A bug in Android means that it can suffice to crash a certain picture as the wallpaper of your phone. The problem gained widespread attention over the weekends after the Ice Universe leaker tweeted the picture causing the problem, and 9to5Google and Android Authority have since confirmed the issue. Ice Universe says that the bug especially affects Samsung devices and was repeated, among others, on Google Pixel phones.
Setting the photo as your wallpaper on affected handsets causes the handset screen to start on and off immediately and make it useless. The problem won't be solved by rebooting a phone.
9to5Google reports you can restart your phone and remove the image file as a possible fix, but Android Authorities say it has to reset its device in the factory to normalize matters. All you have to say is that you should definitely not replicate this problem on any of your important devices.
It does not seem universal; the Android Authority reports that the bug on a Huawei Mate 20 Pro has been initially checked but it has not seen that the smartphone is affected.
The issues may occur when other phones do not accept the color space that the image uses, according to a Twitter thread posted by 9to5Google user Dylan Roussel.
Roussel says that the photos use the RGB color field, while SRGB is preferred by many Android phones.
Roussel notes that the software appears to have included code to replace unsupported color spaces with SRGB when testing the problem on a Pixel 4 XL running Android 11 development preview. As a result, the pixel 4 XL was not crashed. This implies that any phone with this problem may have a relatively easy fix. XDA-Developers notes that an AOSP patch has already been issued by a developer to fix the issue.
It's not unusual for seemingly harmless crash telephone material.
Another bug that caused iPhones to crash was found in iOS 13 earlier this year when some Sindhi-language characters were displayed. There was also a five-second video a few years ago that would crash iPhones. You should probably be careful about what photos you use as wallpapers on Android before a patch is wide available.
