Cannot send Photos larger or equal to 8 MB in size

[reieRMeister]

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• This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

When adding photos from my Android 10 device all images larger or equal to 8 MB in size are not rendered and when selected they are not sent.

Steps to reproduce

• in conversation view click on + right next to message input field
• see the list of photos below message input field

Actual result: scroll through the list of photos and notice some empty tiles where images should be shown
Expected result: scroll through the list of photos and notice all images are shown (even those larger than 8 MB)

Device info

Device: Motorola G8 Plus
Android version: 10 (20e48, QPI30.28-Q3-28-26)
Signal version: 4.72.5

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/10f78b2a85da75561840fbdd91ab448ac9f527cd5569793b3096cec71ccf5506

[reieRMeister]

A side node to this: When resizing the images that cannot be shown/sent with a third party app the resized images are visible and can be sent.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.

[qftlzxfz]

Hello, this issue still exists in Signal version 6.3.6. The photo is not displayed in the preview and cannot be resized from within Signal (as other images and photos). When sending the message with a large photo, it is not delivered.

[alex-signal]

Hi! Unfortunately the linked debug log has expired. If other folk are encountering this issue, please submit a new debug log and link it here!

[qftlzxfz]

Thank you, Alex. Are you saying that you cannot reproduce the issue? I have large .heic images on my mobile and is completely reproducible.

When in the Android gallery and choosing share with Signal, the preview does not show and Signal fails with the delivery.

When in Signal and using the + button to choose an image, the thumbnails do not even show.

[cody-signal]

@qftlzxfz are you able to reproduce the issue with non-HEIC images? HEIC and our image loading dependency do not get along and fail often regardless of size unfortunately.

https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+heic

[qftlzxfz]

Hello Cody! I tried with a couple of images of various sizes. All JPEG images load fine, even a 13.9 MB one (9248 × 6936 pixels), that I converted from HEIC. From the 4 HEIC images only the smallest (3.9 MB; 2604 × 4624 pixels) is handled correctly by Signal. So, it is not only the file size, but the combination of HEIC and file size. Shall I open a new ticket?

[Ged-fi]

@cody-signal I ran across this issue on a new Sony Xperia 5 V, which frequently produces photos bigger than 8 MB. This makes it impossible to view or share such pictures.

Attaching a rather inconspicuous picture of a beer can to demonstrate. To reproduce, you might have to use an SD card as well - not sure if that's related, though.

Edit: This is not a HEIC file, but a standard jpeg directly from the camera.

[manuc66]

Hello

I have this bug too, here is the log https://debuglogs.org/android/7.5.2/de22611031a58ee81a2d58516eaa5d42c88a27feca79f37abcd15def312c5f52

If you need you can try to send this picture https://mega.nz/file/PQ433T5R#boBL2QeEcwRZL2CxMD-WjO-xA-5l8zt4QFnxDxviNH0

I would spot this as related to the issue:

[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.RecyclableBufferedInputStream$InvalidMarkException: Mark has been invalidated, pos: 338 markLimit: 5242880
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.RecyclableBufferedInputStream.reset(RecyclableBufferedInputStream.java:344)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.data.InputStreamRewinder.rewindAndGet(InputStreamRewinder.java:31)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.ImageReader$InputStreamImageReader.getImageOrientation(ImageReader.java:205)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.Downsampler.decodeFromWrappedStreams(Downsampler.java:330)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.Downsampler.decode(Downsampler.java:285)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.Downsampler.decode(Downsampler.java:222)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.StreamBitmapDecoder.decode(StreamBitmapDecoder.java:62)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.bitmap.StreamBitmapDecoder.decode(StreamBitmapDecoder.java:18)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodePath.decodeResourceWithList(DecodePath.java:92)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodePath.decodeResource(DecodePath.java:70)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodePath.decode(DecodePath.java:59)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.LoadPath.loadWithExceptionList(LoadPath.java:76)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.LoadPath.load(LoadPath.java:57)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.runLoadPath(DecodeJob.java:539)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.decodeFromFetcher(DecodeJob.java:503)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.decodeFromData(DecodeJob.java:489)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.decodeFromRetrievedData(DecodeJob.java:434)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.onDataFetcherReady(DecodeJob.java:399)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.SourceGenerator.onDataReadyInternal(SourceGenerator.java:211)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.SourceGenerator$1.onDataReady(SourceGenerator.java:101)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.data.LocalUriFetcher.loadData(LocalUriFetcher.java:45)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.SourceGenerator.startNextLoad(SourceGenerator.java:95)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.SourceGenerator.startNext(SourceGenerator.java:88)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.runGenerators(DecodeJob.java:311)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.runWrapped(DecodeJob.java:277)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.run(DecodeJob.java:235)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.executor.GlideExecutor$DefaultThreadFactory$1.run(GlideExecutor.java:424)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
[7.5.2] [327  ] 2024-05-04 22:19:23.530 GMT+02:00 I ImageCompressionUtil: 	at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.executor.GlideExecutor$DefaultPriorityThreadFactory$1.run(GlideExecutor.java:383)

Given the exception message I would say that it's quite similar to this issue : bumptech/glide#4755