An android developer explains the weird wallpaper crush bug that causes endless samsung and google devices to become unusable without a factory reset. We were able to confirm that samsung is indeed working on a fix for the bizarre android bug that can lead to a smartphone being stuck in a bootloop after applying an unsupported wallpaper. The reason we will not know except developers but most likely to improve performance and to prevent buggs issues. This cursed wallpaper crashes any android smartphone. Android smartphone owners have been cautioned about a glitch in the mobile operating system thatll leave. Following further investigation this.
Image extension can simply be added to those files. For now resetting the device seems only viable option to bring the phone back to life. Cursed android wallpaper is crashing smartphones including samsung galaxy paul monckton senior contributor opinions expressed by forbes contributors are their own. Heads up android users. Android 10 doesnt support anymore motion effects. Wallpaper that bricks android phones.
Samsung huawei pixel users beware. It is not always a text that can brick a phone. And here too as suggested above datasystemusers0 wallpaper wallpaperlock wallpaperlockorig wallpaperorig. For reasons that arent entirely clear this simple image is causing some android phone to crash and then enter a state of being soft bricked when the image is set as a wallpaper. The image seen above crashes not just galaxy devices but many other android smartphones as well. A wallpaper is crashing android phones especially samsung phones efe udin may 31 2020 smartphones are susceptible to attacks and these attacks could come in any form.
In case youve missed the original story images that return a histogram value higher than 255 will exceed the srgb color space supported by android os resulting in crashing or even bootlooping. In android 712 i found them here but they do not have extension. A known samsung insider recently discovered one of the most bizarre android bugs in recent memory one that bootloops your device after a wallpaper change. Google admitted an oversight just like the inablity for 3rd party launchers not working until a patch. A malicious image is roaming around that bricks most android phones upon setting as wallpaper.