HTC Home Weather Stopped Updating? Here's the Fix

**stroths** · #1 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 10:30 AM

If you are using an older version of N2A's patched HTC Home Plugin then your weather stopped updating recently. You need a new version from the thread linked below.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319187

Another option that worked for me was to delete the registry key below and then soft reset. The key below is created by older versions of N2A's modded HTC Home Plug to redirect weather to his server rather than accuweather's. If your city is not already in htc.accuweather.com then you must download a new version.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Tcpip\Hosts\htc.accuweathe r.com

Some may experience issues with the registry changes not sticking. If you run into this issue, try hitting the power button and waiting a few minutes before resetting.

**bedoig** · #2 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 11:42 AM

Thanks for the info. Mine stopped updating yesterday afternoon.

Dagger969 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 12:09 PM

Thats great news. I just did a hard reset and thought mine was just borked. Good work.

kcaegis45 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 01:35 PM

I did the touch.dll cab and the weather is now working on my Touch.
I had 5 tabs set up before the new cab install but now I only get 3 tabs - Home, Weather and Launcher. I tried resetting the tabs but it still comes up with three tabs. I tried a softreset but its still 3 tabs
Im using Emunutz .8b customizer & HomePluginWM6.
I reinstalled both and the 5 tabs are back but now the weather is not working.
I like having 5 tabs but I also want the weather.
Any suggestons or should I just wait for the cab override by N2A?

Dagger969 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 01:56 PM

He has more than one cab posted. You're looking for the WM5 one that is 1.84 megs.

kcaegis45 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 04:22 PM

I got it to work on both my Touch and mogul
I dl the wrong files. I thought I was suppose to use one of the 5 zip files, the ones with the pictures of the zip. I was wrong.

Now I used :
For other devices: UPX compressed / Uncompressed
and everything is working.

For those who was as confused as I was who has the Mogul or Touch.
1) DL either compressed or Uncompressed - For other devices: UPX compressed / Uncompressed from the XDA link from #1 post above.
2) uninstall your present version of Home Plugin
3) install the new dl (htchome-2.1-n2a-weatherfix)
And depending on your customizer, redo you theme, weather cities, etc.
And now your back to normal..

jbh00jh · #7 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stroths

If you are using an older version of N2A's patched HTC Home Plugin then your weather stopped updating recently. You need a new version from the thread linked below.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319187

Another option that worked for me was to delete the registry key below and then soft reset. The key below is created by older versions of N2A's modded HTC Home Plug to redirect weather to his server rather than accuweather's. If your city is not already in htc.accuweather.com then you must download a new version.

HKEY_LOCAL_MA

Some may experience issues with the registry changes not sticking. If you run into this issue, try hitting the power button and waiting a few minutes before resetting.

Thanks for the help.

stylz3 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 11:07 PM

thanks stroths for this fix. started to get worried with the weather not updating in the HTC home plug-in, but it was all a server problem and this fix was the solution.

buck95 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-28-2007, 08:24 PM

Works great on my 6700 using the HTC-Homeplug_WM5_N2A_weatherpatched.CAB suggested above even though im using wm6 with the homepage installed with the rom

rbarbieri · #10 (**permalink**) 11-29-2007, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stroths

If you are using an older version of N2A's patched HTC Home Plugin then your weather stopped updating recently. You need a new version from the thread linked below.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319187

Another option that worked for me was to delete the registry key below and then soft reset. The key below is created by older versions of N2A's modded HTC Home Plug to redirect weather to his server rather than accuweather's. If your city is not already in htc.accuweather.com then you must download a new version.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Tcpip\Hosts\htc.accuweathe r.com

Some may experience issues with the registry changes not sticking. If you run into this issue, try hitting the power button and waiting a few minutes before resetting.

The .cab fixes for the htc weather problem did not work for me (tried a few times in a couple ways). However the registry change did, and was alot easier.