Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update
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The only workaround for me is to remove v39.x and "downgrade" to v38.1.5. All functionality is back at that point on my Android device.
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@thomasn-1 Thanks for the suggestions. As you mentioned, 15 minute updates would be using the battery much more. Unfortunately widgets are not designed to fetch data when you check the screen with the installed widgets - in fact the widget does not have a trigger which indicates this action. Anyway we will consider implementation of a much more frequent widget update option.
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@sethro2 @freezoid As @thomasn-1 mentioned widget reconfiguration should help resolve your issues. The steps are described in this post: https://community.windy.com/topic/27159/android-v-39-widget-loading-issues?_=1690471297746
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@MarkNagy hi, if you read my posts you can see, that I followed all these steps with no luck - multiple times, after each update.
Meanwhile I downloaded 38.1.5 from apkmirror and installed it. Let me observe the behavior a bit, but currently it looks like it's back to what I was used to, I will report.
Also I got back the black border around the weather radar which I like more.So long story short.
As explained multiple times, I also have the app from the German weather service which off course only delivers data for Germany, so that's not my universal choice when travelling, that's why I appreciated the Windy widgets.
Their widgets are always up to date when I activate my phone. The widgets always display very recent data.
Yes, if I check battery consumption then Windy is in the 1% region and the German weather service app is reported with 3% but that's ok for me.
So if you have the possibility to let us chose, then I would chose 15 minute updates and spend some battery power for it!Best Regards,
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Firefox Android v. 115.2.1
Windy v. 39.1.4
Same problem here. All of July the widget went thru various stages of erratic behaviors:
1] Blacked out while icon spinning, unrelenting push notice saying "Updating Widget" but doesn't. Cannot "clear" this notice.
2) Currently can see everything just fine except the Temperature widget onscreen is static at 79
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So back on 38.1.5 the widget updated regularly yesterday evening and today morning I take my phone at 6:51 switch on the screen, flick to the launcher page with the widget and immediately see the weather radar from 6:50
That‘s what I was used to and what I want :-)
I‘ll stay with the older version now and keep an eye on this thread before I give the update another try.So I add this a bit later:
It‘s sad, but it looks like also the older version only refreshes every hour and it was just coincidence, that the refresh just took place a minute ago when I activated my phone this morning.
So at least the widget works consistently also the next day but I could swear, that it updated more frequently in the past.To the Windy engineers:
Could you please elaborate a bit what all has changed recently and how does the refresh mechanism work. Is this server triggered by push or does the widget do this based on a timer? Was there a change in refresh cycle times from shorter cycles to one hour now?
Or was it always one hour and I just always coincidentally looked at the screen when the last refresh wasn‘t too long ago and I notice this now, since I very thoroughly examine the behavior?If the refresh cycle time is controlled by the widget, then I would appreciate a setting where I can chose between every hour / 30 minutes / 15 minutes.
Best Regards,
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@thomasn-1 The refresh is triggered by the widget and the refresh time was always set to one hour. We made some changes under the hood - the old mechanism was unreliable because on most devices the automatic refresh did not work at all.
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@MarkNagy hi Mark, ok thx, that would have been valuable information, that the refresh was always one hour, so,then all my observations have been coincidentally.
Please consider providing options to have shorter refresh cycles, at least for the weather radar, if technically possible.
Best Regards,
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When I disable battery optimalization for Windy app it has big battery drain. CPU is forced to run on higher frequencies due it.
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I meanwhile setup a launcher screen with three weather radar widgets for comparison.
The one from Windy, one from the German weather service and one from wetteronline.deWindy has the lowest refresh rate at 1 hour.
Wetteronline.de refreshes every 15 minutes
The German weather services widget seems to refresh around every 5 minutesLooking at the optics, I like the Windy widet the most and it is international.
Wetteronline.de seems to be international as well, but I don‘t like the graphics very much and there‘s a fixed zoom factor which is very tight.
The one from German weather services does not allow to zoom at all, so I see the whole country which is less useful and it is Germany only, but the most accurate.Well……as said, I like the Windy widget the most, if it would just refresh more often :-(
If you could improve this, I‘m back to Windy again.Best Regards,
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Hi, as it was mentioned here already, we already released an update (version 39.1.4, build date 2023-7-28), which should help to solve major problems with widgets since the update to version 39. Please check this post for more info.
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@Ondřej-Šutera that I understood thx.
How about a refresh every 15 minutes to make the widget more usable. Is this something you consider? The Windy weather radar on my IPad does this. -
I think that @MarkNagy already said this here in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
@thomasn-1 Thanks for the suggestions. As you mentioned, 15 minute updates would be using the battery much more. Unfortunately widgets are not designed to fetch data when you check the screen with the installed widgets - in fact the widget does not have a trigger which indicates this action. Anyway we will consider implementation of a much more frequent widget update option.
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@MarkNagy thank you for the note and installed latest version along with following instructions. The app still cannot grab a GPS location which I suspect is causing the widget to spin endlessly. Permission Manager shows Windy polling for a location tho.
/e/OS (port of Lineage OS) is releasing an update soon so will see if that has any positive effect on v39.x. Will go back to using v38.1.5 in the meantime.
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Remove at last that annoying widget refresh animation (spinning circle) please. It is nonstop spinning. Thanks
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@Ondřej-Šutera Even with a complete uninstall, then installing the new version, disabling the battery optimization didn't change anything for me. The widget still doesn't update unless I switch to a new location. Manual refreshes don't change anything reg. the temperature. Horrible experience. (Android 8)
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@madjoe And do you have version 39.1.4 with build date 2023-7-28? All this info is at the bottom of the menu.
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@Ondřej-Šutera That's exactly my build date/version.
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@Roman-Pertzian-2 why?
Then we don‘t even see that something is not working and can‘t report the issue! -
@madjoe Same for me as above.
