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This wallpaper will crash your Android phone: don’t try it.

An image of a lake, when set as a wallpaper on select Samsung and Google Pixel devices, causes the phone screen and the device to go nuts. Multiple users have verified the findings and provided speculations, yet no one knows exactly as to why. The bug is actually a rounding issue in the ImageProcessHelper class and has nothing to do with the concept of safe color space s color model. The original image (MD5: f96ea0f4c081b9cc15d77d7d547864e219 | SHA1: 24906e972db53c8b10dd630e186ce1afcfba005b ) can be seen below.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/this-wallpaper-will-crash-your-android-phone-don-t-try-it/

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