Camera roll photos are grey

My camera roll is showing a lot of blank grey photos. Every time that I sync my phone to iPhoto, and I delete the photos from the camera roll using iPhoto, it leaves behind one of these grey boxes. The only photos that actually show, as seen in this screen shot, are photos that I have not yet synced to iPhoto. As soon as I sync them to iPhoto and delete them, they will turn to grey boxes. I have tried restarting my phone, but it doesn't seem to help. Any ideas?

Hi
I had exactly the same proble and did the same tests.
Did you try this to fix the issue :
Delete following files in photodata directory (use with caution)
com.apple.photos.caches_metadata.plist
Photos.sqlite
PhotosAux.sqlite
(seen on : http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/how-to/how-to-fix-iphone-camera-roll-crash-and-phot os-turned-to-other-in-itunes/)
I used ifunbox to do this and it worked fine for me after many other attemps (resync, restore, reset ...)

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