HTC News widget question

[chuckawd]

My HTC news widget is not updating nor has it since April 14. I have tried numerous times to sync it to no avail. It also randomly opens up on its own usually after the phone has been locked for a few minutes. It's becoming quite annoying. Any thoughts?

 

[fatboy97]

Thoughts??? Sure... I would not want to assume you've set it up correctly, but maybe you did set up a feed, then go into the Settings of the app itself and set "Update schedule", maybe even "Update when opened" is now checked... did you do all these???

If so, then you might want to go onto your home screen > Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage applications > All tab > click on the News app > click Force stop, then Clear data > Home... then start the app again... you might have to add your feeds again, and then make sure you go into the apps settings again and be sure everything is set up correctly again.

 

[petaf]

This has happened to me twice. Decided not to use. Very annoying!

 

[jeslevine]

Not sure if you are referring to the rss feed news widget/app, but using the links that came with the phone didn't work for me, I needed to add the links manually, replacing the ones that were set on the app originally

 

[FrankXS]

This has happened to me twice. Decided not to use. Very annoying!

Ditto. The only thing worse than filling a phone up with Bloatware is filling it up with Bloatware that does not function. How stupid. Very bad PR. There are many Bloatware apps on this phone that simply will not function (without geeky tweaking) and cause all sorts of bad PR, in my opinion.

-Frank