Wallpaper for Android can ruin your phone

It's a that you don't see everyday. The setting of a simple as wallpaper on your Android phone can actually destroy the device, pushing it into an infinite loop of reboots, eventually forcing you to do a hard reset.

The specific image that spoils the Androiod mobiles was shared on Twitter by Ice Universe , who explained that the wallpaper bug affects Samsung phones. However, it seems that more can be affected.

At this point, everything seems to be related to the color profile used by the image, which Android cannot read correctly, and ultimately encounters a fatal error and causes the device to reboot. It is not yet clear why some phones are affected, and others are not.

It is also quite interesting that the error is not new, but so far it has remained largely unexplored, since no one paid attention to it. A post to Google IssueTracker reveals that the problem was first reported in March 2018, more than two years ago, but a fix has not yet been released.

Phones running Android 11 will not be affected by the error, as they automatically convert unsupported color space to sRGB and support a wider range of colors.

Google has never acknowledged this as a bug, so the best suggestion is to avoid setting this image as wallpaper on your phone. Enough they've already had it because they didn't think it was possible, so if you really want to try it, at least don't do it in the main and definitely not without making a backup first.

But if you want to play and hang your phone then the only way to recover seems to be a complete factory reset. Although some say that they managed to boot their device in safe mode and then set a different image as wallpaper.

It goes without saying that we have not attached the image to this article, for obvious reasons, although you can see a screenshot in the Ice Universe tweet, which also includes a thumbnail of the wallpaper.

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Written by Dimitris

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