The issue is only cropping up for users using the original photo as the wallpaper and not for users who are taking a screenshot of the photo or downloading it from social media platforms
We recently got to hear that wallpaper was making devices crash and become unusable. Several Android smartphone users were reporting that a wallpaper that consisted of a landscape with mountains, clouds, and a lake was crashing their smartphones. Even the popular leaksters Ice Universe tweeted, warning users not to use the wallpaper.
The issue is mainly cropping up for people using Google and Samsung devices running Android 10. The affected users are not able to resolve the issue and the only fix as of now is to factory reset the smartphone. This means if you try this and face the issue, you will end up losing all of your personal data.
The issue is only cropping up for users using the original photo as the wallpaper and not for users who are taking a screenshot of the photo or downloading it from social media platforms like Weibo. YouTuber MrWhoseTheBoss in a recent video of his stated that this was happening due to a single pixel in the image, which was sending Android phones using the Google Image processing engine into an error loop.
He says this is happening due to Android restricting the color space to 255, as the operating system supports the Standard RGB (sRGB) format to display images, which can be capped at 255 luminance. The image was encoded in ProPhoto RGB format which has a wider range than sRGB, however, that is not the problem. The problem is with one pixel that was taking the image variables to 256 luminance and crashing the devices.
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