Want to find a good weather app which will have the temperature on notification tray and would be quite detailed when I entered the app. But most importantly an app that won't make the battery suffer too much
I would suggest ezWeather, very nice and no battery drain for me.
just don't update too shortly, weather conditions doesn't change a lot in 3 hours, I'm using 24hrs update and never catch by rain w/out umbrella
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Arcus is pretty good. No noticeable battery drain and quite accurate.
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Haven't noticed much of a battery drain using Accuweather. Nice app both design and function wise. Widgets aren't the greatest though. I agree with what was said above that the update interval is most likely to impact battery life
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Yahoo Weather i think its been one of the best alternative weather apps for me !!
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I second this. I use 1weather all the time (update set at every 6 hours) and I have no discernible battery drain.
I have been using Beautiful Widgets since my days of the evo3d and have had no problems with battery drain.
Zooper
Zooper widget is pretty good. It has the option to only check weather when the screen is turned on. No battery use when the phone is asleep.
har5h
I've actually given up on weather apps and widgets and just go here http://m.wund.com/ when I need to know whats up.
good day.
eye in the sky weather is a good one.
Weatherbug Elite works great for me. I have it set to update every 30 minutes and to use network location not gps. I never even see it in the usage stats for my battery.
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It's really personal preference and more of a "try them all and see what you like best". Some are more complete and have full weather stats and radar (for the weather junkie in us) and some are more minimal and only include current conditions and a forecast. Some have nice looking widgets and some have crap for widgets.
I've tried them all, paid for them all because I like to support the devs, and came to my own conclusions: weatherbug elite is about as good as it gets for a complete weather app, but the widgets aren't pretty at all. Ezweather is gorgeous but not complete. Yahoo is nice but full of advertising crapware. 1weather is sharp as is arcus. Acuweather is OK. Palmary is OK. Weather is OK. Eyeinsky is OK but not updated. There are many more. Try them all and see which one you like
None of these had ever concerned me with battery. Ever
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WZ Weather is very nice. No drain. Looks good. Nice widgets. I've also been using yahoo, but it's always on the battery list. Uses 7 %. WZ doesn't even use 1 %.
Edit: EZ Weather of course.
Weatherbug or weatherbug elite
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Another plus for 1Weather....
No excessive battery drain with the proper settings....
Auto Refresh - Off
Under Launch Behavior: Refresh Automatically - Check
Edit My Locations: Follow My Location - Off
Edit My Location: Set a static location (I use home)
It only updates when i open the app..... also doesn't constantly ping my location...
I recommend BeWeather Pro
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Weatherbug Elite is by far the most comprehensive weather app I've found. Notification bar status updates, severe weather alerts, radar maps, live cameras, pollen count, etc.. Only uses as much battery as you tell it to.
1Weather, hands down.
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I was just wondering if it is possible to download new widgets to work with the release of 1.5.
I found the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3681080 thread which is the competition but am unsure how to actually access any of the submissions?
I also found a weather app and can download the .apk file but am unsure where to save in the root?
http://jsharkey.org/blog/2009/04/24/forecast-widget-for-android-15-with-source/
Thanks
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I was just wondering if it is possible to download new widgets to work with the release of 1.5.
I found the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3681080 thread which is the competition but am unsure how to actually access any of the submissions?
I also found a weather app and can download the .apk file but am unsure where to save in the root?
http://jsharkey.org/blog/2009/04/24/forecast-widget-for-android-15-with-source/
Thanks
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Im using the weather app, its nice. I just wish it updated more thruout the day and also it showed your current location, however its pretty sweet. all you have to do is download the apk installer from the market, copy the apk to your SD card and then look for it and launch it using the installer.
in the market there is a battery widget a sticky note widget and some others
The submissions for the contest are not public yet.
i am extremely excited about widgets...i have the battery one but cant seem to get the weather widget to work...
also anyone find any other widgets thus far...when does the widget contest end?
I'm not a huge fan of the battery widget. I prefer Battery Status in my notification bar for that.
But the weather widget is superb! And the sticky note widget is pretty nice too. I'll probably stick with AK Notepad and it's ability to add icons for certain notes to the desktop...
But I am impressed that so far they all are visually pleasing. Can't WAIT to see what the geniuses here at XDA (and elsewhere, for that matter) come up with soon!
Has anyone noticed a perceptible difference in resource usage or battery life while using widgets? The android OS is already incredibly slow compared to say an iphone, and while 1.5 and A2SD seems to help a lot i still have to try fairly hard to keep the background processes at bay. Having widgets would be great, but not at the expense of any more speed.
i havent noticed and slow downs and i have the batery widget the search widget and te clock widget...
What is the best Weather radar app , I need one that can zoom to the same sort of levels that I could get with Accuweather on my Windows Mobile phone. I currently am using Radar Now , which I like because it is very fast and gives me a good overview on the radar , but , there are times when I need to be able to zoom in much closer , with good definition than i can with that app.
TIA
Dan
p.s. This is my first Android O/S phone , so I am trying to come up to speed on what all is available for them.
i really like weatherbug elite. it has a great looking interface, and the radar is top notch. i use the weather channel app though for video forecast, if i need one of those
Im also using Weatherbug
check out "radar now" its free and does JUST radar map using gps.. its very fast..
i use that and weatherbug.
But when I am at my sons baseball game and want something to check the weather quick because I see clouds coming.. I whip that out and show it to the head coach.
rainy days
I use WeatherBug Elite, but I have also used MyCast weather in the past. MyCast was a little faster, but WeatherBug just destroys it in features. WeatherBug also has a radar map widget.
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i really like weatherbug elite. it has a great looking interface, and the radar is top notch. i use the weather channel app though for video forecast, if i need one of those
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Yeah, +100!
I too was very interested in a radar weather app. I tried a ton of free and pay apps and finally settled on Weatherbug Elite. Great interface, fast, great features, and detailed weather radar.
Spend the $2, you won't be sorry.
Definately Rainy Days. I have tried all of the widgets and apps related to radars and by far its the best. Sometimes doing one thing and doing it well is just what you need.
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Definately Rainy Days. I have tried all of the widgets and apps related to radars and by far its the best. Sometimes doing one thing and doing it well is just what you need.
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Thanks for this, it's much better than radar now. I've hooked it up to beautiful widgets so I don't really need the extra forcasting from palmary weather.
I have Beautiful Widgets Home with weater, and the Beautiful Weather Live wallpaper. It is really cool.
But, there is no way to configure who to use for a weather provider, and it is not even close. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I don't think so.
I have it set to update every hour. And over the past 2 hours it has dropped from low 90s to 74, and has been raining for 90 min or so.
the weather on the home says 95 degrees, and the live weatehr page shows brigh sunny, with white clouds going by.
Anyone having better luck with this?
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I think maybe I figured it out. We'll see after some changing weather.
But I had it checked on settings to use GPS. But, GPS doesn't come in inside the house, so it had wrong location. Even thought Geolocation was set too. But I unchecked the GPS, and saved it, and it appears to have the weather right for the live wallpaper.
Anyone know how geolocation works? (I think I'm remering the name of it right).
i am also having a problem with the Widget and live wallpaper updating. The sun rises and sets and it gets dark but my Temp is not updating and we just had a crazy storm here and it still says sunny....any help?
I had fancy Widgets which had weather but it was off by 4 or 5 degrees F.
Got rid of it. Using just digotal clock now. Simple and no wrong info.
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i must have changed something....can someone post some good settings? This is one of the most downloaded apps so i must just be screwing something up.
I know that time stops updating if you use a task killer and kill beautiful widgets. I imagine this applys to the weather also.
I think this is an issue that the LevelUp Studio people are aware of. According to this tweet, it sounds like they're going to release an update that uses a new weather data provider.
It's a problem with Google's weather service. Every app and widget that pulls data from Google's weather services has been having problems for a while now. That's why they will be switching to a new provider.
Until I can get a cool clock/weather app that works correctly, I will use it. Until then, I use retro clock and Weather Bug.
Beautiful widgets has been updated to use accuweather.com for forcasts now.
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Beautiful widgets has been updated to use accuweather.com for forcasts now.
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This is correct and works great now.
I'm having weather updating issues with the current Beautiful Widgets. Anyone else? No task killer running. Using Accuweather. Manually clicking update does nothing. Would be nice if it showed a last updated timestamp. I can click to weather details and I see that Accuweather has different weather than the widget.
Does the developer have an official support channel? Can't find one and he never responded to a twitter request.
I think they may have. I just tried to find it by going to their links in Appbrain, but only found a home page with no method there to communicate to them.
But at this link on Appbrain, there is an icon to click where you can email them. I have no idea if you will get support or response.
Whats the best app/setting and how do you get accurate location data?
Using the built in one I was never able to get anything accurate. For the last week I've been using Beautiful Widgets. It lets you chose between multiple weather sources (google and accuweather I think) and will use gps to update location. So far I'm pretty happy with it.
Hi Guys
I'm after a battery widget that is just a battery widget. I don't want one that reports back what my battery usage was all night just a widget to sit on home screen I can click that gives me information of the current battery status such as percentage left and battery temp.
I used to have a HTC one on stock sense 3.0 but since I've upgraded to ICS using ARHD i can't get the widget anymore. I got the old widget from htc sense app but I don't have this anymore.
I use this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/...o#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDUwMSwiY2NjNzEuYm13LnBybyJd it sounds like it will do what you want. The link is for the paid version, but you can also download a free version.
BMW & current widget are the more popular 1s...
Do the above all sit in the background though and use up my resources. I'm after a good reporting tools really rather than a 24 hour battery reporting tool.
I'll give the suggested a go though and see how it goes
Here's one that does nothing but report battery percentage and can be set to read temperature. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...UwMSwibmV0Lm1haWNhcy5hbmRyb2lkLmJhdHRlcnlzIl0. It uses little if any resources. I keep it on my main home screen just for reference.
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Here's one that does nothing but report battery percentage and can be set to read temperature. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...UwMSwibmV0Lm1haWNhcy5hbmRyb2lkLmJhdHRlcnlzIl0. It uses little if any resources. I keep it on my main home screen just for reference.
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Thats exactly what I'm after!! thanks Stev32k!!
shame its not the fancy HTC one but maybe they'll release it again on the new htc sense app.
I use current widget...not sure if it is what you are looking for, but I find it very useful to monitor battery draining applications.
System info widget is good. Shows batt, temp, phone storage, SD storage and ram. I think its 99cents
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Hello Guys! Since your talking about battery widget i have a question: after the ICS update on my sensation the stock battery indicator turns to orange color below 20% ( before it was 25%) but i cant find any battery app that show the same animation, all of them turn to orange below 25%! any seggestions??