Home screen weather shows wrong city

[RobB772]

Does anyone know how to get the home page to display the weather for the correct city? I live in Rochester NY and it shows temp and conditions for Northwestern Comanche?  Verizon and Google location service are both active (checked). I can get it to show Rochester as city#2 but then I can't delete Northwest Comanche ( I believe that's in Oklahoma ) but it will allow me to delete where I am actually located (Rochester) Is there a way to get the gps to know it's not in Oklahoma?

[my3chis]

My Incredible does that all the time.  I was hoping the ThunderBolt wouldn't do the same thing.

[Silverado1978]

Mine is doing the same. It says im in houston tx. Um no buffalo

[pjmosqu]

Mine is doing this too, though its a little closer to where I actually am...in the same state least. Also, the weather is way off, its dark and cool outside and my phones telling me is 83 degrees out there. Pretty annoying.

[alfieferenzo84]

Welcome to android lol

[RobB772 · Accepted solution]

Verizon tech service uninstalled the weather app, downloaded Weatherbug (free) from the market and I now have the weather for Rochester (temp in notification bar and other views when opened fron the notification. I'm happy (so far)

[AndyC812]

Yeah, but does WeatherBug show up on the cool HTC Sense home page?

[FormerNavy]

I'm wondering how they uninstalled this as I thought it was part of their Bloatware that couldn't be removed.  I'd love to be able to remove some other bloatware. : )

[kvp]

I've been plagued with this problem since owning the Tbolt for two weeks. I am either in Garden Grove California or Indianapolis Indiana with the associated time zone at those locations.  I've visited the store twice and performed a hard reset on the phone with no luck.  It is aggravating that such a minor problem renders a big nuisance.  I could live without the weather widget. I don't care if it works or not but when the time and time zone are incorrect that's another story.

I'm pleased with the rest of the phone.  Any ideas?

[RobB772]

The "fix" done by Verizon tech worked until I rebooted the device because I removed the battery to read the SN to register  on the HTC forum website about access to HTCSense.com. Now it goes on vacation to other places ( must like the weather in those cities better

[kvp]

Verizon tech support has no idea why it is doing it.  My daughter has a Tbolt also which does not do this erratic behavior.  I was told to wait a week for a call back while network techs look into possibly the network causing it as opposed to the phone.  I'll post their information here when it is received.  Like I told them I care less about the weather but when the time changes on me, that is a big problem.

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RobB772 wrote:

The "fix" done by Verizon tech worked until I rebooted the device because I removed the battery to read the SN to register  on the HTC forum website about access to HTCSense.com. Now it goes on vacation to other places ( must like the weather in those cities better

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[TBoltOwner]

Amazing how my Weather Channel app seems to know where I am...

[kvp]

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TBoltOwner wrote:

Amazing how my Weather Channel app seems to know where I am...

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I use My-Cast and have tried TWC.  If you look often enough you will see these apps too will momentarily show you in the phantom location, albeit for a split second then they seem to come back to reality.

[TBoltOwner]

Yep...but at least TWC does come back to reality...can't say that for the Home Screen.

[TBoltOwner]

To be honest, I do find that the weather widget works.  In every teeny tiny hamlet located around where I live, the display shows what city, township, borough I happen to be in at the time.  However, in my bustling hometown, in which is located a huge Verizon Wireless corporate presence, it either shows "Current Location" or my home state - go figure.

[jtbrucato]

Mine was showing I was in India a few times, I live in Florida, no where near my neighborhood. I just installed Beautiful Widgets. I like how this App looks better anyway, and it is highly cutomizable. I bought this paid app back when I had my Moto Droid 1, and have used it on my INC my X and now my T-Bolt.

[dmruser]

Today mine has been saying Sarajevo!  Usually it says New York - and I live in Colorado. 

I am not going to pay for an app.  I expect...this phone to work even as a "proof of concept".  If it can't get my location correctly for just the clock/weather widge, what else is it failing to geo-locate?

[bry2254]

This worked for me. Hold the city-drag down to edit-put in your city.

[jordanbondurant]

Press the Menu button, press Edit, and turn off "Current City". Then you will just have the city/cities you added. You can also go to settings and uncheck Enable Current Location, but I don't think you need to.

[Ann154]

I would think that the OP has figured that out since the post was started over a year ago.