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What wallpaper kills your phone. What wallpaper kills your phone. Well that is exactly what happened to hundreds of android and google phone owners when a prominent hacker tweeted out that there was a certain image on the internet that if uploaded as a wallpaper would kill your phone. Many of course went ahead and uploaded that image as their phones wallpaper much to their chagrin when their phones totally freaked out on them.

Wallpaper that kills your phone osaman bin ahmed disclaimer. This video gets pretty complex so get comfortable. You can delete wallpaper and wallpaperinfoxml located at datasystemusers0 by using file manager and your rogue wallpaper will be removed thus allowing you to turn on your phone normally.

If your bootloader is unlocked and you have a custom recovery installed you are in luck. Because of the peculiarities in how android displays images a certain color combination can brick your phone if you set it as your wallpaper. This is an issue in google phones samsung phones or any phone that uses the the stock android color utilities.

The issue was first discovered by ice universe who shared its finding on twitter. In some cases you have to do a factory reset or ma. The cursed wallpaper that crashes android phones finally explained.

It was on may 21 2020 that the user ice universe posted the mythical picture on twitter. Theres no way to leave this loop as even a reboot would keep the phone doing this after turning back on. Myrwhosetheboss explains in his videos.

Upon being set the device would crash and continually turns the screen on and off on the lockscreen. Setting a specific image as wallpaper can cause some android phones to crash and become unable to reboot. When the pixel is 256 theres an error and android kills the process app in which the error occured.

A warning that very few took seriously. And thats exactly what happened when user aticeuniverse tweeted about an image that reportedly could ruin your phone. In what can be described as a truly mysterious phenomenon an image of a picturesque lake when set as wallpaper on select samsung and google pixel devices causes the phone screen and the device.

Original image by gaurav agrawal.