Sunday, May 26, 2013

Accuweather widget update issue in Samsung

I have seen that the free accuweather widget which is part of all Samsung offering in their android platform refuses to update even if i do manual update. I have this issue on the Galaxy Grand Duos where the weather widget does not refresh after sometime even if you try a manual refresh. I found it worked with the following way:


  1. Reboot the smartphone: This works in all cases but is not a very good solution. Just for one widget issue rebooting the phone is not good, so was searching for some alternate solutions.
  2. Clear data: Clear All data by going to settings->Application Manager->Weather Main-Clear data. This works without reboot but has issue of losing info about all the multiple location you had enabled for tracking and you need to start from scratch. Not a neat solution as well.
  3. Remove auto refresh completely and do manual refresh each time: This has worked for me for last few days and seems to be the best option. When we really need to know of the weather refresh it before viewing it.
SO try (3), if not (2) and worst case (1). Hope samsung will fix this issue with an update till then the above fix seems to be the only work around for weather widget. Any other solution mention in the comment.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Nokia Bluetooth Handset and Android phone

In case you are one like me who has a Nokia bluetooth handset BH-216 and now got a new Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Grand in my case and i hope it should be same with other phones as well) and finds out that your old hands free is not working with android, this is what you need to do.


  1. Switch on the bluetooth connection from your android phone
  2. Switch on the BH-216
  3. Within 3 mins, Scan for bluetooth device from the android phone.
  4. In case your phone does not detect your BH-216, switch off your hands free.
  5. Now press both the call button and power button for 6 secs.
  6. You will see both red and green colour LED glowing one after another. Once you see this wait for a few sec.
  7. Do step (1) to (3) again and it should work now.

Enjoy Nokia BH-216 with your Android phone.