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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esheesle:
I have issues getting push notifications. If I set the refresh to 15 minutes it will grab them during the refresh (about as good as weatherbug or any other app i guess) but have never had them pushed to me. The developer doesn't seem to want to debug the issue even though I've offered to do whatever he needs for testing.

All in all, still love the app. Nicest widgets by far and fairly accurate. Also alerts are the full bulletin unlike many of the other apps.

I had been worrying a bit that this app could eventually become a dead end though. I'm assuming Bellshare hosts their own servers which the app talks to and eventually if they aren't having many purchases, it won't make sense to continue to host the servers financially. Weatherbug, weather channel, accuweather all have other business that funds them and keeps it profitable to host servers. Any thoughts on this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jesamyn:
Actually, they use Weather Underground for weather data, which is why there are so many stations to choose from. They probably do have to pay for hosting for the themes, and of course their own site. I would think that would give them the same footing as Beautiful Widgets, HD Widgets, and similar apps.

That being said, I'm a little disappointed to hear that I'm not the only person who has trouble getting assistance with an issue. (I've emailed as well before posting here. I actually posted in hopes that someone else had run into my issue and had suggestions.) Non-responsive devs are the kiss of death if word gets out. Of course, that is simply my opinion, for what it's worth.

I would hate to see BeWeather abandoned or for it to disappear. The Pro version is everything I want in a weather app. I have multiple locations, nice graphics, access to radar if I want, and great widget options. I just wish the alerts would show up again.

~ sent from my Etch-a-Sketch using Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pauley:
I never get push notifications either, only whenever I have it set to refresh or actually open the app does any pop-up.

I still don't understand why the Amazon Appstore version is always behind the Google Play Store version. A few days for Amazon to review it I understand, it's not because of that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esheesle:
I'm aware their data comes from weather underground, but does the app go directly to wunderground or does it grab that data via beweather's servers? My concern is if we are relying on their servers and they don't seem to care about bugs, etc., then the money isn't necessarily good enough to continue to maintain those servers which could render this app useless in a hurry.

As for push notifications, I guess there is really no other app that pushes either (weatherbug is the biggest out there and it is pull only to) but if they advertise it, I want it to work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jesamyn:
And suddenly I have alerts again, complete with notification. Hopefully they'll continue to work. :)

~ sent from my Etch-a-Sketch using Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] track909:
??? Question ???

Is it possible to translate the forecasts text in other languages?

.....Perhaps with an external file as UCCW?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rudi_s:
works well for me!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] renome:
It works nicely, although it sometimes has problems with connecting to the Internet.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] eda80:
Wsri goog.thanks

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jujuburi:
I've been using this app for almost six months now, but for last two or three days this app is giving me tremendous wakelock problems. Phone doesn't go to deep sleep due to this! Battery is drained badly too. Don't know what's going on! Only restarting device seems okay, then again when I click on the BeWeather widget or go in the application, it keeps running again. Such a good app this was, but now uninstalling seems the only option!

Oh, I don't have any auto update options enabled, everything is set to refresh manually.

Look at the screenshots, it's been running for 6+ hours, damn!

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] NotATreoFan:
Did you try clearing data and reconfiguring the app? I've seen issues in the past where the /data parts get corrupt and go hog wild on battery.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jaydee77ca:
I have this exact issue also. BeWeather has kept a wakelock since I ran it today. About 1 hour. It's preventing the phone from sleeping and really draining the battery (~10% per hour!). I also have auto updates turned off.

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UPDATE:

I tried this and set custom references in BetterBatteryStats and GSam Battery Monitor and they both showed a wakelock held by BeWeather for all 15 minutes since the custom reference.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jujuburi:
Yeah, the first thing I tried was clearing cache and data. Then I even uninstalled it and re-installed. Didn't fix a thing. What I did was to install the 'paid' version! and everything was/is fine. Maybe the infamous advertisements in the free app was the culprit, not maybe I think, I am more or less sure about it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pfluger:
From the screenshots it looks like the wakelocks are happening within the C2DM lib, which is actually not our own code. It is Android's library for supporting push notifications.

We are looking into it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cwhitney24:
Gee Thanks for your helpful opinion there.

This app has been, and still is, a great weather app. It's not the apps fault that your rom is messing it up.

Sent from the Bacon Pope's Galaxy Note 2
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] esheesle:
Noticed an issue that when running beweather after a few days of running it will hang on one location (requires reboot to fix). Besides just affecting itself, it also affects my tasker profile which is net location based (locks to same location as beweather). Disabling beweather's auto update and using weatherbug instead seemed to solve the issue, but I prefer beweather (did rule out tasker as the issue though at least). Anyone else notice this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dewed:
I've had the same issue for several weeks now. Works great right after a reboot but then some time after that the widget gets stuck on "Locating." If I manually update, it will refresh but only for the displayed location, regardless of what the actual location is.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BretonGirl:
Maybe they aren't crooked but they are unprofessional, rude and have absolutely no respect for the people who PAID for their app. I am having problems with the widget freezing several times a day. I contacted them through their website and was ignored. Emailed them and was ignored. That is beyond unacceptable. You don't take people's money and then give them the finger, and that's exactly what Bellshare is doing by refusing to acknowledge problems and respond to complaints. I have used their app since it was first released as BerryWeather for BlackBerry and they were just as horrible then. I don't understand why they treat their paying customers like garbage. They also apparently can't be bothered to keep the app updated, the last update was 4 months ago. I am going back to HD Widgets for my weather. I've had enough.

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Doesn't work for me either.

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Still freezes.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cswroe:
I use the 4x1 current weather with clock exclusively, never had an issue.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Augie754:
I'm having the same issues. I think this is by far the best weather app, but I had to uninstall it on my rooted Galaxy S3 and my wife's stock S3
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pauley:
Well said my friend! The Bellshare devs didn't bother to respond to me ever either, blatantly ignored me, and just closed every report I ever opened without a reason, help, or explanation. BeWeather was a complete waste of money. I hope in the near future we can report shady devs that take our money and ignore us. I'm back to WeatherBug Elite which has been flawless & actually has working notifications.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cwhitney24:
I talk to one of the bellshare guys frequently. And mine has been working fine all along. Not sure what you all are doing wrong.

Sent from the Bacon Pope's Galaxy Note 2
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] EvilMonster:
problem

I can't donwnload iconset in settings... Its 0/100 for about 20 secs, then dialog dissapearing. Then i can set only default icons. How can i solve this problem? Or can i download it from my pc and put files in folder...

P.S. Sry for my Eng.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BretonGirl:
Well I tried to contact Bellshare by opening another support ticket on their website. 2 weeks later I get useless automated response telling me to go read the Knowledge Base. If the answer to my issue was in their stupid Knowledge Base I wouldn't have contacted them. Their Knowledge Base consists of 4 questions about BeWeather, all of them about the BLACKBERRY version. They do not have one single entry for the Android version.I am fed up with their garbage. They should be kicked out the Play Store for their reprehensible treatment of their PAYING customers. They are unprofessional and rude!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dhanasekar89:
Whether its Finds Tsunami and Earth Quakes?

Whether this application Finds Tsunami and Earth Quakes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BretonGirl:
No.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] QBall45:
I would greatly appreciate it if you would add the ability to select text color via hex code. I'm particular about color match. The slider feature works for many I'm sure. However, it is impossible to get even close to matching colors unless you can enter the proper hex # code for the color you want.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hikki6139:
It loos really fancy !
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bso44:
Anyone know why this partial wakelock is happening? I've got my BeWeather widget set to update every 6 hours only.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mattplo:
Does this have Real Feel anywhere?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mmegalodon:
Yes, it has a "real feel / feels like" temp reading.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SaxmanUSMC:
So I am trying to figure out why I can no longer see the Beautiful Widgets iconsets in BeWeather. I am on a Verizon Galaxy Nexus, which is unlocked and running Sourcery v 5.0 ROM (JB 4.2.2).

I usually was just able to download them directly through BeWeather, but this is not working now as I cannot even find them. I installed BW and downloaded the icon sets I wanted but BeWeather still will not see them. I am assuming now that it has something to do with the file structure change with Android 4.2, as I have run out of other ideas.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i11wi11:
Resolved the widget freezing issue for me:

I had the widget freezing problem that many on here were encountering recently. I'm on the latest version currently 1.3.16 and running JB 4.1.1. I've had problems with the widget stopping is auto-update after awhile as well as wreaking havoc on my other widgets too, as none of them seemed to update as well. The fix for me right now (seemingly) was to enable the auto-update under app settings and change the update frequency to 15 or 30 mins. I have gone through three days with no issue thus far. Seems good to me because it was stopping up twice a day before. I haven't had issues with the wakelock and battery drain.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] uT_xMaYbEe:
~

Looks nice im going to try it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] NUTEffee:
downloading ... thankyou
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Guntur_ROXX:
cool interface :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] CHi77:
this is the best weather app money can buy. I found this gem back when I was still using bberry phones and it shined even then. on android, its second to none. get it you wont regret it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] robbyr:
No Beautiful Widgets skins?

Running the latest versions of both this and Beautiful Widgets, I should be able to find my downloaded skins but I'm having no luck there. What am I missing?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dejan_mik:
But the weather provider in this app has let me down so many times now. I wish man could choose weather provider from a few, just like with hd widgets.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jpatnorman77:
A few issues with BeWeather Pro for Android. Hello I just installed Beweather pro on an At&t Samsung GS4.

Issue #1 is widget freezing using both Holo Launcher HD and Apex. Even after a factory reset. I am forcing my self to use the Stock launcher a while and see if it freezes there.

Issue #2. Excessive wakelocks . See screenshot.

Please advise if any setting can reduce this. Edit... set to update hourly and on screen on. Why is it waking cpu 350 times in 3 hours?

Also I wish the clock time font had a choice for the font size.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rush02112:
I am also having this issue. Filed a support ticket on Bellshare's site, no response after 1 week so far. Beginning to regret this app purchase.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jpatnorman77:
What launcher are you using? I went back to the Stock Touchwiz launcher and it was not freezing. Also on Nova launcher it hadn't frozen yet with it running overnight.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rush02112:
Stock launcher, Galaxy S4
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] QBall45:
Patience young grasshoppers. The devs in fact read every comment and work hard to fix issues. This shouldn't be an app purchase that is ever regretted. They'll fix it for the s4.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] countryfolk07:
I love this app. I've had it since my blackberry curve. No complaints overall, but it's not getting any updates or improvements. Weather.com and weather bug have been updating rigorously with many new improvements. One improvement I would like to see is more accurate alerts, like the Scripps app Storm Shield. The other apps are doing similar things. Thanks for listening. You have made a great app, just needs some minor updates
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rush02112:
Well after still not receiving any updates from my open ticket I uninstalled the app and re-installed. This time I set the auto update to 1 hour instead of 15 minutes and I have not had the problem of the widget not updating anymore. Work-around yes, working as intended? not so much.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mmegalodon:
The support for this app has been sort of hit or miss in the past, and the fact it hasn't been updated since February is not exactly encouraging. Still my preferred weather app and I don't have any major issues (no freezing widget on my end) so I have nothing to really complain about, but I can see why others would be hesitant to throw full support behind it.. :rolleyes:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jpatnorman77:
I bought the pro version but have uninstalled it. Weather wasn't updating.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ipred:
BeWeather is fantastic and the only problem i have is that it takes too long to find a city ( but in the end it finds it so it's not a big problem ).I also have set it to update manually so the automatic update is not a problem for me as i don't use it anyway.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] index41:
I also have the widget freezing issue on my GS4. Also had this issue previously on my Galaxy Nexus.

Once the widget freezes, all other widgets also become unresponsive. I've narrowed it down, by process of elimination, to the beWeather widget.

I have a different weather widget running now for 3 days, without a single freeze-up. With BeWeather, my widgets would freeze 3-4 times per day.

The only resolution was to either force-close "TouchWiz Home" or to reboot. Wish this was fixed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
Support is hit or miss? More miss than hit, IMO.

I've been with them since I got my first BlackBerry Bold 9000. BeBuzz, BeWeather, I think I had all their apps at one point. I was on their "beta" team. Rarely were beta issues dealt with, so its no surprise that production issues aren't dealt with, either.

Funny thing is that the fair majority of their BlackBerry development was tested with emulators. No matter how good an emulator is, it never replaces real hardware/software. I wonder if they do the same on Android...

Bellshare is a very secretive bunch. An update will come out then months of silence. Same thing with the Android app. They took away their forums. They killed the public beta program. What's to hide???

So my issue ATM is that the widgets aren't available for lockscreens on my chosen 4.3 ROM. I'm sure an update to the app is required. So here I am, resurrecting my HD Widgets purchase so I can have weather on my PIN secured lockscreen. At least I can select Wunderground as my data source so the information is a close match...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jazenf:
Love this app first off :)Not too sure what's going on but I'm not able to download the animation, you there another link where I can get this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scutworker:
On my old HTC Desire the clock used to fill the whole of the frame above the weather report on a 4 x widget. Now on my new HTC One the time appears very small with a huge gap below it. Increasing the font size just makes ALL the text bigger so it looks absurd.

I've attached a screen shot. Does anybody know how to enlarge the time so it fills the widget better?

Cheers.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] countryfolk07:
I've been a long time backer of this app, but I must say that I'm losing support. The file system structure of Android has changed dramatically and this app really needs to reflect that change. I can't use my beautiful widgets themes anymore. Anyone still supporting this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scottjb:
Not that I can tell, it hasn't been updated in a while. The forums only had BBs apps last time I checked--they removed the Android forum. Too bad as it is a great app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] araujo3rd:
awesome app!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
Agreed. Even when they were actively developing, one could hardly tell if they were supporting it LOL

It does still run but yes, they're behind on things and there are surely outstanding bugs. And maybe some nice-to-haves, like being able to backup your entire configuration (TiBu doesn't work right) so you don't have to re-enter all your custom radars and maybe setting up custom radars that apply to ALL your locations. But hell, we've been asking for that since the BlackBerry-only days!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ridethisbike:
So those of you that have switched away from this, what app did you go to?

BeWeather does the job for me but autoupdate on the widget is hit or miss. Often times I find myself having to manually update it. And even then, sometimes I have to go into the app itself to get everything to update properly. Not a big deal, but it's one of those "things"...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cswroe:
Moved to Beautiful Widgets, has worked well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scottjb:
I switched to Google Now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kufu:
Does anyone know how to apply the Beautiful Widgets theme to BeWeather?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] countryfolk07:
It doesn't seem possible with the file structure of 4.2 ROMS, which is one of my gripes. I always used those themes with this.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
Ah, in typical Bellshare fashion, they disappear for months then suddenly pop up with? A free version for BlackBerry 10.

Never mind the bugs in the apps that people paid for!

SMH...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] nycebo:
Same issue as you. When the auto-update goes down on the widget, it takes down all of my other widgets with it. Only FC the launcher resolves the problem on my stock Nexus 4. At this point, I've installed Yahoo Weather, Weatherbug Elite and Accuweather. We'll see which one holds up best.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
I'm using HD Widgets with Wunderground as the provider and BeWeather as the weather and forecast app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] alexander jack:
your app is great

your app seems great!

I have some suggestions for you to market it to make it more popular.

1 Email newsletter. Reading email has become a major activity people do on their smartphones, you can collect users on your website and keep them updated with the news of your app with email newsletters

2 Make an explainer video for your app. Making an explainer video is a very cost and effective app marketing strategy, because it constantly increase the conversion rate of your app. 70% of people prefer to purchase or download app after watched a video, they are also more satisfied than those who didn't. Because a video could give the user an effective preview of the app, to help they understand an app before they actually own it. There are many great app explainer video service providers such as Appgovideo.com, Appegges.com and etc.

3 App review sites. Some app review sites like Appegges.com and 148apps.com have millions of visitors per month. A lot of people like to choose apps from those sites, and if your app was reviewed by those sites, it may gain more chances to be noticed and downloaded.

Regards

Alexander
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] casper312:
Hi. I have Auto Update disabled yet I am still getting wakelocks. Why is that? Any way to prevent this? I have a rooted Nexus 5 w/ 4.4.2. Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Katey91:
I switched to HD Widgets, has been much more reliable updating and I now prefer the interface.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
I've been using HD Widgets with BeWeather but recently switched to HD Widgets with my already paid for copy of Accuweather. Deleted BeWeather. Bellshare can you-know-what themselves, Pfluger is laughing all the way to his bank...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hytran:
And you can do the same.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chaoscodes:
Are we still going to update this app any more? Please add Accuweather as an alternative forecast provider as it works more accurate for most Asian regions.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] recDNA:
I still love beweather but it stopped updating all my android phones. Getting a non xml error. Any way to fix it? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. No dice.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Duir-:
LOL. Did you look at the last post date? Or any of the posts? Last post was over 9 months ago and if you look at that and some of the posts you can see this app has long since been abandoned.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] recDNA:
Fortunately for me it just started working again for no apparent reason so somebody fixed something. Did bellshare go out of business?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Duir-:
Glad it's working again. No idea what happened to the developer, think they just stopped replying here.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] recDNA:
I emailed bellshare so maybe he fixed it. Anyway I'm glad to have it back and thanks for replying!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Febix:
Good

Good app.