Photos in Camera Roll are just black

SOLUTION: move the pics from the DCIM folder on your phone to a photo folder on your computer with which your iPhone syncs. they will no longer be in your camera roll. do you really need them to remain in your camera roll?

I have had variations on this whole photo syncing issue for weeks now and have had four genius bar visits with no luck so far. I had previously been shutting down my iPhone with every sync and when I start it back up the photos are in their proper places with no black boxes... but it's kind of annoying to shut down after each sync (I tend to sync once a day). I just attempted the "kill app" thing where I removed the Photos app from the multitasking tray after double-clicking the home button and then synced, and that seemed to work as well. It's only really a "temporary" solution I suppose, and Apple really needs to figure this out so they can issue an update ASAP... it'd be much appreciated.

Thanks, this worked for me on an iPhone 4.

if you take screenshots of your photos that would mess up the order of the photos, the resolutions and the Geotag 😟

I'm having the same issue by the way...

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/leandrus/photo.png

HiHi,

I just found this one => http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2513258&tstart=0

Hope it help =)

OK, I JUST SOLVED THIS PROBLEM. I DID THE 4.1 UPDATE AND ALL MY PICS SHOWED UP AS BLACK SQUARES THAT WHEN TAPPED ON THEY APPEARED, BUT WHEN VIEWING THEM ALL AS A SET, THEY WERE BLACK. IF YOU ARE ON A MAC COMPUTER, GO TO THE "IMAGE CAPTURE" APPLICATION AND IMPORT ALL THE PHOTOS FROM YOUR PHONE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER INTO A FOLDER (WHICH I LABELED "iPhone Pics" AND THEN DELETE THEM ALL BY HAND FROM YOUR PHONE. THEN, GO UNDER THE IPHONE TAB IN ITUNES WHEN YOUR PHONE IS PLUGGED IN, AND GO TO PHOTOS, AND SYNC THAT FOLDER YOU JUST IMPORTED YOUR PICS TOO. THEN IT WORKS PERFECT, AND IT RESTORES IT TO WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE 🙂 HOPE THIS HELPS EVERYONE. AS FAR AS A PC GOES, JUST TRY AND GET YOUR PHOTOS ONTO YOUR COMPUTER ANYWAY YOU CAN, AND DELETE THEM AND RESYNC THAT FOLDER BACK ONTO THE PHONE.

OK, I JUST SOLVED THIS PROBLEM. I DID THE 4.1 UPDATE AND ALL MY PICS SHOWED UP AS BLACK SQUARES THAT WHEN TAPPED ON THEY APPEARED, BUT WHEN VIEWING THEM ALL AS A SET, THEY WERE BLACK. IF YOU ARE ON A MAC COMPUTER, GO TO THE "IMAGE CAPTURE" APPLICATION AND IMPORT ALL THE PHOTOS FROM YOUR PHONE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER INTO A FOLDER (WHICH I LABELED "iPhone Pics" AND THEN DELETE THEM ALL BY HAND FROM YOUR PHONE. THEN, GO UNDER THE IPHONE TAB IN ITUNES WHEN YOUR PHONE IS PLUGGED IN, AND GO TO PHOTOS, AND SYNC THAT FOLDER YOU JUST IMPORTED YOUR PICS TOO. THEN IT WORKS PERFECT, AND IT RESTORES IT TO WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE 🙂 HOPE THIS HELPS EVERYONE. AS FAR AS A PC GOES, JUST TRY AND GET YOUR PHOTOS ONTO YOUR COMPUTER ANYWAY YOU CAN, AND DELETE THEM AND RESYNC THAT FOLDER BACK ONTO THE PHONE.