A landscape photo from the Internet causes permanent crashes on Android smartphones if you set it as a wallpaper.
Android: This image can crash your smartphone! – The most important thing at the beginning:
There are currently warnings against setting a specific photo as the wallpaper on your Android smartphone. If you do this anyway, the cell phone will react with permanent crashes.
New wallpaper? Better not!
There is currently a warning about a photo circulating on the Internet.
This is a landscape photo that was taken in portrait format and is therefore perfect as a wallpaper for your smartphone. However, it is better not to use it as it causes a permanent crash on Android smartphones.
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Report from a user on Twitter
Apparently the image contains incorrect data that causes the crash. A user reported on Twitter that editing the colors probably eliminates the unwanted effect. It can therefore be assumed that incorrect color coding could be the cause. Samsung devices are affected.
When I tried to upload the original image (left) to Weibo, I found that its color to change (right). At this time, the image became harmless, but when uploaded to twitter, the original image still does not change color, still harmful. So I suspect it may be related to color gamut pic.twitter.com/0A1PlUqlpv
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) May 31, 2020
However, the error can also be reproduced on Google Pixel devices with this image. So – in conjunction with this picture – it should be located directly on Android.
solution to avoid
Samsung was informed about this problem in mid-May and has fixed the error. The solution will be rolled out with the next update.
Until then (or in general), you should refrain from setting images from the Internet as your screen background.
Source: t-online.de
Article image: Shutterstock / By Dean Drobot
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