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Weather forecast widget

Does anyone know where I can find a widget that is basically identical to the Weather Forecast one in the ManUP456's REVOlution theme,but gets its data from somewhere more reliable.
I love the way that it looks. It fits my home screen perfectly.
The problem is with the data itself. For instance, the app says that yr.no says that the temperature is going to be 80° here tomorrow, but the Weather Channel forecasts a temperature of 96° (definitely more like it).
I'm not sure if it's a problem with incorrect data, an inaccurate conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit, or what.
There really isn't much point in a weather forecast if it's horribly inaccurate, though.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks, guys.

tamas413 said:
Does anyone know where I can find a widget that is basically identical to the Weather Forecast one in the ManUP456's REVOlution theme,but gets its data from somewhere more reliable.
I love the way that it looks. It fits my home screen perfectly.
The problem is with the data itself. For instance, the app says that yr.no says that the temperature is going to be 80° here tomorrow, but the Weather Channel forecasts a temperature of 96° (definitely more like it).
I'm not sure if it's a problem with incorrect data, an inaccurate conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit, or what.
There really isn't much point in a weather forecast if it's horribly inaccurate, though.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks, guys.
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Sure its exactly the name of your thread title. Search the market for "Weather Forecast Widget" its much much more reliable and looks good as well.

That is the widget in Manup's theme. I also use it but find the data to be less than accurate.

I downloaded the "Weather Forecast Widget" by Francois DESLANDES from the market.
I like it so far. It doesn't have the 7 day forecast like yr.no's, but the four day forecast shows up instead.
Here is my quick review:
Widget sizes include the following:
1x1
2x1 full day
2x1
2x2
4x1
4x2 *
4x3 *
4x4 *
* includes forecast and calendar
The weather can be aggregated from Google or NOAA (much more accurate than yr.no).
With the paid version, you can choose from 17 different icon sets and 27 backgrounds.
I tend to prefer the HTC icon set (someone derived the HTC weather icons from the weather app so they could be used here).
The widget sizes that includes the calendar has current conditions or today's forecast (your choice) at the top and the forecast for the next two days below it with each day's events listed below its respective day. (A tap will take you to the calendar app of your choosing)
This is a great widget set for my purposes. It is incredibly customizable.
If you're looking around for a good weather widget, try the free app. If you're like me and need more visual customization, go for the paid app key.​
Here is the AppBrain Link for all interested: http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.koxx.forecast_weather.v2
Thanks, guys.

Agreed. Great looking widget, but completely inaccurate data. When I finally got it to acknowledge that I'm in Tampa and not Jacksonville, temps were still way off.

funcrusher said:
Agreed. Great looking widget, but completely inaccurate data. When I finally got it to acknowledge that I'm in Tampa and not Jacksonville, temps were still way off.
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That is odd. In my case, the location is spot on and the temperatures mirror the NOAA website perfectly.
In lieu of funcrusher's experience, results may vary.
I'd still recommend it though.

My bad, I was referring to the one in manup's theme.
Trying Weather Forecast Widget now.

funcrusher said:
My bad, I was referring to the one in manup's theme.
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Haha. I probably should have figured that out. Oh well, a full day of classes has me a little slow at this point.

its nice. too bad you cant skin the free version. some Buff icons would be nice.

Without a doubt the best is Snowstorm. For some reason it's very hard to find in the market as it doesn't appear under "weather widgets" search, but it works fantastically. Also the first reply for "Weather Forecast Widget" is decent advice. It's great as well.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/se.f1nally.snowstorm

Outvit said:
Without a doubt the best is Snowstorm. For some reason it's very hard to find in the market as it doesn't appear under "weather widgets" search, but it works fantastically. Also the first reply for "Weather Forecast Widget" is decent advice. It's great as well.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/se.f1nally.snowstorm
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i like snow storm too, its what i use. i just dont like how it dont show current temp, and the updating kinda sucks....at least for me.

Outvit said:
Without a doubt the best is Snowstorm. For some reason it's very hard to find in the market as it doesn't appear under "weather widgets" search, but it works fantastically. Also the first reply for "Weather Forecast Widget" is decent advice. It's great as well.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/se.f1nally.snowstorm
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Snowstorm seems useful, but I tend to like how weather widgets displays both the high and low for each day. I haven't spent much time with it, so I'm not exactly sure if there is a way to do what I'm talking about.
I do like the forecast screen on snowstorm much more than weather widgets, but there are trade offs.

[UPDATE 26.04.2011] CHT widget B&L_Group Weather Widget v.5 Final

CHT widget B&L_Group Weather Widget v.5 Final​
Description: A new weather widget. The first version is only shows the weather for 5 days. Supports 2 languages English and Russian. Weather server, as in classical Weather tab-Acuweather (and others will not). Was taken as the basis for the widget script TitaniumWeather Titanium, with a complete reworking and optimization for Manila. When you change the city in the clock settings, automatically will be changed to the nearest minute weather data for the relevant city already, and you can also manually update by clicking on the widget itself and wait 3 to 15 seconds (depends on the speed channel and the response time of the server). To save all the traffic updates are possible only if there is a ready connection and connect to the Internet, cable, Wi-Fi, GPRS. Ie if you want to update the weather, you first need to install handles any of the options for Internet connection, and only then update the weather. This is done to prevent spontaneous eating traffic.
There is an opportunity to consolidate.
Attention! The widget only works with a specified cities, with a location it did not work. All matters related to this, I'll ignore it.
In the 2 version adds:
1. Conclusion obschy information
2. Wind speed and direction
3. Probability of Precipitation
4. Sunrise and sunset
5. 4 different maps widget
- Full and abbreviated with the temperature in Celsius
- Full and abbreviated with the temperature in Fahrenheit
In the version 3 is added:
1. Extended forecast up to 9 days
2. Phases of the Moon (varies depending on the chosen day, together with additional information)
3. 8 different maps widget
- 9 days with temperatures in Celsius
- 9 days with temperatures in Fahrenheit
- 5 days with temperatures in Celsius
- 5 days with temperatures in Fahrenheit
- 9 days with temperatures in ° C More
- 9 days with temperatures in Fahrenheit More
- 5 days with temperatures in ° C More
- 5 days with temperatures in Fahrenheit More
In the version 4 is added:
1. Fixed display of weather icons
2. Added program to install the update time widget from 1 minute to 1440 minutes (1 day)
In the version 4.1 is added:
1. Fixed updating a given time
2. Fixed manual update
In the version 4.2 is added:
1. Eating disabled Internet traffic
In the version 5 Final is added:
1. Completely changed the algorithm updates the time
2. Added a configuration file to change the color of the text widget
Short press on the weather icon opens the detailed information on the selected day (automatically switches to the information today after 5 seconds.) Long press of the weather updates when connected to the Internet.
Author: B & L_Group (MoonNah)
Skins for the Weather widget:
1. ShowacoSkin (After installation restart Manila or SoftReset)
2. dunc001 Light Grey Weather Widget Icons

I've been waiting for something like this 8D
Thanks ^-^
modding it right now! <33
thanks again ^^

Awesome!
I knew it wouldn't be too long.
Nice job, looking forward to the updates.

i updated weather but nothing @[email protected]"

MrBeOTP2 said:
i updated weather but nothing @[email protected]"
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Some cities and locations are not picked up by the server being used.
Try setting a city close to you, in the clock settings.
Tap home clock and set a city.
Then refresh the widget.
More city detections, which would require another server and the option to display F or C would be awesome too.
But very nice job.

1* so cool xD
Waiting 4 next release xDDD

Genius again Moonah! Look forward to some nice skins for this one!

santod040 said:
Some cities and locations are not picked up by the server being used.
Try setting a city close to you, in the clock settings.
Tap home clock and set a city.
Then refresh the widget.
More city detections, which would require another server and the option to display F or C would be awesome too.
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Similarly, I forgot to write that the city must be added manually to the location of the weather is not selected. The choice of temperature in Fahrenheit (F) or Celsius (C) will be added in next version, though the script now and it may, but not used yet. So do not rush me, and quietly waiting for.

MoonNah said:
Similarly, I forgot to write that the city must be added manually to the location of the weather is not selected. The choice of temperature in Fahrenheit (F) or Celsius (C) will be added in next version, though the script now and it may, but not used yet. So do not rush me, and quietly waiting for.
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Yes, I saw it in there.
Looking forward to it and nobody is rushing anyone.
In your time MoonNah.
I was hoping for a similar widget, without the use of mortscript, but so far this one seems not to be such a battery eater, due to the update method you have implemented.
So cheers for that.
I think I know what being rushed and bugged for an ETA is like and I am not here for that.

I want to make a few widgets of my tabs GPS for cookies

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I want to make a few widgets of my tabs GPS for cookies
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Sounds great!
Always happy to see anything new from you.
I will be patiently looking forward to more widgets from you MoonNah.

thanks a lot MoonNah it works perfect in my Leo
I also like a lot the widget has its own set of weather icons so i can combine with others icons for the home weather
Please keep doing more ...

Amazing stuff

Great work !!!!
just like everybody else i was waiting for something like this to show up...
it's very nice even from the first version...
thanx...and keep it up!!!

Moonah Weather Widget
Lovely work. Donation on its way (5UG887032M4944004). Can't wait for skins. One Problem though...... I think I need an ipad size screen to fit in all the beautiful widgets everyone is making
Keep up the great work. Much appreciated

MrBeOTP2 said:
i updated weather but nothing @[email protected]"
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ME TOO~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wow, nice one! This is really great but one question. How do I get rid of the "frigid" and other word "icons" for weather? Just want the animations used from sense. Anyone?

Light grey weather icon set
Been waiting for someone to produce a weather widget so here is my little thank you:
Install the widget cab from the first post, then soft reset, install this cab and reset again. Any problems let me know. Enjoy

DEAR GOD, I cant keep my screen the same for one Bloody Hours Thanks to BLOODY GENIUS LIKE YOU
WHAT AN AMAZING WIDGET

Hello
Great Widget
Is the String
"wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/forecastfox/weather_data.asp?location="&location&"&metric="&metric)"
in TitaniumWeatherEng.mscr correct?

Basic weather widget help..

Can anyone suggest a weather widget, or even know of one, that is JUST the picture/graphic of the weather? I'm going minimal these days with my homescreens and need something to match. Seems every widget has a clock or forecast for the next couple days, etc. I simply want, if its sunny, a sun. If its raining, rain drops etc.. I've seen similiar ones for the moon phases etc, but can't seem to find anything for weather..
Any help? Thanks folks..
Sent @ 04:20

Well am not sure this is rom related but if you going into the widget selector and scroll down to weather there are 3 of them in there with 2 small ones.
You don't say if you even bothered to look at the phones selection of widgets.

These are from beautiful widgets. You can turn off the background so all you get is the weather. It's in the market if you want it.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side.

Thank you ^
Going to check it out in a few. Wonder if I can edit that to remove the text(temp, high/low) somehow. Is it simply removing a line of script in the file does anyone know?
Sent @ 04:20

BW has an lwp that displays just the weather.
Sent from my time waster.

Weather bug has a nice small widget.

As I said with the stock weather widget you get several small ones. This is the smallest on that is available without having to buy anything.

simi clock has a minimal weather widget too.

Lock screen location (AccuWeather.com) is wrong

When I turn my phone on, the lock screen default weather location is wrong and it uses AccuWeather.com you can see.
But, when I unlock the phone and go into my weather widget, it is fine. I use HD Widgets and set it to use WeatherBug.
How can I correct the lock screen weather to report my proper location?

I don't believe there is a way to adjust the location on the lockscreen weather. I have the same issue and so I stopped using the Touchwiz weather widget. It kept telling me I was in the "poor part of town" and well, that just wasn't going to work for a snob like me.
Either AccuWeather has incorrect info or your GPS isn't locking in quick enough for when the app checks for location. I suspect it may be the second, as from my experience, sometimes it would be spot on but most of the time wrong. Once I started using widgets that don't use AccuWeather, I noticed I hadn't had any problems though.

bbeelzebub said:
I don't believe there is a way to adjust the location on the lockscreen weather. I have the same issue and so I stopped using the Touchwiz weather widget. It kept telling me I was in the "poor part of town" and well, that just wasn't going to work for a snob like me.
Either AccuWeather has incorrect info or your GPS isn't locking in quick enough for when the app checks for location. I suspect it may be the second, as from my experience, sometimes it would be spot on but most of the time wrong. Once I started using widgets that don't use AccuWeather, I noticed I hadn't had any problems though.
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I couldn't find a way, so I wonder if there is a ro0t method? Maybe to tell the system to NOT use AccuWeather.com (I have had issues with them in the past in other widgets).
I don't run GPS unless needed. HD widgets finds me fine without GPS but this lock screen default weather app cannot.

I have 2 GS3's both rooted running cleanrom 2.1. One has the correct weather on the lock screen the other does not. I'm thinking more of a hardware problem due to these phones being set up the same.
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mikec86 said:
I have 2 GS3's both rooted running cleanrom 2.1. One has the correct weather on the lock screen the other does not. I'm thinking more of a hardware problem due to these phones being set up the same.
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not sure how hardware could interfere with weather info. Especially when I have no other issues so likely a hardware issue would manifest in some other area - something bigger then this 1 thing.
I am sure root could fix this if you could alter the file used to run that lock screen weather and tell it to use WeatherBug. Just not sure what file that is.

Did you try going to setting/security/lock screen and clicking on weather? Mine was defaulted to never update location so I set it to every hour
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Yes, mine has always been set to 1 hour. The issue is not it updating weather, the issue is it saying I am not where I am at. It is about 40 miles off in a totally different town.

Lock-N-Load said:
Yes, mine has always been set to 1 hour. The issue is not it updating weather, the issue is it saying I am not where I am at. It is about 40 miles off in a totally different town.
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Out of curiousity, when you open Maps, does it give you the correct location?
On my phone, while in the house, it always puts me about three blocks away and then about two - four seconds later, gets me spot on. I assumed it was that delay that was affecting the Touchwiz weather widgets. The few times the stock weather features got my location right I happened to be in different rooms of my house or outside. The SG3 GPS seems to have some issues indoors.
I have noticed that every other weather widget I use displays the correct city right away for me. I switched to using FancyWidget Pro on my homescreen today and I noticed it uses Accuweather and was still correct, but that uses geolocation instead of GPS. I've also had no issues with One More Clock Widget or Simi Clock.
Oddly, aWeather and the stock weather widget and the lockscreen are the ones that give me false locations.
I haven't tried it yet, but I read something where some people were having luck clearning the cache on maps and the weather widget then making sure "verizon location services" isn't checked and it was correcting some location issues. Might be worth a shot.

All I know is I set up mine and the wife's phones the exact same way from a full wipe and hers always gets the weather location wrong for some reason. That's why I believe some hardware might be sub par. I'm at a loss as with this.
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mikec86 said:
All I know is I set up mine and the wife's phones the exact same way from a full wipe and hers always gets the weather location wrong for some reason. That's why I believe some hardware might be sub par. I'm at a loss as with this.
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I have a similiar thing going on with my Galaxy Tab 10.1. I've done a hard reset back to stock and it will be fine and always have the same city one time, then if I do a hard reset again at another time, it won't get the right city.
I think their software needs some fine tuning.

bbeelzebub said:
Out of curiousity, when you open Maps, does it give you the correct location?
On my phone, while in the house, it always puts me about three blocks away and then about two - four seconds later, gets me spot on. I assumed it was that delay that was affecting the Touchwiz weather widgets. The few times the stock weather features got my location right I happened to be in different rooms of my house or outside. The SG3 GPS seems to have some issues indoors.
I have noticed that every other weather widget I use displays the correct city right away for me. I switched to using FancyWidget Pro on my homescreen today and I noticed it uses Accuweather and was still correct, but that uses geolocation instead of GPS. I've also had no issues with One More Clock Widget or Simi Clock.
Oddly, aWeather and the stock weather widget and the lockscreen are the ones that give me false locations.
I haven't tried it yet, but I read something where some people were having luck clearning the cache on maps and the weather widget then making sure "verizon location services" isn't checked and it was correcting some location issues. Might be worth a shot.
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Maps is perfect for me.
Right now I'm in a different town & the lock screen once again shows me 1 town off. Close but wrong.
HD Widgets... perfect

anyone know which system file controls the use of AccuWeather.com as the lock screen weather company of choice?
anyone?

Lock-N-Load said:
anyone know which system file controls the use of AccuWeather.com as the lock screen weather company of choice?
anyone?
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I too would like to know this, once we know this and a few other pieces of information there might be a chance we could tinker and change the lockscreen weather to use weatherbug or something similar. I bought the 25¢ HD Widgets app today just because it uses weatherbug. And that's the only app that will pull up a weather monitor in my town, aside from WeatherChannel and the local news app, both of which are terrible.

Maddening GPS issues!!
Having similar problem here - but not limited to lockscreen weather. I use the Simi clock+weather widget on my homescreen and though I live in Atlanta it shows me as being in Creedmoor, NC (which I gather is near Raleigh). Also, Foursquare shows me being in Creedmoor on its map, but the check-in locations are in Atlanta and show accurate distances from where I am. Maps works fine and shows my location correctly (more or less). Very frustrating problem. Is it hardware related or software? This all started when I was not having any luck getting a GPS lock and tried various fixes. The lock is there now but the location on some apps is way off.

Just purchased HD widgets, I'll have to check this out.

Guys, those that are having lockscreen weather issues, do you use the default weather widget on your homescreen? The one with clock and weather. I found that if I don't use the weather widget on the home screen then the lockscreen does not update and shows inaccurate info. You have to use it for the lockscreen to work.
I discovered this when I was using beautiful widgets and the lockscreen stopped updating. They both use accuweather but for some reason the widget needs to be active.
Hope this helps some!

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Guys, those that are having lockscreen weather issues, do you use the default weather widget on your homescreen? The one with clock and weather. I found that if I don't use the weather widget on the home screen then the lockscreen does not update and shows inaccurate info. You have to use it for the lockscreen to work.
I discovered this when I was using beautiful widgets and the lockscreen stopped updating. They both use accuweather but for some reason the widget needs to be active.
Hope this helps some!
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On my homescreen I use HD widgets. I have zero intentions of using the stock weather/clock widget just to make the lockscreen weather/location correct. Amazing what we can do to tweak the OS, and yet this cannot be tweaked in a file.
accuweather is the culprit as when I use that in HD widgets it screw up my location, use weatherbug and it is perfect.
EDIT: wait.. I see no "default" system installed weather widget... my only weather widgets are my after-market HD and Beautiful widgets, no such "default weather widget"

HD Widgets gets the correct location for me. The default one from TouchWiz is off by a good distance.

Samsung.Galaxy.S3 said:
HD Widgets gets the correct location for me. The default one from TouchWiz is off by a good distance.
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Agreed BUT we are not talking about widgets, we are talking about the fact the lock screen weather is off and it is off as it uses accuweather and you don't seem to have any choice in the matter to pick a different service for the lock screen weather.

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On my homescreen I use HD widgets. I have zero intentions of using the stock weather/clock widget just to make the lockscreen weather/location correct. Amazing what we can do to tweak the OS, and yet this cannot be tweaked in a file.
accuweather is the culprit as when I use that in HD widgets it screw up my location, use weatherbug and it is perfect.
EDIT: wait.. I see no "default" system installed weather widget... my only weather widgets are my after-market HD and Beautiful widgets, no such "default weather widget"
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I meant the default clock/weather widget. I don't like it cause if the grass and sky. Doesn't match with my theme.

Simple Temperature Widget...

So does anyone have a simple temperature widget? I had been using one of the Moto clock widgets with the outside temperature in the widget but have switched to a new clock widget that doesn't have the feature. While it's not the end of the world it is something that I might like to have. I've looked at a few and they're all big and/or combined with clock widgets which don't go with my theme. I'm really looking for a simple widget that all it shows is the temperature and then when tapped could take you to the actual weather app that it's attached to... I've found a couple that'll put it on the notification bar and when you pull down on the shade, but I wasn't terribly impressed. Any suggestions?