I cant access my photos in Gallery or Google Photos

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When I go to Google Photos or the Gallery App I get the following error message "Allow Photos (Gallery) to access photos media and files on your device?"
I then click on Allow and get the following" Screen overlay detected to change this permission setting,you first have to turn off the screen overlay from
Settings > Apps I then went to and did this rebooted the phone It show that these are off as instructed and when I go back to Photos or Gallery I still get the same error message.

The phone is an unlocked T-MobleS5 SM-G900T

HELP I need to access these photos
 

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Problem is solved.
I googled the problem and found this on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euhqEyCEHos

For me the removal of Clean Master was the solution. After I gave the apps permissions I reinstalled CM Lite and everything work as it should.

Before I get responses saying Clean Master is all kinds of evil I use it to hibernate apps and I am quite happy with it saving power and killing open background apps.