Recently, we’ve reported a very unusual malfunction happening to Android users after setting a certain image as a wallpaper.
Briefly, the phone immediately crashed and trying to reboot it was unsuccessful, as the screen was turning on and off. Trying to restart their smartphones in the safe mode also didn’t work.
Apparently, the pretty sunset on a lake surrounded by mountains wallpaper had an improperly coded color profile hidden in the coding of the image, so when you set it as a wallpaper on an Android phone it causes Android System UI to crash. Looks like the SystemUI only handles sRGB images for the wallpaper.
The good news is a fix is almost here, as Google and Samsung are both are making efforts to find fixes for the wallpaper bug.
According to a comment on Twitter addressing the issue, “the real problem is the way luminance is computed,” and the information comes from a Google representative, but it doesn’t mention when this fix will roll out.
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