Weather App: current location is wrong

Irish Stones

I have been having the Weather App by MacroPinch on my Sony Z3c since I bought the phone.
I had set the current position option on, so that I could have the forecasts for the place I am.
Some days ago I went from my town (A) to another town (B), the App followed me, but when I came back home the current position was still town B. I haven't been able to reset it to the place where I live. I switched the option off and on several times, to no avail.
The GPS is active and working, all other functions are OK.
I also sent many messages to MacroPinch, but got no reply.
Any hint?
Thanks a lot!

Tom Dunne

It actually could be something to do with the mobile phone network, not your actual phone.

If your phone is connecting to a cell tower some distance away, it's using that as a quick location. GPS tends to take a long time to get a lock, so phones use the cell towers for reference.

That could be one explanation.

Squeeonline

The other thing it could be is that there is a rogue wifi network nearby. Google drives around and maps the location of wifi networks (by name only I think). Your phone can also determine your location from that data (i.e. what pattern of wifi networks it can see).

This has the strange effect of transporting me to the Singapore last week while I was on the same train as someone else who had set up a portable hotspot or something.

Only when I got a GPS lock and switched off wifi location temporarily, was the situation resolved.

Irish Stones

Tom Dunne wrote: »

It actually could be something to do with the mobile phone network, not your actual phone.

If your phone is connecting to a cell tower some distance away, it's using that as a quick location. GPS tends to take a long time to get a lock, so phones use the cell towers for reference.

That could be one explanation.

I think this could be true if town A and town B were at a certain close distance. In fact town A and B are about 180 km away.
If the phone locks on a cell tower, it has many others but mine, rather than locking on a tower out of range.

Irish Stones

Squeeonline wrote: »

The other thing it could be is that there is a rogue wifi network nearby. Google drives around and maps the location of wifi networks (by name only I think). Your phone can also determine your location from that data (i.e. what pattern of wifi networks it can see).

This problem happens when I'm home (with my own wifi network), at work (where the wifi network is password protected and I haven't it), or walking, passing by other networks or not.
It's been a week since I am getting the weather forecasts for a place which is not mine

Only when I got a GPS lock and switched off wifi location temporarily, was the situation resolved.

I have switched off and on the wifi, data and BT on my phone. Nothing changed... right now it's pouring rain over here, the phone says partly cloudy because this is what's going on in town B

StereoSound

I use 1weather and it does the same thing. It updates the weather but not the location.

Irish Stones

I think I solved the problem.
I have deleted all App data and cleared the cache and this restored the current location.
It came with a cost, though. I had other locations that I saved and that I used to check their weather every now and then, and they were deleted as well.
I recalled them from the world database.
Let's see what happens next

Irish Stones

Irish Stones wrote: »

I think I solved the problem.

No, I did not!
When I cleared the cache and data of the App I was at work, the location was changed from town B to the location where I work, but when I went back home to town A the App kept showing the weather for the town where I was a few minutes before...
I sent another message to the developer, but they don't answer back!