When used as home screen widget, some updates done only after screen unlocked

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add dashclock as widget on home screen
2. Add a battery extension or weather extension
3. Notice no updates occur to widget except for clock
4. Lock and unlock home screen and notice updates now show up

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I am expecting the extensions to display updates such as battery percentage or 
temp change as they happen. Instead, I have to lock and unlock the screen for 
this to occur.

What version of the product are you using?
1.0

Which device and Android version are you experiencing this issue on?
Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 with stock Android 4.2.1

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by luciano....@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2013 at 9:33

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Very fair concern. The traedeoff I made was to not update too frequently 
because it could use a lot of resources and have a negative battery impact. A 
status widget in my opinion should NOT have battery implications so I decided 
against too-frequent updates.

Original comment by roman.nurik on 12 Feb 2013 at 9:35

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This same issue also appears to happen with the dashclock extension for Press, 
and for Gmail after reading posts / emails and exiting the application the 
widget only updates after locking and unlocking. Is it possible to make it 
update whenever the home screen is brought to the foreground?

Original comment by Matt.C.G...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2013 at 10:35

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I've also tried to use DC on the lock-screen and on the home screen, but I gave 
up.
Example why:
- I switch on the phone and see that there are new tweets.
- I click on the lock-screen to read the tweets.
- After reading the tweets and exiting the app the widget on the home screen 
still shows that I have new tweets.

That's unusable. Can't the widget watch the status-bar for changed 
notifications?

Original comment by peterbo...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2013 at 1:09