I am not sure if anyone else has run into this yet. But I didn't really notice it until yesterday. The clock/weather widget, the city listed which should be based on your physical location (GPS) and I do have all of the location services checked is way, way wrong.
Case in point, I noticed it was showing the weather in St. Johnsville, NY which happened to be about 350 miles from where I was standing at the time. I refreshed the weather about 10 times, indoors and outdoors and no change. It won't find the area I live in despite the fact that my prior Android phones could (heck my iPhone could).
Now when I am at home its still off the mark, but this time by about 20 miles. I did pull the batter and the 4G SIM card (4G LTE come later this year as confirmed in this weeks announcement).
In fact on day 1 of getting the phone it listed two cities NYC and St. Johnsville, and it wouldn't let me delete both. So I think something is off in the GPS on this device or is it me?
One more point, I did a wipe and started over, still the same.
Lol...this was killing me also and I tried everything in the world,until I found out how to do this. First, turn off all of your GPS settings. Next, delete the clock/weather widget off of your home screen. Then, go back into settings and turn all 3 of your GPS settings on(VZ,Stand alone and Google location services). Give it a few minutes to locate you. Finally, click "browse all HTC widgets" to add the clock/weather widget back to your home screen. When the city search screen pops up, click current location and you should have your city back. Hope this helps. It worked for me.
Thanks. I will give that a try. I stopped at the verizon store and the tech there was as I expected clueless. He sd its normal and happens, otherwise all of the Thunderbolts would be defective.
What it seems to me is maybe this falls under the block of "fixes" HTC has to do for Verizon where the location services are not spot on.
My Thunderbolt can be a little weird in this respect as well. I live in CA, but every once in a while I'll unlock my phone and realize that my weather (and worse, my clock, and therefore time zone) are set to, say, Boston. Fortunately, my phone seems to automatically clear these quirks with a reset (a soft reset-- not just a refresh)
Mine gets stuck while traveling a lout and not even that was working earlier. Needed a full reboot to make it change
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RaptorMD said:
I am not sure if anyone else has run into this yet. But I didn't really notice it until yesterday. The clock/weather widget, the city listed which should be based on your physical location (GPS) and I do have all of the location services checked is way, way wrong.
Case in point, I noticed it was showing the weather in St. Johnsville, NY which happened to be about 350 miles from where I was standing at the time. I refreshed the weather about 10 times, indoors and outdoors and no change. It won't find the area I live in despite the fact that my prior Android phones could (heck my iPhone could).
Now when I am at home its still off the mark, but this time by about 20 miles. I did pull the batter and the 4G SIM card (4G LTE come later this year as confirmed in this weeks announcement).
In fact on day 1 of getting the phone it listed two cities NYC and St. Johnsville, and it wouldn't let me delete both. So I think something is off in the GPS on this device or is it me?
One more point, I did a wipe and started over, still the same.
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Yeah i did too had me in oregon im from indiana big diff lol
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When I received my Bolt and activated it, the HTC Sense clock / weather widget had my location listed as Buenos Aires, Argentina. LOL, I'm in Cleveland Ohio! Took a couple of battery pulls and disabling / re-enabling the location services until it finally locked in.
Atleast you guys have a semi working one....mine is blank...doesnt even give me an option for my location in the weather app itself...
johnpwu said:
My Thunderbolt can be a little weird in this respect as well. I live in CA, but every once in a while I'll unlock my phone and realize that my weather (and worse, my clock, and therefore time zone) are set to, say, Boston. Fortunately, my phone seems to automatically clear these quirks with a reset (a soft reset-- not just a refresh)
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It just found a better city that's all .. what's the issue ?
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Well, here is the response from HTC and based on the fact that they know about it, don't tell anyone directly about it really makes you wonder what else they don't disclose.
Dear XXXXXXXX,
I understand your weather and location is not showing the correct information on your Thunderbolt. We have been aware of this issue for a while and have come up with a workaround to resolve the issue. You may follow the steps below:
1. From the Home screen, press Menu and tap Settings.
2. Tap Location
3. Turn off Mobile Location Services
4. Turn on GPS
5. Check Google maps to see if the location is correct.
If this does not work, navigate to the Market and download GPS Test by Chartcross Limited. Use this application to find your GPS location. Google Maps should now display the correct location. Refresh the weather manually, the correct location should now display.
Sure I can do this, but how long will it last, not long at all before you have to do it again, and again, and again. Thanks HTC how about you just remove the weather widget all together.
Well, here is the response from HTC and based on the fact that they know about it, don't tell anyone directly about it really makes you wonder what else they don't disclose.
Dear XXXXXXXX,
I understand your weather and location is not showing the correct information on your Thunderbolt. We have been aware of this issue for a while and have come up with a workaround to resolve the issue. You may follow the steps below:
1. From the Home screen, press Menu and tap Settings.
2. Tap Location
3. Turn off Mobile Location Services
4. Turn on GPS
5. Check Google maps to see if the location is correct.
If this does not work, navigate to the Market and download GPS Test by Chartcross Limited. Use this application to find your GPS location. Google Maps should now display the correct location. Refresh the weather manually, the correct location should now display.
Sure I can do this, but how long will it last, not long at all before you have to do it again, and again, and again. Thanks HTC how about you just remove the weather widget all together.
RaptorMD said:
Well, here is the response from HTC and based on the fact that they know about it, don't tell anyone directly about it really makes you wonder what else they don't disclose.
Dear XXXXXXXX,
I understand your weather and location is not showing the correct information on your Thunderbolt. We have been aware of this issue for a while and have come up with a workaround to resolve the issue. You may follow the steps below:
1. From the Home screen, press Menu and tap Settings.
2. Tap Location
3. Turn off Mobile Location Services
4. Turn on GPS
5. Check Google maps to see if the location is correct.
If this does not work, navigate to the Market and download GPS Test by Chartcross Limited. Use this application to find your GPS location. Google Maps should now display the correct location. Refresh the weather manually, the correct location should now display.
Sure I can do this, but how long will it last, not long at all before you have to do it again, and again, and again. Thanks HTC how about you just remove the weather widget all together.
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if u hate it so much ,, y not remove it urself? not trying to be rude
Mine... when compared to Yahoo weather, seems to show the correct weather for my location but the name of the location always says "Pennsylvania". The first couple of days it was showing the city name and then just stopped out of nowhere.
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Lol...this was killing me also and I tried everything in the world,until I found out how to do this. First, turn off all of your GPS settings. Next, delete the clock/weather widget off of your home screen. Then, go back into settings and turn all 3 of your GPS settings on(VZ,Stand alone and Google location services). Give it a few minutes to locate you. Finally, click "browse all HTC widgets" to add the clock/weather widget back to your home screen. When the city search screen pops up, click current location and you should have your city back. Hope this helps. It worked for me.
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Thank you!!! his drove me nuts yesterday
Went to the VZN store and the tech rep turned on the three location services on my phone. He then pulled my battery. Turned the phone back on and the location was correct.
The phone was saying i was in Ben Lodon, CA. I live in Rochester,NY. It's now been working fine. Although, I do have to keep my GPS on 24/7 but I haven't really noticed any battery life decrease from that.
Download Weatherbug. It's not as pretty as the HTC weather widget, but it works a lot better. Plus it has tons more info, and it's easy to switch between cities.
Wrong location???
I was just LMFAO today!!
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On my lunch break, i noticed that weather widget shows "current location" with temp 27F. So i pressed "update" and it showed that i am in Liliyan, Estonia!!! It is a part of EU, old state of well passed CCCP, or Soviet Union, if you like! Hahaha!! Then, i tried to open Navigation, and it showed me an error message, that "Nav using Google Maps is not yet available in your area".
Now, the only question i would have is; is it my phone, or the network?? After few minutes all went back to normal, and i was back in Chgo.
My experience with this is that it only did it on certain kernels. Try a different one and see if that fixes it like it did for me. Right now I'm running virus rc1b3 and adrenaline's kernel and I don't have any problems.
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i myself went back to stock kernel. i tried a custom kernel and it had issues with GPS.
as for the weather, i use beautiful widgets and it never had problems identifying my location and giving me the correct weather. there is 'fancy widget' which is a free weather widget that's close to being as nice as the htc weather widget and the beautiful widgets.
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i myself went back to stock kernel. i tried a custom kernel and it had issues with GPS.
as for the weather, i use beautiful widgets and it never had problems identifying my location and giving me the correct weather. there is 'fancy widget' which is a free weather widget that's close to being as nice as the htc weather widget and the beautiful widgets.
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Yeah, that Fancy Widget is close to HTC's one, but few months ago "they" had to change the layout of it, because of copyrights issues. Now, the sun/moon/clouds have been put at the upper portion of the widget. Fortunately, i still have a copy of "old" widget, which looks exactly the same as original HTC Sense weather widget. The only difference is that clock does not flip........
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I have stock ROM - 6.5
Device appears to never be able to get "my location".
It always prints "My location" under the clock on home screen, that's all.
On HTC Android of my friend it writes there actual city name where we are.
I tried to play and enabled/disabled everything on location settings page (this page looks very differently on Android) - no luck.
How to get it working ?
Go to World clock (clik on time)
Add city (Yours)
And select it.
Have you tried to update through wifi-connection?
It shows even smallest municipality outside any city.
Even though it´s not in the list.
I had this issue too. The solution is flashing a newer radio.
I had this problem whilst being at home, at work it finds my location fine and updates the weather.
I believe this problem is down to the fact that if you go to the weather tab, and add location... If your location is not in there, it can not find the weather for it!
the same here! they have added just 2 cities in slovakia. a little bit stupid. accuweather have the forecast for us, but... thats a bit strange.
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Go to World clock (clik on time)
Add city (Yours)
And select it.
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It is not "My Location". It is answer to "how to show weather in my city".
I didn't see an explanation how "My Location" is supposed to work, but I assume it should automatically display weather (on Home screen over the clock, and on weather tab) according to actual location of the phone.
philaldred said:
I had this problem whilst being at home, at work it finds my location fine and updates the weather.
I believe this problem is down to the fact that if you go to the weather tab, and add location... If your location is not in there, it can not find the weather for it!
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For me it sometimes work, sometimes doesn't. I occasionally get some small cities shown as my location - with forecast, and they aren't listed in normal "locations" list.
It does seem to have some relation to WiFi connection, although I can't pinpoint the exact scenario. Today, for instance, I got small city located around 2 km along the route to the work as my location, and I don't think phone got wifi ever once (I drove on highways, and shops/gas stations etc are too far away).
SOS App
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Hi guys, finally Google has activeted my google app inventor account..so i started making my first application..that was the first thing that i thought.
Basically what this app do is to send with a text message your GPS position (address from google maps, latitude, longitude and accuracy)
The use is simple. You have to choose a contact (with the search button) and then touch the picture.
Yeah here there are really serious developers..but this application even though simple, useless..got my day! ..btw i'll try to improve it
feedbacks are appreciated...for the app follow the link at the third post
and sorry for my bad english (i think that it's a little bit rusty )
Known issues:
- The app send the last GPS position saved (it does mean that even though you have gps turned off, it will not send the current position but the last saved)
- Someone had a problem within the app (random crashes)
new version 1.2 - ChangeLog:
- Added second function, now it's possible to insert the number in both from contacts and manually
- Bugs fixes
enjoy and let me know if you would some improvement
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7W8C5YE1
This is the version 1.3 ..changelog:
- Layout modified
- Able to send the direct link for Google Maps
- Now the text message include the voices latitude, longitude and accuracy
follow the link below to download the app - link version 1.3:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TM0H2KDH
thats 3 Versions a day, you'll have 2.0 in a few days
downloading now
PhilDsT said:
thats 3 Versions a day, you'll have 2.0 in a few days
downloading now
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xoxo basically the first version was really bad..I just improved it
if you have any idea how and where improve it..tell me and I will be happy to release a newest version LOL (if I will be able to do that ovviously )
My idea of an SOS app was like this:
User can select 5 cellphone numbers. Pressing SOS button sends SMS with help message and position to all of them. App then tracks if one of these numbers call back within a defined period of time.
If no one calls back, phone calls paramedics automatically and enables hands free mode and speaker...
marty1976 said:
My idea of an SOS app was like this:
User can select 5 cellphone numbers. Pressing SOS button sends SMS with help message and position to all of them. App then tracks if one of these numbers call back within a defined period of time.
If no one calls back, phone calls paramedics automatically and enables hands free mode and speaker...
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nice idea thx..i'll try to implement these features
giuvilas said:
nice idea thx..i'll try to implement these features
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Cool, I'll download it once you implement that. I'll help you with the testing if you like...
Other Idea :
Option to use the flashlight for s.o.s singal(there is an sos singal for lights)
Crashes
Hi, application crashes as soon as he presses the SEND SOS
HTC Desire - Official Froyo ROM not ROOT
ps: sorry my bad English, but not writing so often
cool would love to see those features!
also I question this apps GPS ability's, for those of us with femtocell's (Airave for Sprint and the one for Verizon and of course AT&T) that constantly display the wrong location using aGPS... I literally have to wait for actual GPS to get a lock before it will show me in my correct location, otherwise im almost 80miles away...
this isnt a problem limited to your application... imagine calling 911 from home on your cell with an airave and being unable to tell them your address and your phone sends them the address that aGPS is getting...
mates4 said:
Hi, application crashes as soon as he presses the SEND SOS
HTC Desire - Official Froyo ROM not ROOT
ps: sorry my bad English, but not writing so often
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when exactly? did you chose the recipient before pressing the button?
You can send the SOS in both first and second function..but you have to follow this order:
using the first function: Serch by contact-->chose the recipient-->send SOS
using the second function: Insert number where is written "touch to insert number" and then press the button "send to number"
anyway i'm working on it..i think that i will release a new update within next two days
OT: don't worry about your english..we are on the same boat mate
Kane3162 said:
cool would love to see those features!
also I question this apps GPS ability's, for those of us with femtocell's (Airave for Sprint and the one for Verizon and of course AT&T) that constantly display the wrong location using aGPS... I literally have to wait for actual GPS to get a lock before it will show me in my correct location, otherwise im almost 80miles away...
this isnt a problem limited to your application... imagine calling 911 from home on your cell with an airave and being unable to tell them your address and your phone sends them the address that aGPS is getting...
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I know this issue..i'm working on it..practically it sends the LAST position saved (i mean even though you have your gps turned off..the app sends the position anyway..not your current position but the last saved)
In the next release i will include the cell position too (i hope)..do you have any idea how to fix your position issue?
giuvilas said:
when exactly? did you chose the recipient before pressing the button?
You can send the SOS in both first and second function..but you have to follow this order:
using the first function: Serch by contact-->chose the recipient-->send SOS
using the second function: Insert number where is written "touch to insert number" and then press the button "send to number"
anyway i'm working on it..i think that i will release a new update within next two days
OT: don't worry about your english..we are on the same boat mate
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Application crashes in both cases. When you select a number and click the SEND SOS, or when you write and použuji button below it .. But now I found that crashes only when I am running Bluetooth and WiFi
Thats a great idea for an app.
i came across the idea about trying to override the settings somehow, to force the phone to connect to gps to get the most accurate position. most of ppl dont have gps turned on if they dont need it, and when u are in an sos situation, u dont have always the time to turn on gps and all so maybe would be ql if, when u press sos, the app would turn on internal gps and connect to the satelites.
@roomkokos
WOW you have lots of very good ideas (thx so much)..btw remember that i'm still a noob in programmation..BUT i will try to add as much as possible newest features..but i think that this will take lots of time (above reason-->noob )..anyway i think to develop an app like this..it's needed the help from different developer, just because each dev is better than other within the different segment (gps, network, led, activity etc)..so..if some dev is interested to develop this app with me i will be so glad
and this will be more important if this app will be developed at the same time on other platforms..to exploit the effect "utility"
Crash / tipover detection
Something that would be neat would be to have a sudden deceleration or tipover detection that automatically sent a message after a few seconds if not deactivated.
I'm thinking about something for motorcycles. You would mount the phone on the bike like a GPS.
I've been thinking about developing an app like this for a few years [was going to use a wiimote paired via bluetooth for the accelerometer before they started putting them in the phone], just never got around to it.
@ giuvilas
tnx
btw that would be a good idea to have that kind of powerfull app on various/all platforms, however i do think if couple of devs with big knowhow get together to make a team, that would develop this app for couple of platforms, they could get some heavy money from the EU and the US government and possibly some big sponsorships from the phone companies (htc, samsung, nokia, ...) as well as google, for using their gmaps. Its a matter of national security application and would benefit everyone. This app would increase the number of smartphones, the usage of gmaps and reduce the costs for search&rescue missions
If you get a big team of good devs on board, i'm willing to get my hands dirty with the birocracy trying to get the recources first from the EU sources, then if we enounter success, we might get to get some other companies stimulated as sponsors. i'm a law student - a dev in a birocracy area
od_9 said:
Something that would be neat would be to have a sudden deceleration or tipover detection that automatically sent a message after a few seconds if not deactivated.
I'm thinking about something for motorcycles. You would mount the phone on the bike like a GPS.
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I know what u mean, i'm a biker too, and that idea is great, but its best suit for some sort of an airbag device or should be strictly mounted to a bike. Any kind of sudden acceleration detection causing emergency call if not cancled asap, would make a lot of un-needed trips of the emergency units, as many ppl have their phones in bags (women, athlets...), which they throw around, some clumsy ppl trying to catch their phone from falling from a desk, and they will not constantly havein mind that by doing what they have done last 10 years since phones are more available everywhere ... that they are actually calling emergency units.
Imagine the shock on peoples faces looking at a medic, policeman and a firefighter one someones door step, 10 minutes after their young child threw daddies phone from the table because accelerometer would auto call for help thinking its on a bike :/
I think your idea is great but i just dont believe it would fit in a mobile device.
When i was out with my friend and he had crashed because another car was taking over a bicycle in a right turn and my friend almost knee-paded in that left corner from the other side, he had drive from the road in the grass and trees to avoid collision with that car. And it took us around 15-20 minutes to gatther all up to see if we are all ok, to decide how to proceed, to get the bike out of a bush, to check if anything isnt broken, drink watter to prevent going into shock etc. and it took quite some time b4 someone thought of a phone to call other ppl. I dont think, the first idea that would cross your mind, when u fall of a bike and do little to medium plastic damage, would be to cancel the emergency unit call, that your phone had activated when the accelerometer detected the fall. You would get medics to your location in 5-10 minutes after the call and you would be still picking up your bike and tried to get it started. Meanwhile a useless drive of the medics might save someone elses life that really needed medic but he was on the way to help u that u didnt need the help, but u also didnt deactivate the call as you were supposed to.
But would be a great idea it all that would be somehow implemented on a bike itself. Like theres the red button for emergency stop of the engine, it could be an emergency call for medics when u are in such crash under the bike that u cant reach for the phone or anything.
thanks
wow mate, downloading it, thanks
Great App.
It would be even greater if I could preset the contact I wish to send an SMS to. In case of a real emergency I then only need to press one button. Searching for a contact could be a bit troublesome if you are really in need of help.
Hi all,
I have the following problem. When I first used weather widget it automatically detected my location as Ontario without the name of a city. < for those of you who are not familiar with Canada's geography Ontario is actually a province and not a city >
I live in Toronto so I added it manually and set it as default . However the Sense 3.0 weather lock screen still shows Ontario and not Toronto and there is no way to edit it I looked around and didnt find another thread similar to this plz help
Thanks
this ALWAYS happens to me whenever i flash a new rom, i live in toronto, and it always starts as ontario...just do a full sync a few times (make sure weather is checked on) and it should show up no problem...if not, do the 2/3 syncs, reboot and it should be fine
EDIT* worse case scenario if none of that works, open internet, go to google and do a search, and when it asks to save your location, say remember, and then sync weather and it will show
Hey thanks for the reply I tried syncing 2-3 times but still get the same also what do you mean by 2/3 sync? should I sync 2 times and then reboot during 3rd
lol my bad i meant 2-3 (as in two-to-three times)... if its still not working after all that, try clearing the cache for the weather app (go to settings-applications-manage-"all" tab-scroll to the bottom and find weather-clear data)
hopefully that works, and if not try to remove all locations you added in weather and then sync weather again
Nope still the same Ontario (Current) >.<
Could it be because I've turned autosync off?
most definately, turn it on, and if you dont have data, put airplane mode on, then turn on wifi
Haha nope I have unlimited data I tired rebooting and using it but still no success Meh I guess I have to unlock it to see weather info
Thanks anyway
wait, it shows it on the home screen and weather app, but not on the lockscreen?
try clearing the cache on the app under "all" again but this time clear for "HTC Weather Wallpaper"
see if that does it for ya
Its not active I cant do anything with "HTC Weather Wallpaper" app. My phone is not rooted
I finally figured what was wrong All I had to do is to turn on "enable always-on mobile data" in Mobile network settings
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Can anyone answer the question that I've written in RED on the image?
I always have a space in that spot, which seems to be a waste. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Peter
PeterHTC said:
I always have a space in that spot, which seems to be a waste. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Peter
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Pure guess. There's a hidden app that loads at startup that they don't want displayed. It could be unique to Rogers.
PeterHTC said:
Please have a look at the following Image:
Can anyone answer the question that I've written in RED on the image?
I always have a space in that spot, which seems to be a waste. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Peter
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the app Visible Vote Mobile's icon is a blank space in ICS for some reason (and they haven't updated it yet), but any app would change locations depending upon the ordering of and reception of new notifications, not stay over to the left like that (in the newest slot I believe)...
It's not a Rogers thing, mine doesn't have this. Was it doing this at first boot, or only after some apps were installed?
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s.m.knipe said:
the app Visible Vote Mobile's icon is a blank space in ICS for some reason (and they haven't updated it yet), but any app would change locations depending upon the ordering of and reception of new notifications, not stay over to the left like that (in the newest slot I believe)...
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What happens on my screen is as follows: Whenever an app is opened and running, one that has an icon on the notification bar, that icon will first appear to the very far left of the notification bar. Then, a few seconds later, it jumps over to the right about 4-5mm as you can see in my OP image.
I just did another test, and created two images. The first one below was taken just a moment after I plugged the phone into my computer with a USB connection. As you can see, the USB Debugging icon appears, and it's to the absolute left. Then, after it disappears, all the icons jump over to the right, as you can see in the second image below.
Peter
I really can't say for sure ...
craig0r said:
It's not a Rogers thing, mine doesn't have this. Was it doing this at first boot, or only after some apps were installed?
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I really can't say for sure. It's been there as long as I can remember.
So, you're saying that your unit does not have this behaviour?
Peter
Are you using the app "notification toggle"? I know that app will cause the gap in the notification bar if you set it to hide the notification icon.
PeterHTC said:
I really can't say for sure. It's been there as long as I can remember.
So, you're saying that your unit does not have this behaviour?
Peter
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Right. My unit from Rogers does not exhibit the behaviour in your screenshot. It behaves perfectly. So it's almost 100% got to be an app that's installed.
I would go to Settings -> Apps -> Running, and then start killing apps one by one, watching the notification bar each time to figure out what the culprit is. (I presume when you drag the bar down, you don't see this "ghost" notification.) Note: Your phone may become unstable if you start killing all your running apps, but a reboot is guaranteed to bring it back to normal.
Found it ...
jhuynh said:
Are you using the app "notification toggle"? I know that app will cause the gap in the notification bar if you set it to hide the notification icon.
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Actually, you have the right idea. I had a look at all my running programs, and one in particular came to mind. It's called 3G Watchdog.
It allows you to have a notification icon if your data connection is active; however, even when your data connection is not active, the icon is still there, it's just invisible.
Peter
Addendum: I sent an email to the developer to see if he can change the app so that when you don't want a notification, it does not take up the space. We'll see what he/she says.
PeterHTC said:
Actually, you have the right idea. I had a look at all my running programs, and one in particular came to mind. It's called 3G Watchdog.
It allows you to have a notification icon if your data connection is active; however, even when your data connection is not active, the icon is still there, it's just invisible.
Peter
Addendum: I sent an email to the developer to see if he can change the app so that when you don't want a notification, it does not take up the space. We'll see what he/she says.
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Whenever a notification first pops up on the task bar it will take up the "entire" top bar (from left till the system battery & signal). Afterwards, if the notification is active it will display in whatever order it was opened.
In the case of 3G watchdog... it must always run as an active application or else android would shut it down if memory got low. As you can see... that would cause some problems. Hence... to keep the app open they must have it set as an active notification which forces the icon to be in the notification bar.
If the bar bothers you, I suggest using HTCs built in data usage tool. You can restrict data usage with it.
Habits are difficult to break ...
Maedhros said:
Whenever a notification first pops up on the task bar it will take up the "entire" top bar (from left till the system battery & signal). Afterwards, if the notification is active it will display in whatever order it was opened.
In the case of 3G watchdog... it must always run as an active application or else android would shut it down if memory got low. As you can see... that would cause some problems. Hence... to keep the app open they must have it set as an active notification which forces the icon to be in the notification bar.
If the bar bothers you, I suggest using HTCs built in data usage tool. You can restrict data usage with it.
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Your explanation makes perfect sense. Thank you!
As you know, it can be difficult to break well-established habits, and I've come to rely on my 3G WatchDog meters (see below).
On the other hand, if I did remove 3G WatchDog, and use HTC's built-in data usage tool, it would give me a bit more space for other apps on my home screen but, as I said, habits are hard to break.
Peter
3G WatchDog Developer's answer ...
Here's the reply I got from the developer of 3G WatchDog:
Hi Peter,
Thank you for using 3G Watchdog.
The space in the status bar corresponds to an invisible notification which is linked to the "Increase service priority" option in 3GW Settings > Advanced. As explained when you check this option, "This feature requires a permanent notification in the status bar. The icon will be hidden whenever possible, but the notification text can't".
Technically this is because Android allows to raise the priority of applications only if they have permanent notifications in the status bar. The underlying idea is that these are applications which must not interrupted even if you are doing something else (e.g. a music player) - the permanent notification stays there to give the user a way to easily control theapps (e.g. pause/restart the music).
I let you update your thread with this answer.
Best regards
Richard
Peter
hi all,
this problem also happen to me. However it wasn't 3G Watchdog causing the problem. It was My Data Manager app which has similar function like 3G Watchdog.
Thx to Maedhros and PeterHTC to give some light of what causing this empty space on notification bar
Data monitoring is built into Ice Cream Sandwhich. I'm not sure if this is the HTC tool you guys are talking about, or if they added their own (that would seem redundant, but redundancy is to be expected with mfg/carrier bloatware; see AT&T Navigator vs Google Maps w/ Navigation). I've played around with it a little bit, it's one of the nicer additions in ICS. Though I'm on grandfathered unlimited, so it's not terribly relevant to me. Still nice to be able to track data usage.
@ PeterHTC & linuxspy
I use "TrafficCounter" and have no problems with the space on the notification bar.
SwitchPro Widget also leaves a blank space in the notification bar while running.
When I got my phone on Friday, the weather app is on the home screen, and it showed a location that is not real. It says "Elvet and Gilesg..." which isn't a location you can search for, and isn't a location that anyone locally would use. Besides, it looks daft as it cuts off partway through. I live in Durham, UK and that is what ought to show.
So I searched and found Durham UK and set that as a home location. Now it shows BOTH on the home screen in the widget. Both have identical data, which isn't surprising. Elvet and Gilesgate are TWO parishes of Durham. You cannot be in both unless you have your feet astride the boundary. Mind you, I live in the parish of Neville's Cross, so it hasn't even got that right.
So I deleted Durham as my home city, and tried to set Elvet and Gilesgate (so I could have home weather shown as I visit other places), but it cannot find that as a location. I gave up and went to bed.
UPDATE: I have just found that if I go into the preferences and delete the entry for Elvet and Gilesgate, I can then select Durham as home; that is what now shows up with a house symbol. I hope it stays put.
But where on earth does the app get its location data from? If what it had was daft on day one, what hope is there as I visit other places. Is it going to pick up Parish names (that nobody uses and only locals might recognise) instead of towns and cities? To whom should I be giving feedback?