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[storyr]

Originally Posted by joemike60

Storyr - I am seeing some weird behavior with WP, and I think only you may be able to diagnose. For the last couple of months, I am seeing a problem with WP downloading radar images. Starting at approximately 9:30PM CT, WP downloads all images every minute until either ~ 4:30AM or until the memory is full. I have checked and rechecked that the frequency is set correctly (30 minutes). The only way I can prevent this is to disconnect the data connection. Any idea why this could be happening? I am using the WP2009 that you compiled for us.

Thanks!

Are you saying it does this every day (at around 9:30)?

I've never heard if this particular issue, but I personally have had intermittent update issues where it seems the update runs constantly, the device heats up and the battery drains very quickly.

In my experience (on multiple devices), it seemed to occur when I had push email on (instance notification) AND in a low signal area. I switched my email to pull every five minutes and I haven't had the issue since.

There's nothing more I can do about WeatherPanel itself - other than find workarounds for it's problems - no one has the source code.

[SportyRydr]

Originally Posted by storyr

Are you saying it does this every day (at around 9:30)?

I've never heard if this particular issue, but I personally have had intermittent update issues where it seems the update runs constantly, the device heats up and the battery drains very quickly.

In my experience (on multiple devices), it seemed to occur when I had push email on (instance notification) AND in a low signal area. I switched my email to pull every five minutes and I haven't had the issue since.

This just happened to me for the first time since I started using WP in April. For one thing, I don't use "push email" (if by that, you mean the built-in email client), but I do use FlexMail. The last update time displayed by WP was 02:41, 20 min before my nightly backup. It has been doing the "constant update" thing ever since, BUT, it HAS been updating the data, just not the time of the update on the display. Weirder still, I did a hard reset and installed ONLY WP, and it STILL has the problem! No FlexMail installed and no accounts set up in the built-in email. I'm stumped! My restored backup didn't fix it, so until this problem is solved, I can't use WP anymore, because even if I turn off auto-updates, it still does its "constant update" thing, claiming it can't get on the internet, even though IT started a connection!!!

[storyr]

Originally Posted by SportyRydr

This just happened to me for the first time since I started using WP in April. For one thing, I don't use "push email" (if by that, you mean the built-in email client), but I do use FlexMail. The last update time displayed by WP was 02:41, 20 min before my nightly backup. It has been doing the "constant update" thing ever since, BUT, it HAS been updating the data, just not the time of the update on the display. Weirder still, I did a hard reset and installed ONLY WP, and it STILL has the problem! No FlexMail installed and no accounts set up in the built-in email. I'm stumped! My restored backup didn't fix it, so until this problem is solved, I can't use WP anymore, because even if I turn off auto-updates, it still does its "constant update" thing, claiming it can't get on the internet, even though IT started a connection!!!

Well, the same thing started happing to me this morning. My only option was to remove WeatherPanel from the Today screen.

I highly suspect that weather.com may have changed something on their weather data feed (they had threatened to shut it off a few months ago) . I'll look at it when I get time.

This could be the end...

[JoeTreaf]

Originally Posted by storyr

I highly suspect that weather.com may have changed something on their weather data feed (they had threatened to shut it off a few months ago) . I'll look at it when I get time.
This could be the end...

Is there any chance that you can switch to a different data feed provider?

[jtaylor1981]

Originally Posted by storyr

Well, the same thing started happing to me this morning. My only option was to remove WeatherPanel from the Today screen.

I highly suspect that weather.com may have changed something on their weather data feed (they had threatened to shut it off a few months ago) . I'll look at it when I get time.

This could be the end...

I HOPE NOT!! This has been the only weather program I've used since 2007!!! I LOVE IT & use it EVERYDAY! I hope this can be fixed!!