Anyone wants to be aware of the weather forecast, because business planning can depend on it directly. But sometimes the weather gadget may not work on a stationary computer, laptop, or mobile device (“Failed to connect to the service” - this is the most common error). What to do in this case? There is a solution.
The weather gadget on the computer has stopped working. What is the reason?
First of all, when determining the reasons for the failure of this service, you need to pay attention to the system in which the failure occurred and the type of application used.
For example, weather gadgets for Windows or mobile systems can often fail only because they disable determining the current location of the owner. In a sense, a failure can also be attributed to software components if third-party software is used on the computer. But the "native" Windows service (especially in the seventh version of the system) can cause failures for another reason, which will be discussed later.
Why doesn't the Weather gadget work on a mobile device?
Mobile devices, as a rule, do not have an integrated weather module. At least on Android or iOS, they are definitely not. Therefore, the user installs third-party software. This is the weather gadget. "Failed to connect to the service" - this is a warning that some software component has failed.
Quite often, such failures are observed in applications like Gismeteo. Sometimes a program, with the satellite geolocation detection module turned off or the GPS connection deactivated, may incorrectly indicate the current location. There are really two such modules in Android devices, so you should make a difference between them. In addition, installing unofficial firmware can play a trick on the user, causing conflicts between the services involved.
Resolving a problem by setting the date
But let's see how to fix the problem when the weather gadget does not work. “Failed to connect to the service” - an error generated by Windows-systems. Correctly at the initial level, oddly enough, you can primitively edit the date and time settings. No one can say for sure why everything works after that, but, apparently, this is due to the program code of the OS.
We go into the standard "Control Panel" and select the section of regional standards. Set the country on the location tab, and change the current settings in the format menu. In general, when there is an active Internet connection, you can use a full reset. But this does not always help.
It is better to change the system timer settings in the BIOS settings. If for this reason the weather gadget does not work, the situation is such that even the operating system’s own service determines the time and date, even with the correct values set, with reference to the primary input / output system. In the BIOS, we use the initial tab of the general settings, where the parameters are changed. In stationary computers, you can perform a full reset if you remove the battery on the motherboard for 30 seconds.
Flush cache
Sometimes the problem that the built-in Windows weather gadget does not work or the application does not work in the mobile system can be solved by clearing the program cache and browser.
With browsers in Windows systems, everything is simple: you just need to call the appropriate settings section and delete the data. In mobile devices, it’s better not to fix the problem manually, but to use programs like CCleaner, which are automated optimizers (although this approach is also suitable for Windows systems).
Editing XML Settings File
Finally, we’ll touch upon a situation where, for some reason, the weather gadget does not work on Windows. “Failed to connect to the service” - a message with the first sign that sometimes a cardinal intervention in the settings of the functioning of the system can not do.
First you need to set the display of hidden files and folders in the menu of the standard "Explorer" view or any other file manager, then in the user directory go to the AppData folder and through the directory tree get to the Cache folder, in which there is a Config.xml file. Editing content is done using Notepad, where nothing needs to be changed. It is enough to simply re-save the document, having previously set the system date of the years one hundred in advance. Next, go to the weather gadget and in the location graph we change the current configuration to the value “All”.
Then open the properties of the Config.xml file with a right click and set the “Read Only” attribute. For fidelity, you can reboot the system. After that, the weather gadget will work without problems - you just need to set your locality in the settings.
Instead of a total
It remains to add that installing third-party weather gadgets can be quite elementary. The only question is who exactly should be preferred. The installation process itself does not differ from the standard one.
As for eliminating the health problem, it all depends on the system. If the failure is associated with primitive settings for the date, time or current location, then everything is simple, even with regard to mobile systems. In the case of Windows, you have to work hard. However, the proposed option should not cause difficulties. The main aspect here is to find the custom AppData folder, which by default is not displayed in Windows (it is believed that this is a system directory, the contents of which are not recommended to be changed). In fact, it’s okay to just open the settings file and save it without making any changes. This will not affect the operation of the system in any way.
Finally, if the problem with the above reasons is not related, most likely you will have to check the communication settings. This applies to the default TCP / IP protocol. It may be necessary to disable the use of proxies for local addresses, set to obtain an IP or DNS address in automatic mode. There may also be problems with the server receiving the request for the return response, and the weather service declared by Microsoft does not always work stably. So here nothing depends on the end user.