Photo's Live tile active even though app turned off in background apps

[Onum]

Hi, I set up my Lumia 550 start screen with a double height/width photo's tile and stopped the live tile behaviour by preventing background running for the app. This worked fine and continued working after a recent update to build 10586.107.

Recently I accidentally un-pinned the photo's tile and it has become active again on re-pinning it even though it's still turned off in background apps.

I have tried toggling the setting/rebooting etc but I can only deactivate the live behaviour by shrinking the tile which I don't want.

Is it a bug introduced in the new build? (I noticed the camera icon in background apps is a blank blue box, so maybe..) - please don't tell me it's by design :unhappy:

Any ideas as to a fix/workaround? Thanks

 

[realwarder]

It may be updating when you go into the camera app as that has the photo preview which relates to photos. So it may not be updating in the background truly. Or does it change overnight?

Note that 218 is the latest build though and for me it fixes so many things (including some blank tile issues). So I would suggest getting that update first and verifying it isn't already fixed.

If not, use the Feedback tool to report these issues.

 

[Onum]

It was updating the image every few seconds in the normal way.

Anyway I found a fix, set the app tile settings to display a single photo but then not selecting a photo forces the tile to display as a static image of the app icon.

 

[hprvez]

It selects some pictures and switch between them constantly, but always the same pictures, until you start the pictures app. Background tasks management has always bren bugged in wp/wm anyways

 

[Maurizio Troso]

It selects some pictures and switch between them constantly, but always the same pictures, until you start the pictures app. Background tasks management has always bren bugged in wp/wm anyways

That's design, not bug. Live Tiles cache a portion of video ram and use it, till new data pushes (as incoming messages or weather news, etc.)
You can leave a feedback for pushing a change