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Baz7520 · **BBWeather - Saved by Weatherwonderman Tateu -** 05-06-2008, 10:48 AM

Is anyone else receiving an error: Bad or missing query parameters in request. when trying to update BBWeather? I received this error on versions 0.74 and 0.75

Thanks

JSanders · 05-06-2008, 10:51 AM

Do you have your weather locations entered?

I would pull the battery and reboot. I have seen that error before, but it never persisted.

Baz7520 · 05-06-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JSanders

Do you have your weather locations entered?

I would pull the battery and reboot. I have seen that error before, but it never persisted.

Locations are entered and I have done a battery pull reboot.

dacphilly · 05-06-2008, 11:00 AM

Woke up this morning with the same issue. Pulled the battery but still have the issue.

Klotar · **OS:** 5.0.0.314

It is my understanding that BBWeather, and all other applications (BB or otherwise) that use that weather site for updates, ceased to exist as of today. Well, maybe not ceased to exist (I don't know the exact details) but the site no longer supports weather updates in the same way.

e.g. as announced elsewhere, Pocket Day has changed weather update providers. This is why, as PD used to use the same site.

/goodbye BBWeather (unless it's re-written to use a new alternate site).

ArgonNJ · 05-06-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Klotar

It is my understanding that BBWeather, and all other applications (BB or otherwise) that use that weather site for updates, ceased to exist as of today. Well, maybe not ceased to exist (I don't know the exact details) but the site no longer supports weather updates in the same way.

e.g. as announced elsewhere, Pocket Day has changed weather update providers. This is why, as PD used to use the same site.

/goodbye BBWeather (unless it's re-written to use a new alternate site).

Just curious, what was the site it used?

dacphilly · 05-06-2008, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ArgonNJ

Just curious, what was the site it used?

I believe it used weather.com

zerog46 · 05-06-2008, 11:24 AM

Weather Eye works very well.

www.weyebb.pelmorex.com/BlackBerry

cgarrabr · 05-06-2008, 11:27 AM

This was one of my favorite apps. Any chance someone will re-write the program? I'm not a programmer, so I don't even know if it's possible.

juwaack68 · 05-06-2008, 11:36 AM

BBWeather is not working on either of my devices. If anyone has an explanation why it's not working anymore, can you please post it here (or a link to something explaining it)?

JSanders · 11:53 AM

It is being said that the website it referenced to pull the weather from no longer exists, or at least the application is no longer able to pull data FROM that source.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...tml#post919438

dacphilly · 05-06-2008, 11:49 AM

So now that BBWeather is off-line, can anyone suggest a weather app that can have multiple profiles. I had 19 cities set up in BBWeather and Weather EYE doesn't seem up to that task.

Thanks!

tannis00 · 05-06-2008, 11:51 AM

Wirelessly posted (Blackberry 7280)

Having the same issue with Blackberry Today.

John Clark · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

BBToday used the same weather sites. This is the death of a BB staple. I hope someone can rewrite this open-source code to use a new weather server.

juwaack68 · 05-06-2008, 12:11 PM

No kidding....I routinely tell my users about this program and I know a lot of them use it. I may have to change my phone number.

John Clark · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

I've already emailed all my folks.

daphne · **OS:** 4.7.1.40

It looks like weather.com has its own mobile service.

The Weather Channel Mobile: local forecasts, radar and current conditions on your cell phone or PDA

I don't know if this is new or what, but maybe they stopped supporting other weather apps in an attempt to get people to use their own service? Just speculation on my part.

I have this site bookmarked on my Blackberry, with the link to my zip code.

Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground

It seems to be a lot more accurate than weather.com.

juwaack68 · 05-06-2008, 12:20 PM

What did you tell them - just that the application has been disabled and there is no way to fix it?

juwaack68 · 05-06-2008, 12:21 PM

Thanks, Daphne! I have the Weather Underground site bookmarked already. Would be nice to have a separate icon for weather, but maybe the weather.com site has one.

John Clark · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

I just told them what Klotar said. I didn't tell them to delete it yet. But I did tell them to "close" it so it doesn't run their battery down looking for weather.

John Clark · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

Sad, very sad. I have used this almost every day since I got a BB.

Stinsonddog · 12:35 PM

I will contact the person that did the .75 upgrade and get their thoughts.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...l-version.html

Klotar · **OS:** 5.0.0.314

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Originally Posted by Stinsonddog

I will contact the person that did the .75 upgrade and get their thoughts.

That would indeed rock!

TonyMobile · 05-06-2008, 12:49 PM

Is Weather Eye the only remaining FREE application? Not bookmark - application.

jr956678 · 05-06-2008, 01:00 PM

I'm glad I found this thread - sort of. I had BBWeather on my 8110, removed it to try some other apps, and this morning decided I wanted to go back to it but I got this same error - MULTIPLE times as I loaded different source code and tried different ways to get it to work to no avail. Now I know why.

But it's truly sad - BBWeather is a great app and unless someone can resurrect it, it's a great loss to the community.

MrKyoo · 05-06-2008, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyMobile

Is Weather Eye the only remaining FREE application? Not bookmark - application.

YWeather is also free.

Baz7520 · 05-06-2008, 01:21 PM

Thanks MrKyoo

For those interested link to YWeather: blog.emerick.org » YWeather

TonyMobile · 05-06-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MrKyoo

YWeather is also free.

Thank you for that.

Stinsonddog · 05-06-2008, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Baz7520

Thanks MrKyoo

For those interested link to YWeather: blog.emerick.org » YWeather

Works great for a single location. Wonder if they will add multiple locations.

dmiller1856 · **Re: -** 05-06-2008, 02:46 PM

Since this affects BBToday as well, can anyone suggest a comparable app to replace BBToday? I don't care so much for stocks but sports scores would be nice in their place. I liked having everything nice and tidy in one place for a quick glance like that.

zerog46 · 05-06-2008, 02:51 PM

As above Weather Eye works well and the short term weather is now working.

John Clark · **OS:** 4.6.1.250

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Originally Posted by dmiller1856

Since this affects BBToday as well, can anyone suggest a comparable app to replace BBToday? I don't care so much for stocks but sports scores would be nice in their place. I liked having everything nice and tidy in one place for a quick glance like that.

Pocket Day is what you are looking for. It's not free, though.

MadDog_ · 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by zerog46

Weather Eye works very well.

www.weyebb.pelmorex.com/BlackBerry

Seems like the right link is weyebb.pelmorex.com/blackberry

MrKyoo · 05-06-2008, 03:54 PM

WeatherEye - http://weyebb.pelmorex.com/BlackBerry/

MadDog_ · 05-06-2008, 04:35 PM

R.I.P. I used BB Weather everyday and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to work. Why do all the good apps have to die so young?

John Clark · 05:29 PM

I'm guessing this is why BBWeather doesn't work. Weather.com has their own mobile application. It supports multiple profiles and you can search by city name along with some other nice features. It's pretty nice. One catch....$34.99 per year. It does have a 5 session free trial.

Description

Download Here

I can't believe Google doesn't have something for us for free!

Stinsonddog · 05-06-2008, 05:38 PM

We need someone to recompile BBWeather with the Yahoo weather API

Yahoo! Weather

blakeatl · **OS:** 4.5.0.102

Sad sad day. I hope they can bring this app back to life because it's one of the best plus it's free.

akosnitzky · **OS:** 5.0.0.273

Wirelessly posted (Verizon 8830)

Jeesh.... YWeather is giving me an update from an hor ago.

supercat25 · 05-06-2008, 08:14 PM

Worldmate live also has a weather feature in it. Not as slick as bbweather of course.