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Don't worry, you can fearlessly view this photo on any mobile device. Nothing is going to happen. But if someone sends it to you and you have an Android phone, don't think of putting it as wallpaper. Several users have discovered that by doing so their phones go into a continuous charging loop, rendering the terminal unusable until a full reset is made

The ruling has been circulating in some forums on the network for several days. But how can a simple image do this? The explanation is a bit complex but the good news is that it is a known bug and it will be corrected in the next version of the operating system.

All digital images have what is known as a 'color space', a table that tells the operating system what colors are associated with each pixel that makes it up. There are standardized color spaces that are used very frequently. The usual thing in a JPEG image like the ones we see on the network is that it uses the sRGB color space.

This image has a different color space. This is generally not a problem. Converting an image from one color space to another is a trivial task. If Android 10, the current version of the operating system, detects that an image has a different color space, it simply converts it to sRGB and voila.

But in the case of this image the correction algorithm collides with a detail that it cannot interpret. When rounding some values ​​that takes place during the Android conversion it gets a number that it cannot process and SystemUI, the process of the interface of the Android operating system, crashes. Doing so, the phone runs SystemUI again, but having to display the wallpaper again, you encounter the same problem again.

It does not happen in all phones because part of the modifications that the different manufacturers make of their terminals may change some of these processes that control the user interface, but several users of Samsung and Pixel phones have discovered that the image effectively blocks their terminals. .

At the moment the only solution is to avoid this image as a wallpaper. The next version of the Android 11 operating system does not automatically convert wallpapers to the sRGB color space so this failure will not occur. For current versions, Google is already working on a security patch that fixes the problem.

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