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[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
I did of course work out how to change the weather on the home screen to one I had listed manually, until a fix can be found to the 'My Weather' problem.

Interestingly, yesterday evening I visited friends about 20 miles away in Burton on Trent, and the 'My Weather' screen updated to Burton on Trent weather, and continued updating itself whilst I was there (Snow and Rain). Upon returning home it stayed on that, and again refuses to update, giving the same error message. Travelling to Stafford today, despite being able to have Stafford weather set manually and updating ok (its about 8 miles away so is currently my default weather location), the 'My Weather' service will not work there either!

Even more interesting is that the 'My Weather' data shown has now changed from rain and snow as it was (correctly) in Burton on Trent last night, to Intermittent Cloud (as the nearest location - Stafford's manually set weather is showing now), although I still get the error message when trying to update it and it stills gives the same last update time as last night as it was in Burton when it was snowing/raining...

I have sent a detailed report to HTC's Customer Service and will post here whatever they respond with... not that hopeful though having used their customer service in the past!
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
Progress...

I'm currently in talks with HTC technical support to try and sort out this issue, and will advise of its outcome when it is resolved or whatever. They are being very helpful so hopefully it will all get sorted soon!

Steve
[HD2 General] bym007:
I have noticed this issue every now and again on my HD2. I am based in London and I have noticed that this issue is not location-centric.

A hardware reset/restart has always solved the problem for me, but it is far from ideal!

HTC update us now!
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
Some progress...

Well, Having tried the factory reset as suggested by HTC (didn't solve it) they have now escalated the problem to HTC HQ in Taiwan, and the technical support here are keeping the case open to keep up correspondence with me whilst its being - hopefully - resolved. From the input I've been able to give them, they do now recognise it as a real issue/problem that needs solving, not just a simple user setting error!

Steve
[HD2 General] bym007:
We are counting on your good effort! Please keep us updated.
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
I most certainly will keep this thread updated! In the mean time, if anyone else has the same problem, plesae supply details here for me to pass on to HTC.

For example, what network your on, location when trying to update, etc.

I'll post back any reports here when I get them.

Steve
[HD2 General] levilad:
HTC HD2 weather MY LOCATION

Hi,

I have exactly the same issue, I live in Dagenham, but my location never updates.

I travelled through East Ham, central London, it always updated. But never at home.
[HD2 General] auximinies:
Having seen it update both my location and the weather flawlessly whilst out and about yet not at home, I've just sat and had a play.

Firstly I deleted My City from the list of locations. Then I deleted Home from Google Maps, disabled and re-enabled My Location on Google Maps. I then updated the weather - and it had the usual cannot connect message.

So, how does it know now that I am at home - and therefore not to work - when I have deleted everything that said this was home AND done a soft reset?

Its a real pity - the weather and location update is not only very useful but is also the kind of eye candy I am using to sell WinMo to sad people still wedded to their iPoo. If only it worked properly!
[HD2 General] antaed:
network: rds-rcs

location: cluj-napoca, romania
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
Thanks all for your feedback, I shall pass this on to the HTC technical guys who I've been talking to who should then pass it on to HTC HQ in Taiwan.
[HD2 General] Stephen Selby:
Do GSM signals bounce off the ionosphere? I sometimes get this GSM transmitter showing as my location that is really several KM away. Could it be that the weather app is working ok but you're getting a ghost location reading? Once it tries to download data from the ghost location, it won't work because the signal's too weak...?

Just a thought...
[HD2 General] cd78:
same prob here. my location updates at home in gloucester, although the signal is really bad here. i work in cheltenham, a few miles away and.it wont update. i have cheltenham as one of my other cities and that updates fine!
[HD2 General] rodbeezy:
I've been running into this issue for about the past 2 weeks or so, but on my Touch Pro (Fuze). The weather seems to update more frequently when I turn Wi-Fi on or have my phone connected via USB

Network: AT&T

Location: Bay Area, CA, USA.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Or it could just be that some transmitters aren't part of the location service network yet...
[HD2 General] gadgetwizard:
I found this 'my location' feature to be more trouble than it's worth.

I downloaded and installed Dutty's disable my location .cab. Now my location is gone.

So now i just add a city close to me and update the weather for that.

I even disabled auto update 'cause i just don't need know the weather that badly.

I update in the morning to get a forecast then i look at the sky around me to get the latest weather.

The auto update and my location features might also be contributing to my blank screen problem posted elsewhere but the jury is still out on that one.
[HD2 General] bellwelder:
I have the same problem. I have written to Htc who informed me that a fix would be coming out soon. That was nearly three weeks ago and i have seen nothing yet!!!!!
[HD2 General] phuong:
Hi!

For my experience: aftert Hard Reset, then I run the Google Map, search my location from Google Map, the Google Map will search and located my location for the PPC. After that, open the weather on today screen, update my location sucessful after tab to enable update my location on the menu.
[HD2 General] Zivsal:
Your Location Weather update = The solution !

I faced the problem as described above. I found that in order to recover it you have to do one of the followings:

1) After soft reset it is usually working and u r updated.

2) If not, first activate the "Quick GPS" and then make the soft reset.

Good luck.

:)
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
Unfortunately I've tried this several times and still it doesn't work, either here in Rugeley or even in Stafford, our County Town, although manual weather always updates and so does Google Maps without GPS switched on, so location services DO work and therefore it has to be the way HTC implement it that fails.

Still awaiting reply from HTC who have contacted HTC in Taiwan.

Steve
[HD2 General] leaskovski:
I have the same problem on my HD2 running the latest ROM. Im on Virgin (uses T-Mob) and was driving back from my mates and used Google Maps. This must have updated my location to Wisely. I have tired switching Google Maps on again to try and get it back to Reading, but to now avail. Its very annoying it showing me weather for a place I have only ever driven by on the M25!!!

Whats the deal with the error message for weather? I comes up occasionally even though it updates the weather?
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
I don't think it is a network specific problem, as this weekend I realised my HD2 was unlocked and thus tried an Orange SIM card in it. It has the same problem here in Rugeley as on Virgin (T-Mobile) thus it must be a location specific issue and simply be the way HTC tries to utilise the Google Maps My Location service which as you notice also, does work. I have updated HTC technical support with this latest test, and await their response (once they get it back from HTC in Taiwan).
[HD2 General] etmnidj1:
Changed frequency updated from every hour to 30 minutes

Hello everybody,

Had the same problem for five days, just changed the update frequency from every hour to thirty minutes and now it's updating again.

Go to the weather tab-> menu -> settings -> change here the update frequency. (I have a dutch rom, so this in translated from dutch to english)

Worked for me, I hope it works for you to.

regards

Etmnidj1
[HD2 General] littleprettyboy:
Same issue...

I'm on Touch Pro, but I've been experiencing similar problems, i thought it was something specific to my GPS device, but it works fine from other applications. It's just the My Location feature that seems to not be getting GPS information, or at least not updating according to it. I was wondering if there were any GPS specific settings for My Location, like telling it what com port to use and such...

At this point I've had it working off and on, and for the life of me can't figure out what was different when it was working. There's just something screwy about this feature.

I've exhausted every angle I could dig up, sure hope somebody figures something out for this.
[HD2 General] sjukmidlands:
I don't believe the My Location feature uses GPS for obtaining its location, it gets it from the masts/cell towers. For example, even with GPS switched off, Google Maps will find an approximate location with no difficulty as long as you have a signal on your phone of course! This is supposed to be how the HTC My Location works - but doesn't do so reliably at all. So it must be just the way HTC implement the use of the My Location feature, which Google Maps uses with no difficulty at all.

Steve
[HD2 General] discodotcom:
Absolutely agree with you, Steve. My Location uses cell towers to get the location; it is a network feature. If the cell doesn't support this, My Location service will not work, and not just for HTC devices. All models of mobiles phones are affected.
[HD2 General] DadyNek:
Weather

Hi,

I have a same problem too...

My Location is not worked, but others value is correct. I discover, that a have this problem with trying wi-fi connection.After this time i have problem with downloading data.

Somewhere i read, that i try change on my default homecsreen in setting wold time- my location to set a neearby city, than it worked.

But, i isn´t resolutin.
[HD2 General] hamaydeh:
i have different peoblem but releated to the weather ,.....

i have two locations and when i go to remove location it give me blank page...

but when i do add location .... the new location just will appear on remove location page but the the two locations which i already have not appear...

i don't know why is that????!!!!!:confused:
[HD2 General] Federer73:
Correct!MyLocation uses Google Maps and it actually locates where your phone is!

If you try to update the weather using WI-FI it won't work,it works only with GPRS through Google Maps.If Google can't locate where you/your phone is,then an update is not possible.

I had a similar problem.First I launched update of MyLocation and it went OK.That was on 25.01.That was the last one as well.According to MyLocation I live in Burgas(Bulgaria),but if I search the network to update the weather(wi-fi,I added a new sity and was given only one option-Bourgas!),it says I live in Bourgas!!!

After that I used Duttys Disable Current Location and Burgas was gone.Some days later I uninstalled the .cab and re-launched MyLocation(Burgas) and the update was fine.I can't explane what exactly happened but both are working so far.The strange thing is,that Burgas can be updated through GPRS only,and Bourgas can be updated through wi-fi:confused:

I agree,that the problem is somewhere in Google or HTC,or they share it somehow.
[HD2 General] nalab1:
i dont think that my location uses google... google normally pinpoints my location really well over gprs... but my location always gives an error when i am in my home town- dunstable (near luton) this fails on both gprs and wifi....
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Not true. I can quite happily update weather over my wifi connection. However My Location can only be calculated by an active connection to the mobile network so that it can get cell tower information.
[HD2 General] J.Hendy:
Bum, didn't realise there was 8 pages here!

Please ignore me,

Whatta idiot...
[HD2 General] Federer73:
Me too.My point was,that the city under MyLocation(Burgas here by default)can only be updated over GPRS.If I use Bourgas,which I added later and used as MyLocation,can be updated over wi-fi.Actually,there wasn't any problem.
[HD2 General] Avinitlarge:
Mine started doing this yesterday. I got Vodafone sure signal yesterday too. Ive just been experimenting

Test One, Wont update when WIFI is on and the Sure signal Box is on

Test Two, Turned my WIFI off in the router, It updated the weather

Test Three, WIFI on and sure signal off, It updated the Weather

The sure signal box give me full signal (HSDPA) at home. Without the box I have very poor signal if any at all.

I dont know if this help diagnose the problem in any way.
[HD2 General] Chrasher:
Here's another strange thing to test out : When I disable G3/HSDPA and only use GPRS there are no problems updating my weather location and my location in Google maps (albeit somewhat slow).

Also with WIFI everythings works OK.

Switch your HD2 to GSM/GPRS under: Settings (Manilla) - Wireless - Phone - Band (scroll down).

All the problems with "my location" began when I installed the official ROM 1.66. Could it be the Radio version?
[HD2 General] Avinitlarge:
When My sure signal box it off I only get GPRS and no 3G or HSDPA. I think it does have something to do with the 3G/HSDPA. Ive notice the weather wont update when ive got 3G/HSDPA but its fine with WIFI and GPRS
[HD2 General] Chrasher:
Since this morning my problems with the weather and Google location went away! Seems it had nothing to do with my HD2 software but a problem with my provider (Vodafone) or the HTC or Google location servers.

Everything is working OK now with G3/HSDPA. :)
[HD2 General] pepitoil:
For me when i had the same problem, found that weather uses gps so use the wuick position app and then start the gps at google maps..then the problem got fixed...
[HD2 General] leaskovski:
Im buggered if I know what the problem is here. I have 2 added locations. Reading and Lahore. I have opened up Google Maps to try and get "My Location" to update, but it just isnt sorting itself out. It has been working in the past, but it just doesnt want to work for Reading. I am sitting here in my house in Reading, getting a lock on to 8 Sats and yet My Location just isnt changing to Reading. Thus, when ever going to the Wethaer tab, it always fails to update because My Location isnt actually set to anywhere.

WTF?! Arhhhh!
[HD2 General] Halle:
Since yesterday evening, "My Location" refuses to update. It have worked perfectly fine since I bought my HD2 a couple od months ago. All other cities updates fine, but not My Location. Also, I do not get any error message, it just stops tying to update after a while. Very strange.. Yes, I have tried soft reset, hard reset..

Gonna call HTC support and yell at them.

Just tried google maps, My Position there does not work either! Sucks.
[HD2 General] hav0c:
Weather not updating on my Tilt2 as well.

Network: KPN

Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
[HD2 General] DirkjeX:
My location is only updating trough wifi?

If i update the weather trough 3G, the standard cities do update but my location does nothing :(

It started tuesday :mad:
[HD2 General] peewee2:
I noticed that my location wasn't updating the last view days. I noticed that the setting that my provider may update the settings was turned on. I turn this off and checked my internet connection settings. In may case everything must by turned off (no proxy or portal). I noticed that there was an entry in the portal (Naam toegangspunt). After removing this and checking that there was no proxy "my location" started working again.
[HD2 General] DirkjeX:
THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TNX!

The entry in the portal was portalmmm.nl. After removing this, everything works again :D
[HD2 General] henk-jan:
Great forum: that this it. thanks!
[HD2 General] Lozeman:
My Location problem

Hello HTC people,

I had the same problem with updating the weather..

This is what I did:

Put the phone on WIFI connection - Soft Reset - Update the weather manually - Now it works again - Turn WIFI off en data connection back on (preferences screen) (in Dutch data verbinding).

Now Update again and ik works ! On my phone (using HI NL)

Hope it works for you...
[HD2 General] polstein:
My mother had the problem on her AT&T Touch Pro 2 - after fighting for a while I threw in the towel & flashed it with a new rom. Worked since then. Now I wonder what her proxy settings were/are.

On my HD2 (TMOUS) My location usually works - when it didn't always work, I manually added my home (Hollywood, FL) to the list of cities. Oddly, It shows my current location as "Hollywood" and Cloudy, while "Hollywood, FL" is Showers ?!?
[HD2 General] Bvv21:
Fixed it! Thx for the suggestion.
[HD2 General] fontijne:
THANKS:):) This solved my problem on the Touch Pro2, which i was experiencing over a week. I removed the same entry portalmmm.nl

Andries
[HD2 General] johnny5rlx:
Hi all.

From the netherlands, network KPN (hi.nl) on my HD2. same problem as described.

i found all the settings that are talked about, no solution for me unfortunately. i had the connection database updated. unchecked the allow provider to change settings, reset the phone.. then no 3g connection could be made at all. i put back the check for allowing settings changes, at least 3g worked again. no weather update still.

i did find the proxy setting via the help screen, it was already empty. so no luck there.

anything i missed?
[HD2 General] digitalhater:
same problem here? did you found a fix for this?
[HD2 General] :
I simply give up with it lol,
[HD2 General] danjohnson19855:
where is this portalmmm.nl ?? sorry im not v.bright anyone can do a step by step plz
[HD2 General] xeebot:
Thanks! That worked great.:)
[HD2 General] whopper:
Well I have tried this and it worked, but do I have to do this everytime I want to update my location weather. I have already confirmed in other posts that my location weather updates only when having wifi on, but I just want it to update without having wifi on and just through 3G.
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
Apologies if this has already been posted (I scanned the thread but didnt notice it).

I had this problem and found something on an o2 forum about it, apparently the weather tab doesnt like it when you are logged in on google maps, as soon as I logged out the weather went back to updating as normal.

Im sure that wont help everyone but it may well be the cause of someones problems.....
[HD2 General] pimspanjers:
A working solution!!!

Hi everyone, THIS WAS MY SOLUTION

I’ve noticed that the solution to this problem was mentioned one page back.

This one works and was very easy!!! Because of the fact that it would be a pity if anyone misses this solution ill post it step by step.

Be careful: I translated it from Dutch to English, so options can be named differently

Here it is :

1.	Go to the Settings Tab

2.	Menu >> More

3.	Connections

4.	Connection settings

5.	Menu and deselect the first option (Activate. autom. Config. )

6.	Go back to step 3 (the connections settings)

7.	Select connections

8.	My proxy setting

9.	Look down to the tab settings and select “Modem”

10.	Edit the selected one..

11.	Click next to access point name..and there is the problem!!! Something like “portalmmm.nl” will be listed DELETE IT AND LEAVE BLANK!!

12.	Click next and then Finish (Select yes for the popup)

13.	Go to the tab “Proxysetting” and be sure that only the first option is selected.

14.	That’s it!!! No reset neded. It should work from now on!!

Please let me know if settings and options are named otherwise, so I can edit my post!!

Many thanks to peewee2 on page 9!!!
[HD2 General] ilijan:
step 11 is a access point name? becouse if i delete it, my internet dont work :D
[HD2 General] pimspanjers:
ilijan

Hi ilijan,

Yes unfortunately for you that's what I mean,, so I think that your provider needs specific access point name.. If I leave my input field blank,, internet still works..

I realy don't know

:confused:
[HD2 General] pimspanjers:
maybe this is worth a try?

Maybe you cold try and search for the by o2 provided value and check if that one matches the listed one. Could try that?! Proxy checkbox is unchecked ?
[HD2 General] daheufster:
did the trick for me as well.

could it be that the entry in the portal is being placed there by using automatic network configuration???

btw, had also problems using pushmail by a exchange server since a week or so, I couldn't update. now this works fine as well.!!!

THANX
[HD2 General] johnny5rlx:
edited out, network problems must have caused a repost
[HD2 General] johnny5rlx:
Tank you Tank you Tank you Tank you

works!

indeed is was in this thread before, but with the language difference i never found it. looking at your described steps i found i was looking in the wrong section in the settings.
[HD2 General] danjohnson19855:
i cant find the option to

5. Menu and deselect the first option (Activate. autom. Config. )

my rom is 6.5.5 does that make a difference?
[HD2 General] pimspanjers:
I’m not sure if it has something to do with the ROM update or with the language difference.

Here are two screenshots for step 4 and 5.

Let me know

Step 4:

Step 5:
[HD2 General] Jarreenzo:
Same Here. Pushmail worked, but was not "connected" anymore. Manual send/receive gave an error but did update.

Also the wheather works now. Thx for solving this (for a lot of us).
[HD2 General] danjohnson19855:
thanks for the screen shots my options where a lil different but i found them can u do a couple more for steps 8.	My proxy setting

9.	Look down to the tab settings and select “Modem
[HD2 General] pimspanjers:
sure

Sure,, no problem,, may take some time because I’m at work..

Could you maybe translate the steps to there original English values.

???
[HD2 General] danjohnson19855:
good man thanks, yeh when i get it all sorted ill post step by step with screenshots
[HD2 General] Jim73:
Hi,

thanks for the effort. I was looking for this for a while. I was just wondering how the portal got there, as it worked properly in the past.

Anyway, THX
[HD2 General] nljuggler:
Thanx for the solution. It was driving me mad.
[HD2 General] lostsoul:
Wow, I was frustrating over this for days!

Pim, je bent DE MAN!

Pim, U DA MAN!
[HD2 General] Awassenaar:
Yeah u saved me aswell, I was going crazy over this!

Had the same problem with my Xperia on manila Rom's. I've noticed that a lot of dutch users have this problem... I am wondering what is causing this problem because a week ago everything was just fine :confused:
[HD2 General] hav0c:
Where can I find this setting?
[HD2 General] hav0c:
Thanks a lot!!

This worked for me :)
[HD2 General] tossero:
Hi ! I have noticed that my phone doesnt show, like it used to, the name of the city I live , instead it displays ` my location ` . Does anyone know why and how to solve that ?

Thanks you , cheers !~
[HD2 General] Profuminif:
hi,

glad i'm not the only local in this area with problems.

live in cheltenham, on Vodafone, won't update at home, but when i have been working away in scotland recently. location worked fine, will find out next week if it works in the leeds area as i will be working in that area.

Simon