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Islam NEGM
Islam NEGM

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Can a Wallpaper Break Your Android Phone?

Summary

A bug found in android color space converter software that causes the conversion for a certain pixel of a photo buggy and causes the converter software to crash. The issue becomes more critical if you tried to set this picture as a background, thus the converter will be triggered each time and also fail, so basically, you will stuck in an infinite loop of failures without fault management. In the end, you will have to erase/wipe your phone to restore its functionality.

Fix?

In Android 11 this should be fixed as per the video.

Link to the Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

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