Weather update connection error - Page 2

**criticalaudioinc** · #11 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 10:24 PM

Im not seeing any issues with accuweather, but the IP address used for the program to access the data information is not able to complete a tracert ( trace route ) or pass a ping test. Looks like there may be some maintance being done.

**Baffles** · #12 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 10:49 PM

Yeah, I noticed the same issue.

**Certs** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 10:51 PM

Yeah same here. I wish I didn't reformat my Diamond already, I'd check if that works so we know if its a setting issue or accuweather issue. I'll go ask in the Diamond forum

EDIT: nevermind. Seems they have trouble too, and most of you already knew that

LOL!

toinejuan · #14 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 10:53 PM

servers down I read some place about them doing maintenance or something, us Diamond users are in the same boat, so just kick back and have a cold one.

Existentialism · #15 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 10:56 PM

Gah, good to know.

joshj84 · #16 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 11:01 PM

yeah same issue on my two touch pro's

veetvoojagig · #17 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 11:28 PM

Well, the weather in my area is still working, I just stuck my head outside, and it's raining!

toinejuan · #18 (**permalink**) 10-24-2008, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veetvoojagig

Well, the weather in my area is still working, I just stuck my head outside, and it's raining!

That's definitely a way to get the forecast isn't it!?!!??!

APOLAUF · #19 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008, 04:48 AM

Same issue. Had issue before, worked once after that, but it's been down for several hours now.

**stroths** · #20 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008, 09:28 AM

Weather FIX Found

If you are getting connection errors when trying to download weather, then I have found a fix.

This problem sounded familiar to issues I worked with back on the old HTC Home Plugin with its weather tab.

The issue is with the server we pull weather from which is http://weather.manila1.htc.com/. This server is basically acting as a proxy between you and accuweather.com where it formats the data to work correctly for the HTC weather app.

One solution is to bypass that server with another one that's been freely provided by an XDA user (N2A) for quite a while now. His "proxy" is http://weather.not2advanced.com/. His server then acts as the proxy between your phone and accuweather.com.

To get our phones to use his server requires a little work, but not much depending on the method you use.

I used THIS METHOD which simply requires you to download a zip file and put the folder on your phone somewhere. Run the exe from the phone's file explorer and that's it. If you wanted to add a custom city (one not already in the HTC app), you would need to modify the text file the author includes.

You can also go with THIS METHOD but its a little more involved.