Several Android users are reporting on social media that a wallpaper featuring a landscape with mountains, clouds, and a lake in vivid colors is crashing their devices.
The issue seems to affect not a particular range of devices but handsets from companies, including Google and Samsung. It also appears to impact a large number of devices running the latest Android 10 version. This problem will be solved in Andriod 11.
The issue was brought to light by Ice Universe, the Chinese Twitter users known for technology leaks.
Experts believe the problem could lie within a bug that restricts the color space of the image causing the crash. Google provides support for the usual ‘Standard RGB' (sRGB) color format in its Android operating system. However, various images don't use the standard sRGB colorformat. Davide Bianco, a lead developer of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), has submitted a patch that supposedly resolves the issue. The patch describes, “The issue occurs when the user tries to set as wallpaper an image that is not sRGB. What happens is that variable y value is higher than the histogram bounds, making SysUI crash.” Simply put, the color is out of the supported range and the phone doesn’t know what to do.
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