Galaxy S4 Weather Widget Not Working

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I have tried absolutely everything I have seen in similar asks on this forum and gotten nowhere. I have cleared the cache, force stopped, restarted, battery pulled, uninstalled/reinstalled, deleted location, and I still cannot get this silly widget to work. Whether I have location services turned on or off, it keeps giving "cannot find location" and "service unavailable" whenever I manually put it in. On the widget itself it just says "connection failed".

This started happening yesterday and still no change. It is the stock weather widget that comes with a Samsung Galaxy S4. Is there something I haven't tried yet that will fix this? I know there are other weather apps but this one has the aesthetic appeal that I like.
 

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Welcome to Android Central! Go to Settings>Data Usage, and make sure you're not Restricting Background Data, either universally or specifically for the Weather app.

Also, do you have the phone's Location service set to High Accuracy or Battery Saving?

Ultimately, you might want to try reinstalling the firmware using Samsung Kies.