Viewing photos - screen goes dark?

[XPDom]

Hi,

Whenver I look at the photos I have taken, they stay bright for a millisecond and then go dark.. why is this? I have checked that there is no auto-correct going on and have tried turning the auto-brightness of the screen off and it made no difference?

Thanks for any advice.

[armandeus]

so what ive noticed - i have a bunch of photos on MicroSD card and on internal memory (DCIM folders).

when i just open Photos programm from the programm menu, it is working ok with no problems.

BUT when i click any picture (no matter - on SD card or internal memory) using file explorers (Total Commander, ES File Explorer, even stock File Commander) and choose to open by Photos application - it shows bright for a half second and then the picture (and not even the ALL SCREEN because notification bar is still bright!) darkens :(...if i touch the screen and swipe a little then the picture goes bright again, but when i lift the finger - it darkens the picture again ... why that Photos app is doing so?

If i choose to open picture using different app - everything is fine...

Is there a solution? Or should i just not use that stock picture viewer :(... im not even able to uninstall it

huh

[_alexdon_]

Strange,sorry if you said already,but are you on kit kat?Maybe there is something with that app.How about if you try to clear data and force stop it?

[armandeus]

Yes ive updated to KitKat

and i already tried to force stop and clear data for programm called ALBUM...

and in the APPS - ALL programm list there is no programm called Photos... so i cant see a way to clear data for that specific program :(... maybe it is named differently in the ALL applications list?

[_alexdon_]

It seems the app is from google.

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z1-Z1s/Album-App-no-longer-default-after-taking-photos/m-p/6240...

This user said how he managed to clear defaults for it.

[XPDom]

Exactly as Armandeus describes... If I use the Album app I can view photos fine. If I open the 'Photos' app the images go dark within a second of viewing. What is the solution? I can't even see this 'Photos' app in the app setting list?

[_alexdon_]

After you use photos,just tap on recent task manager,tap longer on photos and select app info.From there,you could clear data,clear defaults etc.

[XPDom]

Thanks Alexdon that worked - can now view in album and edit in google photos - best of both worlds.

[masterpro]

I have the same problem, so i open using the album app.

AM

[_alexdon_]

@XPDom,great.