Right now my clock (beautiful widgets) is stuck at 8:58, when it's actually 18:36. My agenda widget and calendar widgets won't update if I add tasks, and I can't refresh them. The clock in the taskbar at the top of the screen is correct.
The widgets get stuck like this once or twice a week, and a restart fixes it.
Anybody else had this issue, or knows what the cause may be?
not had this issue or read about anybody else experiencing this.
My gmail widget does this all the time. Keeps showing old unread messages which I actually have read. Apps is fine.
Clock has never got stuck though.
Btw do we have a fix yet for laggy scrolling on android widgets
do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
shadehh said:
do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
^^One possibility
I have had my Poweramp widget fail to do anything from time to time. The task manager must be ending the task required for it to run. Some apps have an option to stop task managers closing them.
shadehh said:
do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I do, yes. Could that be doing me more harm than good? I'll lay off it for a while and see if the problem is less regular.
Disable the WinAmp widget and restart your device, don't kill the tasks for a while.
I think that's the best you can do for test.
wilkomints said:
I do, yes. Could that be doing me more harm than good? I'll lay off it for a while and see if the problem is less regular.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can reproduce this at will on my HOX. I've opened a case with HTC on it too. It *appears* that this is being caused by HTC's super-duper agressive task killing (it's a feature, not a bug), killing off sleeping processes that keeps widgets with live data updated. After a reboot, facebook widget legs me gleefully scroll through posts, beweather can be updated by clicking "update", and the power control widget will change the "light" under the button based on the state of that which the button drives, however after using the phone for awhile, loading/unloading apps and whatnot, the memory falls below the threshold and the in-built task killer goes to town and hangs up a good deal of apps and then the widgets are frozen until the next reboot. I know the interface isn't frozen because any widget with a shortcut (touch and run something) still works, and the facebook widget registers a scroll "touch" by the arrow highlighting, but the data never changes, so it has to be something behind the scenes that went away and shouldn't have.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to a cause, let me know, I'll happily pass on to HTC in my case with them.
Stuck widgets on CM9 for HOX
wilkomints said:
Right now my clock (beautiful widgets) is stuck at 8:58, when it's actually 18:36. My agenda widget and calendar widgets won't update if I add tasks, and I can't refresh them. The clock in the taskbar at the top of the screen is correct.
The widgets get stuck like this once or twice a week, and a restart fixes it.
Anybody else had this issue, or knows what the cause may be?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got the exact same problem, but only on the CM9.1 (which according to the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706001 has been incorrectly tagged as Alpha 8 on the Cyanogenmod download site). The widgets are frozen, but are interactive - if I touch my frozen Beautiful Widget the weather page appears. If I touch the buttons on my frozen Apollo music player widget, it plays/pause/skips music tracks etc but the widget itself doesn't get updated. A restart of the launcher (Settings --> Launcher --> Homescreen, and then exit the Settings app by pressing back back back) fixes the issue... for a while, before the widgets eventually get stuck again. See screenshot (note actual time vs Beautiful Widgets time).
Searched the forums, the CM9 thread and on Google elsewhere but no one else seem to have the same issue. Very puzzling. One guy has a similar issue but it got solved when he switches off "Forced GPU rendering", which didn't work for me. Would appreciate any help!
Cheers,
Kelvin
iCantRememberMyUsername said:
I got the exact same problem, but only on the CM9.1 (which according to the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706001 has been incorrectly tagged as Alpha 8 on the Cyanogenmod download site). The widgets are frozen, but are interactive - if I touch my frozen Beautiful Widget the weather page appears. If I touch the buttons on my frozen Apollo music player widget, it plays/pause/skips music tracks etc but the widget itself doesn't get updated. A restart of the launcher (Settings --> Launcher --> Homescreen, and then exit the Settings app by pressing back back back) fixes the issue... for a while, before the widgets eventually get stuck again. See screenshot (note actual time vs Beautiful Widgets time).
Searched the forums, the CM9 thread and on Google elsewhere but no one else seem to have the same issue. Very puzzling. One guy has a similar issue but it got solved when he switches off "Forced GPU rendering", which didn't work for me. Would appreciate any help!
Cheers,
Kelvin
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
had same prob a while ago, installed ROM Toolbox and under 'performance overview' clicked on auto memory manager/presets/...>mild<... ticked apply on boot and apply, rebooted and bingo no more freezing widgets.
it may be that simple for you (or maybe not) give it a shot why not?.. hehe
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox&hl=en
Thank you! It did help greatly in minimising the problem, but it hasn't stopped it totally. In the last 12 hours since implementing your suggestion, the widgets had frozen once, and I noticed it after I was streaming some videos. I'm guessing the video streaming triggered the "OMG we need more RAM, KILL THE WIDGETS!" response of the OS but other than that the widgets are ticking along happily.
Would be great if there's a more permanent solution to this, but I'm guessing this would require the CM developers looking into it.
Cheers! :good:
Ah. Well, after web browsing (which strangely causes the HTC One X to heat up more than I'd expect it to), the widgets are back to being stuck. I guess the ROM is not quite ready, but being a new user I can't feedback to the development thread on my experience with the ROM.
Perhaps I'll head back to a Sense-based ROM. (The Jellybean ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1763240 is excellent, but MX Player on s/w decoding doesn't have audio, and Beautiful Widgets disappear upon reboot or USB connect...)
Cheers again for your help, beanbean50.
Have same issue with multiple widgets. Anyone close to finding a solution? Or do we have to wait for the next OTA update?
drewsky208 said:
I can reproduce this at will on my HOX. I've opened a case with HTC on it too. It *appears* that this is being caused by HTC's super-duper agressive task killing (it's a feature, not a bug), killing off sleeping processes that keeps widgets with live data updated. After a reboot, facebook widget legs me gleefully scroll through posts, beweather can be updated by clicking "update", and the power control widget will change the "light" under the button based on the state of that which the button drives, however after using the phone for awhile, loading/unloading apps and whatnot, the memory falls below the threshold and the in-built task killer goes to town and hangs up a good deal of apps and then the widgets are frozen until the next reboot. I know the interface isn't frozen because any widget with a shortcut (touch and run something) still works, and the facebook widget registers a scroll "touch" by the arrow highlighting, but the data never changes, so it has to be something behind the scenes that went away and shouldn't have.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to a cause, let me know, I'll happily pass on to HTC in my case with them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using a Motorola Atrix 2(ICS) and have the same issue , it's not just task killer i guess , when you uninstal /freeze some system apps this can happen , and if you're using a custom launcher (nova prime to me) , just restart the launcher and they'll start working again , sometimes you have to restart the launcher twice , you can't do this if you're using a stock launcher obvious
So I enabled the option to show current locations weather conditions from the lock screen, however on the lock screen all it says is:
"Unable to display weather data"
Does anyone else have this problem or know of a workaround? Does anyone have the weather conditions working for their lock screen?
Same here. Note 2 and my sg3. Even on official rom. Help us
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
Hmm mine just did it and I thought it was something with my custom Rom. A couple hours later though and all is fine. . Perhaps it just needs to refresh
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
Been like this ever since I got the phone on Friday. =\ It was like that on the stock ROM and still exists on CleanROM 2.1. I've tried rebooting and everything.... Oh well, I'll just let it sit for a while and see what happens... Hopefully someone can get to the bottom of this soon
same problem here on sg3
I had the same issue on my s2x and what solved it for me was to load the accuweather.com widget onto the homescreen, and update the weather. That got the weather to show up.
I then deleted the widget and the lock screen still shows the weather.
Mine shows up but hadn't updated in days
Hey fellas! I recently flashed a new Sammy ROM and had this problem... Found an easy fix in no time:
Navigate to Settings>Application Manager and clear data for the Weather Daemon and Weather Widget/Weather Widget Main, Force Stop them and then re-add your locations and check again.
Hit Thanks if I helped
Worked!!!!
Ars-Hexis said:
Hey fellas! I recently flashed a new Sammy ROM and had this problem... Found an easy fix in no time:
Navigate to Settings>Application Manager and clear data for the Weather Daemon and Weather Widget/Weather Widget Main, Force Stop them and then re-add your locations and check again.
Hit Thanks if I helped
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thia solved the problem....
I am using CM 10.1 and had a weather before Yahoo Weather from lock screen and now it does not wok. Since couple of days it has stopped working, without any errors. There is an information 'No data' on the screen and it has not getting any updates. This is the same issue on my tablet.
Do you know how to fix it ?
I have already tried another rom and made a full wipe but nothing has been repaired.
Regards
I preassume you mean *cm10*
A few days ago I read somewhere that yahoo weather shut down one of their weather API's which caused some apps dependent on it to stop working. the lockscreen weather isn't the only one affected some more apps can't show weather
omkar9496 said:
I preassume you mean *cm10*
A few days ago I read somewhere that yahoo weather shut down one of their weather API's which caused some apps dependent on it to stop working. the lockscreen weather isn't the only one affected some more apps can't show weather
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I see CM10 is also affected. I tried to send a message to djolivier but still have no respond. I don't understand what the companies want to achieve just starting to charge for weather service or so ?
I read it but I received so many mails from other users that I forgot to reply yours.
However, I think they made it to save money. Google did the same a few months ago...
Gesendet von meinem HTC Wildfire S mit Tapatalk 2
I've seen this question asked a few times before on here but no one seems to ever respond to it. Thought id give it a try. I love zooper but I cant stand the fact that the time on my digital clock always stops. for example I can check the time at 2:30 pm and the clock in my widget says its 9:27 am. Refreshing the widget only helps every once in a while. What causes this time freezing and is there anyway to stop/fix the issue. Thanks!
Siafu357 said:
I've seen this question asked a few times before on here but no one seems to ever respond to it. Thought id give it a try. I love zooper but I cant stand the fact that the time on my digital clock always stops. for example I can check the time at 2:30 pm and the clock in my widget says its 9:27 am. Refreshing the widget only helps every once in a while. What causes this time freezing and is there anyway to stop/fix the issue. Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you use any kind of RAM cleaner or app hibernater (i.e. Greenify)? Those would be my first culprits to look for if background updates of a widget don't work.