Dozens of Android phone owners are reporting on social media that a picture featuring a lake, a cloudy sunset and a green shoreline is crashing their handsets when used as wallpaper.
Several brands seem to be affected, including Samsung and Google's Pixel. The bug makes the screen turn on and off continuously. In some cases a factory reset is required. The BBC does
not recommend trying it out. Samsung is due to roll out a maintenance update on 11 June. The BBC has contacted Google for comment but not yet had a response. A tweet on the issue has had thousands of likes and re-tweets, with some reporting that their phone has also been affected.
Tech journalist Bogdan Petrovan at Android Authority
said the bug did not affect his Huawei 20 Pro but it did cause a Google Pixel 2 to malfunction. "After setting the image in question as a wallpaper, the phone immediately crashed. It attempted to reboot, but the screen would constantly turn on and off, making it impossible to pass the security screen," he noted. Restarting the device in safe mode (by holding down the volume button during boot-up) did not fix the issue." It appears to affect some but not all devices running the latest version of the Android operating system, Android 10.
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