This wallpaper image might crash your Android, so avoid it all costs

[Chris Smith]

• An Android wallpaper is enough to crash handsets made by Samsung and other handset makers, and that’s thanks to an improper Google color profile.
• The crash might force you to restore the phone to factory settings, which means you’d lose all the data in the process.
• There is a way to save the sunset image and use it as a wallpaper, and it involves editing the photo or taking a screenshot of it.

We usually warn you to avoid specific messages on iPhone that can crash your device. It’s usually a string a strange character, a perfect storm if you will, that can make the handset unresponsive, and those issues can be fixed most of the time. It’s now time to look at a similar problem that’s affecting Android devices, an image that can crash your handset if you use it as a wallpaper. Unlike the iPhone SMS bug, this one only affects your device if you set that image up as a wallpaper yourself, so you can’t run into it accidentally.

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