anyone else get this?
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and after I decline the blue location button simply refuses to work.
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The thing is pal by declining the only thing it has to work off then is your WiFi and mobile data which takes longer.
For anybody who disagrees with the wifi not being usable as a location aid well it surprised me to find that when google sent those vans around taking those lovely detailed photos of your street thats not all they were after. They also logged every wireless network they went past with their location at the time so that if needed you only had to have wifi switched on and an internet connection to give a pretty accurate reading of your location...
And theyve gone even further...they dont need to send vans out to keep this list updated.., they actually use your phones ...so you become a network information gathering tool which sends back to google any wifi networks you find combined with the strengh and location you were in
Sneaky blighters
So in answer to your question either turn on gps or turn on your wifi and mobile data...or just wifi if its connected to the net.
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The thing is pal by declining the only thing it has to work off then is your WiFi and mobile data which takes longer. .
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It doesn't just take longer, it just doesn't work at all in any way, even with both WiFi and mobile data turned on. Instantly works when I activate GPS, even if I'm indoors and the device still hasn't find a GPS signal to refine the location.
Micrologos said:
It doesn't just take longer, it just doesn't work at all in any way, even with both WiFi and mobile data turned on. Instantly works when I activate GPS, even if I'm indoors and the device still hasn't find a GPS signal to refine the location.
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out of curiosity does this web based version work for you
http://ctrlq.org/maps/where/
it just picked up my laptops location nicely, i know its not google maps app but it will work in the same scenarios you could need it in.
pdolton2000 said:
out of curiosity does this web based version work for you
http://ctrlq.org/maps/where/
it just picked up my laptops location nicely, i know its not google maps app but it will work in the same scenarios you could need it in.
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Like I said everything that isn't google maps app, including the browser Google Maps, has no problems. In desperation I tried a factory reset too but that didn't work. I just wondered if its only me who is having this issue.
Micrologos said:
Like I said everything that isn't google maps app, including the browser Google Maps, has no problems. In desperation I tried a factory reset too but that didn't work. I just wondered if its only me who is having this issue.
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Okay ive just understood what you meant, so i changed the location to power saving mode and went back to google maps, i indeed got the esame message about turning on gps, i selected no thanks and do not ask me again...but it wasnt working, i then went back to l9cation settings and clicked
"Google location Reporting" and it had set "location reporting " for the device to off, i turned it to on and viola location working off mobile data and wifi.
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Okay ive just understood what you meant, so i changed the location to power saving mode and went back to google maps, i indeed got the esame message about turning on gps, i selected no thanks and do not ask me again...but it wasnt working, i then went back to l9cation settings and clicked
"Google location Reporting" and it had set "location reporting " for the device to off, i turned it to on and viola location working off mobile data and wifi.
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Thanks for the help. Sadly turning location history on didn't solve it for me for whatever reason but its good to know it's not just my device being faulty somehow.
Micrologos said:
Thanks for the help. Sadly turning location history on didn't solve it for me for whatever reason but its good to know it's not just my device being faulty somehow.
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I didnt turn location history to on just location reporting...sorry to hear its now workin m8
Same exact problem here on an TabS 8,4 LTE...
Hope a future update will fix this bug