Fragment in ViewPager using FragmentPagerAdapter is blank the second time it is viewed

I had the same issue. Changing the parent class of my PageAdapter from android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter to android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter solve my ViewPager display issue on "second time"!

I managed to solve this by replacing getFragmentManager() with getChildFragmentManager() in the parent fragment. This parent fragment was instancing an android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter in order to contain pageable (slideable) fragments, which requires a fragment manager in the constructor. To this constructor I passed the return value of getChildFragmentManager().

hackbod's link was key (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html#NestedFragments), which was found in this post Fragments within Fragments

To nest a fragment, simply call getChildFragmentManager() on the Fragment in which you want to add a fragment. This returns a FragmentManager that you can use like you normally do from the top-level activity to create fragment transactions.

for me i had to call this on my viewpager:

myViewPager.setSaveFromParentEnabled(false);

I had the issue where the viewpager was not refreshing and all i saw was a blank white screen where the fragments should be. I was passing in getChildFragmentManager but it did not help.