It's a serious problem since the early version and never being solved.
Reloading of JS will quickly lead to this bug but it will always happen whether or not you do the reloading.
When you use back button to quit the app on android and re-launch it, the image will still not show. I think it is because Fresco will not be closed after you quit. It is running as long as your phone is on until you remove your app from the task manager of android.
This means your app will not show image after a period of time even if it doesn't have a lot of image to show.
Please give a high priority to this problem because it will never be production ready for react-native of android if the image will go away after a few times of uses.