None of my widgets are updating.
None of my widgets are updating. I first noticed it with my podcatcher’s widget, but this screenshot illustrates it very well. Note that the time in the world time widget bears no relationship to the current time, and the Google Now widget is showing information from 4 days ago. (Current date and time are at the top of the screen, using Lightning’s Dynamic Text.)
Is this a bug, or it there some obscure setting somewhere that I’ve missed?
D5 Creation
I have seen this before, but don’t have the issue currently. May be an effect of low free memory, if I remember correctly. Maybe someone else can chime in.
I doubt it’s a memory issue. None of the three widgets have updated since they were put on the desktop. I’ll check on my other device which has buckets of memory and does less work than my primary phone though.
Maybe temporarily add a LL dynamic text to show Heap Free?
Chris Chastain Done. It currently says 129MB, with Max Heap at 192MB, and the widgets still show identical content to the screenshot from 21 hours ago – which is now 5 days out of date.
FYI, it’s a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. Device memory is currently showing as
System 722MB of RAM
Apps 533MB of RAM
Free 521MB of RAM
Unfortunately there is no magical “Fix widgets issue” setting, the best I can suggest is to make a backup, uninstall the app, reinstall and reload the backup. I know this happen sometimes but I lost hope to understand what’s wrong and find a workaround 🙁 Something is broken in the widget manager and sometimes clearing its data helps. I am sorry if I am not of a great help on this…
Pierre Hébert Stopping the Lightning Manager processes from the System Apps Running menu, and force stopping the app from the System Apps Downloaded menu has refreshed them (less of a faff than uninstalling and reinstalling, although I did take a backup first, just in case).
I’ll keep an eye on them to see whether it’s just created a new snapshot, but so far (in the first couple of minutes) they’re updating.
Fingers crossed!
I have the same issue. S5 whit LP. I:
Try what worked for me as described above).
It’s been fine since then.
Julie Wills that’s seems too easy to be a long term solution, but I hope this will fix the issue for cristian aguilar too.
Pierre Hébert Sometimes, easy is good 😉
Julie Wills where I can find this options?
cristian aguilar In your System Settings. The precise location may vary depending on your phone (especially if you have a Samsung!), but you’re looking for
Apps / Manage Apps.
Scroll right / left (probably) to find Running tab. Scroll down looking for Lightning Launcher to stop the processes.
Then scroll left/right again to get to the Downloaded tab and find LL again to Clear Cache and Force Stop.