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[Android Apps and Games] n0j0e:
I think there are 2 bugs.

When i put a custom weather.ctxt in the UltimateCustomClockWidget folder it doesn't work.

New Weekbar > second font > opacity is the default value 255. When try to change it it goes to max 100% (255 is wrong) and then there is a opacity of 50 I think but value is 100.

v2.9.9

Sorry for bad English! ;)

* Send with much love & Android. * ( HTC One )
[Android Apps and Games] seco10:
If you want to choose a custom weather.ctxt you don't have to use the default file explorer. Instead of this you should use something like root-explorer (works for me) or ES explorer i.e.

How to use the ctxt-file, look three pages back: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45771919&postcount=2266
[Android Apps and Games] n0j0e:
I'm using Solid Explorer and when the weather.ctxt located in an other directory it works.

* Send with much love & Android. * ( HTC One )
[Android Apps and Games] wilfred888:
Hi, does anyone know how to fix the wakelock issues I've been getting from UCCW? specifically from alarmmanager.
[Android Apps and Games] brontolo999:
Battery drain

Hi all,

maybe any of us knows that UCCW had a huge battery drain (about 4% on my S3) but I realized also the following bad behavior.

I have two launchers: the first one uses some UCCW widgets whilst the second one does not use any uccw widget.

What I realized is that even if I've been using only the second launcher for some days (and for some charging cycles) the battery usage still shows 4% of battery drain due to UCCW!!

Why???!?

Why does UCCW drain my battery even if not actually used?
[Android Apps and Games] sbs8331:
I'm having this as well. I have several skins that I change frequently to keep things fresh, but the recent malfunction of the hotspot is causing me to use other widgets for the time being.

I was wondering if it was related to my rooted Galaxy SIII I747 running a 4.3 rom (Slimbean). Wasn't sure if it was the rom version or a bug in the app. What Android version are you running?
[Android Apps and Games] TheBeardedMann:
Remap any widget or app on your homescreen

I don't know if it's been mentioned before, I tried searching and couldn't find my idea, but you can remap any app or widget on your homescreen with UCCW.

Example:

I have the Fancy Widgets 4x1 four day weather widget on the home screen. But when I click it, it goes to Google Weather. I personally like The Weather Channel app. So I created a UCCW widget to remap the click action. I created a blank/transparent 4x1 widget and the hotspot links to The Weather Channel app and named it "TWC Remap." I added the Fancy Widgets 4x1 widget on my homescreen and left a 4x1 area below it. I then added the 4x1 UCCW "TWC Remap" widget below it. Now here's the bummer for some people. My launcher supports overlapping widgets, your launcher might not. Might be time to change your launcher. I resized the TWC Remap widget to over lap Fancy Widgets widget only. Meaning I resized the top of the TWC Remap to match the top of the Fancy Widgets and also resized the bottom of the TWC Remap to match the bottom of the Fancy Widgets. So now the 4x1 UCCW TWC Remap widget is on top of the Fancy Widgets widget. If I click on the Fancy Widgets widget, it will take me to The Weather Channel app.

You can do this for anything on the homescreen. A fun thing to do is to do a full screen blank/transparent UCCW widget with a hotspot that links to something random like www.disney.com on your friend's phone. So every time they press an app/widget on their home screen, it pops up www.disney.com or something along those lines.
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
The fact my widgets went south when I plugged in my USB got too much to live with,. so I edited the XML file /data/data/in.vineetsirohi.customwidget/shared_prefs/in.vineetsirohi.customwidget_preferences.xml to move and point the fonts and images to a location on an ext4 partition I have my sd card which was created for apps2sd, that does not get unmounted when I transfer filess using the USB. That worked great, the first time. I have since re-flashed a new ROM, and I can't get it to work properly,

Is there a "correct way" to get fonts to work from a custom location other than the /sdcard/fonts?

Actually, I just manually fixed a problem I had with an image, and noted that if the image was too deep in a directory structure, I could not browse to select it :confused: is this a known limitation? maybe this is why my manual fix does not work for the fonts?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi. Just a newbie question: Alla the uccw skins i download from market have the description of weather in English. Is there any way to have it in Greek? Perhaps a file i can translate? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] :
No-one? Is it possible or not?
[Android Apps and Games] jaydubbs:
Here's a direct link to the Greek UCCW strings.xml file https://crowdin.net/project/ultimate-custom-widget-uccw/el. Don't know where you place this but it's definitely been done already. I found it simply by following the link given on the Play store description of the app.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Thanks, although haven't find how to download from there or where to put it.. But I'll search it..
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
I I seem to remember a Google Plus discussion involving creating a custom ctxt weather file.
[Android Apps and Games] :
It is really disapointing something crusial like this is not in the faq of uccw..
[Android Apps and Games] MarcusBremen:
put the .ctxt file in the "uccwOutput" folder on your device.

did the trick...

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Thanks, I'll try that.
[Android Apps and Games] bbbfalcs:
Am I gathering correctly that the bottom line with UCCW is that weather is unreliable and not full functioning?

I created a great looking widget with hotspots for updating but the "location" text NEVER updates/changes.. and the temps do not update regardless of what interval I choose.

I read through a great deal of this thread and searched elsewhere on the net and I don't seem to find this addressed specifically.

Thanks for any help!
[Android Apps and Games] MarcusBremen:
Hello, UCCW crashes when I use OpenWeatherMap as the provider.

Anyone have similar experiences?

Thx Guys

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[Android Apps and Games] emerals stream:
neat!
[Android Apps and Games] suchevent:
same here.

EDIT: seems to be working again.
[Android Apps and Games] MarcusBremen:
Everything is workin again with OPM and a 4 Days Forecast

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[Android Apps and Games] FSXv13:
Seems that graphics don't show up when used with 4.4/kit kat.
[Android Apps and Games] bagarwa:
One of my skin app's user also mailed me saying the following -

Clearing data and reinstalling the uccw app and the skin app apparently didn't help. Anyone else having this problem? Any workaround / solution?
[Android Apps and Games] pooley:):
Problem here too. got some users reporting the weather icon and some graphic assets not displayed. Since the beginning the assets folders is bugging us. If we could bypass this f@#%* folder and put our graphic stuff elsewhere it will solve the none showing issue and this new issue, which are imo related to the assets folder.

Sent from my toilets
[Android Apps and Games] xdacinq:
Nexus 7 (2013) and Android 4.4 (Kitkat): SDCard missing

Hi,

-- please ignore, i disabled sdcard access in XPrivacy.

>i try to open uzip files in UCCW, but i only get the message "sdcard is missing" (Original german, "SD Karte >nicht vorhanden!").

>Is there a trick to convince UCCW to use the build in sdcard? If i try a USB Stick via OTG cable i get the same >result.

greetings

cinq
[Android Apps and Games] Pumeluk2:
Hello.

for me UCCW crashes if you use pictures for hours and minutes on Android Kitkat. Anyone else with this problem?
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
[MENTION=3864819]Pumeluk2[/MENTION]

Sounds like it does not work correctly with KitKat :confused:. I use the same feature under JB and everything is ok. The last update is a long time ago, so it isn't any wonder the app doesn't really support KitKat ;).

I hope Vin will come back one day and fix it. It would be very a real pity if this should be the end of the development of Uccw :(.
[Android Apps and Games] Pumeluk2:
I've switched from Android 4.3 to KitKat and back few times on my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7, after the OTA-Update crashed on both devices. And on both devices this feature works on 4.3 and crashes on 4.4. From my point of view it does not work with KitKat.

Me too, I don't like Zooper ;)
[Android Apps and Games] astuermer:
Hello

I've installed this app together with some skins from the Play Store - mostly Metro styled themes.

Sadly ALL widgets result in white boxes.

I don't know if it's app or skin related, but the skins are not all from the same developer. So it seems app related to me.

I am on Nexus 7 2013 with KitKat and using Apex Launcher (already tried Nova, but same results).

Any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
You might try keeping hotspots off while you are creating the widgets. Only turn hotspots on when you are completely finished with setting up your screen, and, always turn them off before changing anything.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android Apps and Games] Riceburner:
Anyone else having an issue when a widget on a homescreen refuses to update for hours?

Also the hotspots don't seem to work, even though hotspots are locked.(I just get a small blue square flash at the top left of the widget area).
[Android Apps and Games] sbs8331:
You are not alone per the posts quoted below. I'm unable to use UCCW until/unless this is resolved. Too bad, as I like the app.
[Android Apps and Games] ElricE:
The definition of "irony":

Finding the solution for a problem one has been searching for for weeks... within minutes of posting the question :rolleyes:

I did try this myself previously but had no success... must have simply missed a comma by mistake. Thanks so much :highfive:

---------- Post added at 09:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:07 AM ----------

No problems this end. I do know there were changes to Android and/or Play Store which has caused no little havoc to UCCW widgets installed from Play. The usual work around has been to back-up in Titanium or Rom Toolbox, uninstall then restore.

Have been using on CarbonRom nightlies (4.3.1) without any hotspot or refresh issues... would still like to know if there is a method of speeding up load times at boot, but that may simply be a matter of the old S2 hitting its limits....
[Android Apps and Games] xal33x:
The weather icons don't seem to be working on kitkat for me. Does anyone know how to get them working?
[Android Apps and Games] aeppacher:
Unfortunately loading of images for kitkat seems to be broken. Its a shame, really would like to use it
[Android Apps and Games] Pumeluk2:
You will see the image after you choose a picture. So it's not working correct, but it is possible to deal with it.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
No problem here. What exactly is happening?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] Quiksilver78:
So far for me, the weather stays as Farenheit and not Celsius. Also location seems to be borked. I'm on CM11 on a Nexus 7 2013.

Also, as a side note/quesiton, how does one text to be aligned in the centre of the background. Not talking about the text itself but the position of the object within the widget. Any tips? :D
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Set the text object's alignment to "center", and position it at the numerical point one-half the width of the background. Also, if you want it exact, use a monospace font. I use DroidSansMono.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android Apps and Games] TOMs12:
Good idea, thanks. i love UCCW
[Android Apps and Games] aeppacher:
Not if you paid for ones that don't give you access to the images
[Android Apps and Games] rocketwiz:
Yes, the hotspot works fine the first time it's pressed and then shrinks to a small section (on the top left corner) after that. Looks like something broke in the latest update.
[Android Apps and Games] Sir-Lancelot:
I have the hotspot issues as well. I cleared and completely remade them but after some minutes they shrink to small area in the upper left corner rendering the widgets unusable.

Oh well, back to 2.8.7 for me.

//Lance
[Android Apps and Games] s2dh:
Same here, please fix this...
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION]

An update is available with version number 2.9.11 - some hotspot things.

2.9.10 fixed problems with KitKat.
[Android Apps and Games] s2dh:
Where can I get this?
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
[MENTION=4166152]s2dh[/MENTION]

Available at Google PlayStore ;). But it's now version 2.9.12 that's available. This fixed again some hotspot issues.
[Android Apps and Games] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Hotspot issues are easily fixable.

1. just disable hotspot mode.

2. then just open and close all of your widgets.

3. enable hotspot mode again and there u go hotspots are back to where they are supposed to be :D
[Android Apps and Games] sbs8331:
Even with new version, hotspots stop working after screen lock or reboot, whether I'm running Slimbean 4.3 or SlimKat 4.4. Too bad. I still can't use this.
[Android Apps and Games] METHOD1911:
Can someone help me. I'm trying to set the app drawer through hotspots to the three dots at the bottom. I'm just lost in what app do I use to open the app drawer. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] METHOD1911:
Forgot to ask. Does anyone know what screen setting I would use to get rid of the gap to the right side of the widgets. I'm using Nova Launcher screen set at 4 by 4. Any help is greatly appreciated.

One method1911
[Android Apps and Games] Ed V:
Set margins to None in Nova.

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[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Hotspot to App Drawer:

EDIT OBJECTS > HOTSPOTS > HOTSPOT # > HOTSPOT > SHORTCUT > NOVA LAUNCHER > APP DRAWER
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
An update with number 2.9.15. is available at the PlayStore. Again some things around hotspots.
[Android Apps and Games] sbs8331:
Well, I think the most recent version may have eliminated this problem. I've been running my widget for almost 24 hours, and the hotspots are still working. Thanks for the resolution!
[Android Apps and Games] ElricE:
Manually changing location

Has anyone found a way yet to change location for weather. I'm trying to test out additional weather conditions so I really need to be able to manually set location to different parts of the world... nothing seems to work, even when I go into system setting and prevent apps from accessing location information...

I can see this was an issue going back to early 2013 but it seems this has not been fixed
[Android Apps and Games] bland.life:
Anyone knows what the new permission to use my accounts is for?
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
Update to version 2.9.19. is available in the PlayStore. Unnessesary permissions deleted and an apk bug removed.
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
Version 2.9.21. is now available in PlayStore ;).
[Android Apps and Games] ElricE:
Great to see the suggestion of opening up the toggle option (beyond the pre-provided widget) already half implemented.... now if it can be implemented so that one can hook into via homescreen shortcuts > activities it would be perfect :)
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipTD:
Great idea.
[Android Apps and Games] vibecatalin:
I've reinstalled this after a long period of time and I see that the MAIN bug (in my case) is the battery drain (checked with Wakelock Detectpr and Battery Mix). Is there a way to fix this battery drain? I only have two widgets, one for date and time and one to check my missed calls and display battery. From what I've read I have to keep it as simple as I can. But, still there's a real fix for the battery drain?

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] M@rs:
since 2.9.22 i got fc´s the whole time.

never had this before.

anyway to get 2.9.21?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Slymobi:
Go to app settings and check "older versions " ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] M@rs:
Oh nice. Thanks found the old Version

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
Version 2.9.23 is available. Some bugs were removed.
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
Version 2.9.24 is now available. A bug with the custom text removed.
[Android Apps and Games] otterbvrn:
Are there a lot of users still using uccw? I thought they all move on zooper widget...
[Android Apps and Games] Xardas:
I'm still using it.. And also zooper yes.. But in my lockscreen I have an uccw skin

~ Sent from a Galaxy far far away ® [HHead]
[Android Apps and Games] 10tacleBoy:
[MENTION=4583496]otterbvrn[/MENTION]

Nobody can really answer this question to you :p. You can only see a trend. Well, indeed the greatest part of the people (involved with theming) l know, choose Zooper. I'm the last who's still using uccw at the moment :(. I've also tried Zooper, but it was not mine. So it seems to me that it is trendy to use Zooper at the moment. Well I use Uccw, cause it's the better app in my opinion :thumbup:. But you should not make your decision dependent on others, instead of make your own. Both apps have a free version, so you can test them and find the best for yourself ;).
[Android Apps and Games] jaydubbs:
Same for me. Tried Zooper but it wasn't for me, so I see no reason to leave.?

Sent from my ViperOne
[Android Apps and Games] Slymobi:
Even though I was disowned from uccw ;) I'm still here always. :)

Tried zooper once and didn't really get the hang of it.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] seco10:
Don't worry, my friend, you're not the last uccw-user, I'm a hardcore-only-uccw-user too :highfive: btw: what is zooper? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Xardas:
A similar app.. Check it out in the Playstore :thumbup:

~ Sent from a Galaxy far far away ® [HHead]
[Android Apps and Games] otterbvrn:
yeah till now I'm still using uccw. it's not easy to move on zooper widget. I said that because uccw widgets that posted here are not as much as couple months ago. so i think almost designers move on zooper
[Android Apps and Games] seco10:
Yeah, I know what it is, my question was a kidding kind of irony, as you know :D
[Android Apps and Games] Xardas:
Ehm sorry yeah ahah:D

~ Sent from a Galaxy far far away ® [HHead]
[Android Apps and Games] TheKorbenDallas:
Consider this: I want to have the next alarm tine displayed in my widget, prefixed by the "alarm clock" symbol. How do I achieve that?

The first idea the comes to mind is to use the "Prefix" field in "Next alarm" element and insert the "alarm clock" character there. "Alarm clock" character has code 0x23F0 in Unicode. Let's assume the glyph is present in my font. So, how do I enter a specific Unicode character in UCCW (or in Android in general)? Is there a way to do it?

If that's not the right approach, then what is? What is the proper way to prefix the next alarm field with an alarm clock symbol?
[Android Apps and Games] Slymobi:
Just add an image element and select a desired alarm clock picture and place it next to the next alarm element.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Apps and Games] TheKorbenDallas:
That's one way to do it. (Alternatively, one can use Static Text element with character 'n' from 'Android-Dev-Icons-2' font) However some problems with this approach include:

1) The image will behave as an independent element. It will not be treated as a whole with the Next Alarm element for alignment purposes. For example, if I request 'Center' alignment for Next Alarm element and the text length inside Next Alarm changes, the Alarm Clock icon might get misaligned.

Granted, the length of the text inside Next Alarm does not change much, so it might work for this purpose. But in general case it is not a viable solution.

2) If there is no active alarm, then Next Alarm is not displayed at all. In such cases I want the alarm clock icon to disappear as well. Surprisingly, the Prefix and Suffix fields of Next Alarm are always displayed unconditionally, which means that this problem cannot be solved by using Prefix.

So, how what do I do in this case? How do I make some element to be displayed conditionally, depending on the state of some other element. Does UCCW offer such conditional programming capabilities?
[Android Apps and Games] ElricE:
OK, I'm going throw some muddy water on this list in the hopes someone can provided a little clarity.

Given the fact that the manual location option in UCCW seems long broken (thus the inability to check for possible conditions as presented elsewhere around the globe), and the strange and frustrating absence of a confirmed complete list for either Yahoo or OpenWeatherMap (I've had multiple conditions present which are not officially listed by either) I installed the Yahoo weather app to try and dig out any conditions possibly missed... and noticed that Yahoo seems to hook into Weather Underground's API

Weather Underground have quite a few conditions not listed in the spreadsheet so I'm now wondering if these need to be incorporated as well... refer to link below to see what I mean
[Android Apps and Games] seco10:
What's the problem. I made this list a few months ago, only to show proper German translations of the 231 weather conditions I found out. The native English speakers don`t need such a list imao.

And I detected for the last uccw-versions, that either the location and the weather-conditions are working well.
[Android Apps and Games] ElricE:
Don't get me wrong, the base list is HUGELY appreciated and a fantastic start. From an English speaking point of view, it was the layout of one of my own widgets that started me hunting down as many verifiable conditions as possible, as I need to be able to space each and every one of them to fit the widget layout like in the image below... starting to think it may be more effort than it was ever worth

From a translation point thought (German or otherwise) it means that the initial list might need quite a few additions. I can already confirm the following.... Chance of Showers, Chance or Rain (which makes me think all the other "Chance of..." options listed on Weather Underground are likely to be used), Snow Flurries got changed by Yahoo weather to Flurries, but I think OpenWeatherMap still uses snow flurries. Snow Grains has also been encountered. This is the frustration when none of the weather providers are all that helpful in providing a confirmed list... it becomes a guessing game to a fair degree

The list though becomes handy for more than just translations though, but also is invaluable for aligning weather icons correctly, as well as seeing where new ones need to be crafted.... and your list has been an amazing starting point btw. UCCW does well aligning icons to a certain extent, but falls short in others as the fallback consists of only maybe five or six icons... for example all Shower & Snow Shower variants need icons present otherwise it falls back to the icons for Snow and Rain.... same with all Drizzle variants. UCCW doesn't know what to make of Ice forecasts/conditions.

One other thing in relation to your list.... "ID" should now be updated to "SKINS_LOADER_ID" for compatibility... Also, I noticed for some conditions you have two entries with different translations ("teilweise bewölkt" & "teils klar" for Partly Cloudy) but not sure if UCCW can make use of that anymore... it's now using the "name" property as the identifier, meaning it seems to lack the ability to use multiple entries with the same identifier. I'm guessing this may have been a change introduced in an update at some point.

As to the last, I've tested changing location both on the S2 (i9100) running CarbonRom, Galaxy Mega (rooted, stock ROM) and the TF700T running ChromiX... location changes yet weather feedback doesn't (current or forecasted), even when switching between weather providers or changing then rebooting. From what I can find out it is a documented bug that hasn't yet been resolved so I know I'm not the only one...