Weather definitely not updating

[ks-man]

Yes that is strange. Yes, I see the updates both on the watch face and on the weather widget.

It's a stretch but you may want to try this: Within the settings for the Samsung weather widget, turning on "Use Current Location" if it isn't already.

I am using a Galaxy S6. A strange thing I recall from back when I was using a Galaxy S5 earlier with the Gear Fit was that that setting had to be enabled for the weather update to work properly on the Gear Fit. With the Galaxy S6, it worked properly whether or not that setting was enabled. That seems like a bug to me that maybe was fixed with the S6, maybe exists on the Note 4 and applies to the Gear S2 also.

Also, I have a weather complication on the main face (Modern Utility). I don't know if that makes a difference (it shouldn't, but may be a bug).

I've pretty much tried everything. "Use Current Location" is on in phone weather widget. I guess the only thing would be the phone. Really frustrating. Samsung did fix the low step count with a firmware update so hopefully they are monitoring things and will fix it.

 

[FitzAusTex]

I've pretty much tried everything. "Use Current Location" is on in phone weather widget. I guess the only thing would be the phone. Really frustrating. Samsung did fix the low step count with a firmware update so hopefully they are monitoring things and will fix it.

weather not automatically updating on nexus phones either. And not really convinced that Samsung has fixed the low step count. Still about 20% under actual for me.

 

[becca0327]

Hey guys, sorry I haven't replied, and I apologize for not being very clear on the actions I took to "fix" the weather app on the watch not updating. I've found that my method did not fix the app to update. I'm also noticing that now my SHealth information isn't updating now. I turned off activity notifications from SHealth app on the phone as it was annoying for me to get notified I wasn't being active while I'm at work moving on my feet all day! Now it seems it does track my steps although I'm not sure how accurate it is. But I have to manually go into the app or refresh the steps widget on the phone for it to update. Also I noticed that sometimes both the weather and SHealth will update when I switch from being connected to the wifi at work, to 4G, then back to wifi at my house.

 

[FitzAusTex]

I've found that S Health doesn't always immediately sync S2 data to phone, but does eventually. And by eventually I mean within 30 minutes or so. I figure it must have a schedule.

As far as step accuracy, I find short walking (less than 20 steps) can be a problem. Also, pausing (like stopping to grab something off kitchen counter), can cause a problem. Or abruptly changing walking direction. I'm losing up to 2k steps (or 20%) per day due to the S2 step counting algorithm. This is compared to my Samsung Gear Fit and Gear Live. And this is even after the firmware update to R720XXU2AOJ3.

 

[becca0327]

My SHealth isn't syncing every 30 minutes. Sometimes I look at the steps widget on the phone and it hasn't updated for 5 hours. I'm on the same gear s2 update as you, so I'm not sure what the issue is there. Last night I dusted off my gear fit and used as my sleep tracker. Worked like a charm. I guess I'll just be swapping out watched at bedtime. I'm just glad that I didn't pay retail price for either of these watches. I really prefer the S2 interface when compared to Androidwear. It's pretty sad that they can't interface their products any better than this. I mean the weather update issue has been a problem since the first gear watch released.

 

[supersoulfly]

Mine wasn't updating correctly, but it's fine now.

Originally I had my home city as my default screen and then the location based weather as my second. To fix it I got on my phone gear app and removed both cities. Then I just set my location based weather as my only city. Updates every hour now.

 

[becca0327]

Hmm, I have every weather setting I can find as current location. So everything matches up. Still won't auto update.

 

[craiglee]

Thanks Super! Your solution is looking promising. One would think someone from Samsung would be lurking here to answer things like this for their customers. But I have always viewed them as too big of a company to care about such little things that are important to us, and so, we are "on our own" :-\

 

[kmroth20]

Mine wasn't updating correctly, but it's fine now.

Originally I had my home city as my default screen and then the location based weather as my second. To fix it I got on my phone gear app and removed both cities. Then I just set my location based weather as my only city. Updates every hour now.

How do you remove the cities?

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[nickdeck]

How do you remove the cities?

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Same question. I can see (on the Gear phone app) where to add cities, but not delete.

 

[FitzAusTex]

Same question. I can see (on the Gear phone app) where to add cities, but not delete.

select Weather, then Cities in App settings under Apps section of Gear App. Then select EDIT at top. Then check off the city you want to delete. And then select DELETE at top.

 

[FitzAusTex]

And I'll add that I've tried all this and it doesn't work on non-Samsung phones. Have to manually update weather by tapping widget.

 

[nickdeck]

select Weather, then Cities in App settings under Apps section of Gear App. Then select EDIT at top. Then check off the city you want to delete. And then select DELETE at top.

Thanks, Fitz.

My Gear app is aparently different than yours. Under the list of cities, I don't have "Edit", only "Add" (at the top). If I tap "Add", all I can do is search for cities to add.

At first, I only had one city, my home, but I'm pretty sure that was there only because it was determined by "location" by default. I turned off location, and my city disappeared. Then I turned location back on, so I'm back where I started. Doubt if it'll make a difference with the updating, but I'll report back if it does.

 

[FitzAusTex]

Thanks, Fitz.

My Gear app is aparently different than yours. Under the list of cities, I don't have "Edit", only "Add" (at the top). If I tap "Add", all I can do is search for cities to add.

At first, I only had one city, my home, but I'm pretty sure that was there only because it was determined by "location" by default. I turned off location, and my city disappeared. Then I turned location back on, so I'm back where I started. Doubt if it'll make a difference with the updating, but I'll report back if it does.

yeah you only get the DELETE option after you manually add a city (and only after you select EDIT, and check off the manually added city).

 

[Nightdiff]

Mine wasn't updating correctly, but it's fine now.

Originally I had my home city as my default screen and then the location based weather as my second. To fix it I got on my phone gear app and removed both cities. Then I just set my location based weather as my only city. Updates every hour now.

Do you have to keep the gps on the phone on?

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[ks-man]

Looks like Samsung updated the Gear App. Now in weather settings on the phone you can see when it last updated. I hit the refresh button on the Gear app and it updated the temperature and that got sent to my Gear S2. The true test will be if this updates regularly but it is looking promising with this app update.

 

[FitzAusTex]

I've been checking since I updated new Gear app yesterday, and I can confirm that my S2 is now actually updating weather automatically based off my choice in Gear app to update every one hour. Yea!

 

[becca0327]

After the gear app update, my weather updates still break after a phone reboot. :'(

 

[ks-man]

It seems like my issue is that the weather in the Gear App is not updating. I just checked in the app and it said last update was about two hours ago despite the setting being every hour. When I pressed the refresh button (at the bottom of the Gear app setting) it updated the temperature and pushed it to my watch within about 5 seconds. I'm not sure why the app won't update the weather on my phone (Note 4).

 

[FitzAusTex]

It seems like my issue is that the weather in the Gear App is not updating. I just checked in the app and it said last update was about two hours ago despite the setting being every hour. When I pressed the refresh button (at the bottom of the Gear app setting) it updated the temperature and pushed it to my watch within about 5 seconds. I'm not sure why the app won't update the weather on my phone (Note 4).

do you have weather set to auto refresh in the Gear app settings? I'm using a non Samsung phone, and we have an option under Settings - > Individual app settings -> Weather - > Auto refresh.