Impossible to change background image

For some unknown reason, my phone refuses to set a new background image (from my pictures folder), although I did it already in the past.

I go to Settings, then “Background and style” (translated from french) → “change background” → My pictures → Camera → I select an image, then it says “Impossible to load background image: the image is corrupted or inaccessible” (also translated from french).

I initially thought that maybe the settings app doesn’t have permission to access the camera pictures, but after checking, it seems to be allowed.

Is there anything I should try/check/report that would help sorting this out?

Thanks a lot for any help
Cyril

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I’ve done some more tests: I can change back to one of the predefined images, and then change again to the original JPEG file I was using, but if I select another JPEG (both taken with the phone’s camera) in the same folder (Documents/) I get the error. It looks like file system corruption, but I can still load that image using e.g. Gallery and it works perfectly. This is why I suspect there is a bug in the background image preview system.

I think that it could possibly be that the system can resist an image in the Documents/ folder.

Please can you try taking a photo, perhaps fairly low resolution, don’t move or manipulate it in any way … its location is expected as /DCIM/camera/ (or very similar) … are you able (as a test) to set this image as your wallpaper ?

I think you misread me: both images (the one that works and the one that doesn’t) are in the Documents/ folder.

I tried to use an image from the DCIM folder (from the camera) and it doesn’t work.

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