Widgets doesn't update.
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@Suty
Hi, I follow on this thread as I experience similar issue. The widget went all dark, with the notification "Updating widget" always present in the taskbar, for hours, and battery usage was abnormally high for windy.
I removed the wigdets from my home screen, but the windy battery usage remained high.The app has all the correct permissions (battery, notifications, location,...)
I tried to reboot the phone, still unable to use the widget.My device is a Gigaset GS5, runing android 12, and I have the nova app Launcher.
Hope this can be solved soon.
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@SebVanElsass With this specification and custom launcher, I am afraid that there is something that affects battery optimization in your system. Sometimes, on many Android devices, you can have full battery access, but there is another app managing this and that affects the widget behavior as well.
For instance, certain Samsung models with their OneUI have optimization app installed, that our widgets cannot detect, but it still affect the behavior.
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@Suty
I tried also with the stock launcher, the same issue happens. So Nova is not to blame. I've been using Windy and its widgets for a while on this device without issue, so I doubt that there is a background process affecting it. Nevertheless, I've looked again deeply in all settings and looked for system app and could not find additional restriction settings that could affect windy behaviour.
I hope this can be solved soon.
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@Suty ...and will it be fixed? I've been a loyal user forever....this is frustrating
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I've noticed something else, every Saturday it stops refreshing automatically and I have to reset everything again. This is now the third Saturday it's fine the same thing, last update of the widget was at 04:15 and it's now 08:00.
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@MarcG77 ...and again at 4:10am Sunday morning, there's something stopping them from refreshing.
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@Lprusak We are working on the solution, however, I am not able to tell you the exact date.
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@Suty Good to read that a solution is coming.
I am looking forward to being able to use Windy again,
I had to completely uninstall the app, because it was still draining battery even without Windy widget on the home screen, while other weather app widget work fine.Thank you.
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Widgets update continuously, so my phone is hot
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@gtrabison said in Widgets doesn't update.:
My device is a Samsung A53 with One UI 6.0.
I can confirm the exact same situation on Samsung M54 with One UI 5. Widget had been refreshing forever, and Windy the top app in battery usage. After uninstalling battery back to normal. Thanks.
Edit: as I've been using windy for quite some time and have followed last year's widget issues, I can confirm all permission were set as expected. Re-adding the widget or reinstalling the app sometimes fixes the issues for some time. Even removing the widget, the high battery usage remained, so I've uninstalled for now.
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, Android 14, OneUI 6. Confirming the same. The Widget stopped working and there was a huge battery drain, so I removed the widget, but Windy is still a huge drain on the battery - see the attached screen grab.
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@gsallman Except this software won't let me attach a screen grab... so here's a link to the image on Dropbox.
I don't know how the OS / phone calculates these figures, but 5 hours of CPU and 7 hours of GPS for an app that's running in the background, with just 2 minutes of screen time, seems excessive.
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I did some more research in my phone's records. Prior to the update Windy's battery usage was less than 1% per day. After the update it's running at 15-20% per day.
[edit to clarify that it is the battery usage that increased]
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I am experiencing the same issue on an iPhone 11 Pro Max running the latest iOS version 17.
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Any news? I was considering to purchase the premium versions but not in these conditions
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@ToniSR There is a certain progress on the end of development, but it will still take some time, unforutnately.
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@Suty as per my posts above again on a Saturday and at 6:10am (GMT) the widgets stop updating, however I'm not suffering battery drainage like others. When I click the widgets or open the app it works just fine, just the widgets not updating so the only cure is a complete restart of the phone.
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Same issue here.
Deleted windy completely for now :(
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@Suty Are there any news? Thanks
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@ToniSR We are testing the new version with potential fix. Hopefully, it will be a solution in a few days.
