Pagination in category.php problems

Hi i’m trying to paginate the categories from the posts, the idea is that when the user selects for example category “uncategorized” the page display all uncategorized posts with numeric pagination. There is something that i’m missing because i did a lot of code modifications but i always get one of these two results:

– Selecting a category shows all the posts from all categories, also display pagination but if you click next page shows error 404

– Selecting a category shows the posts from that category but doesn’t display pagination

I read the codex, questions, guides but still cant get it to work, i’m very new to WP so it most be some noob miskate, any help is appreciated

Here is what i have right now:

category.php

<?php get_header();

$pagination = get_query_var('paged');
query_posts($pagination); 

 while (have_posts()) : the_post();
                                    get_template_part("blogmasonry");
                                endwhile; wp_numeric_pagination(); wp_reset_query();

get_footer(); ?>

functions.php –> the wp_numeric_pagination

function wp_numeric_pagination() {
    global $wp_query;

    $big = 999999999;
    $tag = '<div class="pagination">' . PHP_EOL;
    $tag .= paginate_links( array(
            'base'              => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
            'format'            => '?paged=%#%',
            'current'           => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
            'total'             => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
            'prev_next'         => True,
            'prev_text'         => __('?'),
            'next_text'         => __('?'),
        ) ) . PHP_EOL;
    $tag .= '</div>' . PHP_EOL;
    echo $tag;
}