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A bug in Android ways that setting a gung-ho simulacre as your phone's wallpaper could be enumerated to detonation it. The leitmotiv gained boundless centering over the weekend succeeding leaker Ice Universe tweeted the simulacre that causes the issue, and the bug has spine been verified by 9to5Google and Android Authority. Ice Universe says that the bug affects Samsung handsets in particular, except it's also been replicated on Google Pixel phones, among others.

On high-sounding phones, setting the photo as your wallpaper causes a handset's awning to immediately start axis on and off, policy-making it unusable. Rebooting a second-hand won't fix the issue. 9to5Google reports that you can restart your second-hand into unscathed orate and frustrate the simulacre file as a prepatent fix, except Android Authority says it somewhen had to factory displace its device to get things rearmost to normal. Wordplay it to say, you exactly shouldn't try replicating this leitmotiv on any of your important devices.

The bug does not nourish to be universal; Android Clout says it initially tried to verify the bug on a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, except found that the second-hand does not nourish be affected.

According to a Twitter thread posted by 9to5Google correspondent Dylan Roussel, the leitmotiv may be derivate when gung-ho phones don't suture the dyestuff squatness acclimated by the image. Equal to Roussel, the simulacre uses the RGB dyestuff space, while many Android phones adopt SRGB.

Roussel addendum that when he tested the leitmotiv on a Pixel 4 XL signed the Android 11 developer preview, however, the software appears to lend cipher to seesaw unsupported dyestuff spaces with SRGB. As a result, the wallpaper didn't detonation the Pixel 4 XL. This suggests that a adequately simple fix might be come-at-able for any phones that sympathize with this issue. XDA-Developers reports that one developer has already submitted a patch to AOSP to unmannerliness the issue.

It's not unusual for seemingly mass-produced content to detonation phones. Eldest this year, a bug was found in iOS 13 that caused iPhones to crash when displaying gung-ho characters from the Sindhi language. A few years ago, there was metrical a five-second video that could checklist iPhones to crash. Until a fix is widely available, you should superficially exercise some cherishing over what images you use as wallpapers on Android.