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A 'cursed' wallpaper could crash your phone with its color profile



Today there is a cursed wallpaper making the rounds and crashing the Android phones of fool idiotic enough to not heed the warnings that accompany the image,seen to the right.It's a pretty sunset on a lake surrounded by mountains and forest.The code hidden in the coding for this image is apparently an improperly coded color profile and when you set it as wallpaper on an android phone,it will cause the Android system UI to crash.


The image has been making the rounds across social media because we Android nerds are a curious lot an when we hear something will mess up our phones,We apparently take that as a personal challenge and has been wrecking havoc on phones of the idiots stupid enough to set the original image as their wallpaper. If you screenshot the image or edit the image in an way,it strips out and overwrites the problematic color profile data,So once you tamper with it,it becomes harmless,but to save all the curious cats out there     
  • This image can crash your phone 
  • It goes beyond the Samsung phones.Even the Androi Emulators get effected due to this improperly coded color profile 
if you already set the wallpaper,your phone is probably either stuck in a bootloop or will kick back to the bootlaoder.In this case you have a few ways of potentially fixing your phone 
Solutions:
  • #1:If your phone will boot into Safe mood,you may have just enough time to set the wallpaper back to something normal and safe.
  • #2:If your phone won't boot to safe mode but you have a phone that has a custom recovery on it not something most have,but if you use a custom ROM or root your phone,you probably have one installed ,go into custom recovery app and purge the wallpaper data to reset the wallpaper back to its default
  • #3:If all else fails,go into the bootloader and factory reset your phone.Hope you had everything backed up

For some phones, you can reboot into safe mode and reset the wallpaper to something else, but for others, you'll have to go into the bootloader and completely factory reset the phone.
  • There is a photo of a sunset making the rounds because when set as a wallpaper,it will brick some Android phones
  • The image has an improperly coded Google color profile,which causes the Android System UI to crash form an out of bounds error. phone
  • For some Phones,you can reboot into safe mode and reset the wallpaper to something else,but for others,you'll have to go into the bootloader and completely factory reset the




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