OpticalLimits

A very strange bug with the a6700

stoppingdown

All of a sudden, the back monitor stops working with the live view. If I bring up the menu, it works. If I force the back monitor excluding the EVF, nothing changes (so it's not a hw problem with the eye sensor). If I reset factory settings, everything is fine. At this point I can load my personal settings that I had previously saved. It happened me twice; the last yesterday (obviously when I needed the back monitor for flowers), but this time after restoring my settings it stops working again.

MLonlooker

A sticky button ?

KaileyWaelchi

Since you restored and everything worked, then the error came back when loading the personal config → that file may be corrupted or contain a setting that is incompatible with the current firmware of the device.

watsicagaylord

stoppingdown wrote
All of a sudden, the back monitor stops working with the live view. If I bring up the menu, it works. If I force the back monitor excluding the EVF, nothing changes (so it's not a hw problem with the eye sensor). If I reset factory settings, everything is fine. At this point I can load my personal settings that I had previously saved. It happened me twice; the last yesterday (obviously when I needed the back monitor for flowers), but this time after restoring my settings it stops working again [size=small][font=Arial]fnf[/font][/size]

That sounds frustrating! It's nice that resetting and restoring settings temporarily resolves the issue, but it appears that something in your saved settings is causing the problem. Perhaps try loading a minimum or default profile first to see if the problem persists, then gradually reintroduce your customized preferences. I hope it gets fixed soon!

stoppingdown

Fortunately I can confirm it can be always solved by factory reset and then reloading the previously saved configuration, so the trick is to always have an up-to-date backup. But I must add that the bug has not been occurring for quite a long time now.