Signal-android: Image is half black when/after sending

[Nisc3d]

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• [x] I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
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• [x] This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

When sending an image it sometimes becomes half black, even when you open it in fullscreen. For other people the image is shown normally.

Steps to reproduce

• share in image to a signal contact or group over the gallery or over signal itself
• press the send button
• while sending it is half black and stays so after sending is finished

Actual result: The image is half black
Expected result: The image should be normal, like in the Android gallery

Screenshots

Device info

Device: Nokia 6
Android version: 9
Signal version: 4.65.2

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/b9d59ca33915df233e0d645d585c350ad04e88f9cdbb9bbf8071aac6e781a086

[Larx]

Similar problem, Samsung S7, Lineage 17.1: Here image is partially blurry, not black. Happens sometimes, not always.

[robo2bobo]

Same problem here. Its not consistent, it happens sometimes but not always.

I've asked my contacts if the image was received and they tell me its ok on their side. Maybe its just the thumbnail creation on the sending side that is broken.

[greyson-signal]

There's a duplicate somewhere of this, but I can't find it :/ But basically this is an issue with glide (our image library) mis-rendering something, and then caching that bad image. The image is sent correctly, just not rendered properly on the send side. You can go to the sysem app settings, clear your cache, and restart the app to see that it gets fixed. But yeah, gotta figure out what's happening here.

[bme13]

Think this is the one: #9082

[greyson-signal]

Thanks!

Closing as duplicate of #9082