Why his image crash the android phones



 If you have even seen an image which represents a beautiful cotton candy sunset over a lake surrounded by trees, mountains, and then your brain responds, was that even possible and how was this picture extremely beautiful or attractive?


But, unfortunately this image of a sunset over a lake is causing malfunction mainly Samsung devices and Google Pixels phones, when they set this as wallpaper. The bug makes the screen turn on and t


Off continuously and in some cases factory reset is required. This issue suddenly came up last month. Twitter user @universeice, on May 31, saying the photo was dangerous to Samsung phones and will cause your phone to crash. Soon, similar replies or comments began, And a video, @mfakhrihdnpng, showed off how the glitch work.According to an independent analysis from the BC, the colours in the image are quite literally shaking things up.


KenM and Dave Llodge, two researchers at the cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, told the BBC. 


"As digital photographs have improved in quality, phones need to check what the image 'colour space' is to work out how to display it properly," they said.


"It's how a phone knows how to display exactly the right shade of green, for example.


"There are different ways of defining the colour space. Some spaces have specialist uses in graphic design, so sometimes you'll see images that aren't in the usual 'Standard RGB' format. It's also possible to deliberately create images that have more colour information than some devices can handle.


"What's happened here is that the way some phones deal with these cases has gone wrong.


"The phone crashes because it doesn't know how to deal with it correctly, and the software developers probably hadn't considered this might happe

Editor: Sakshi Bisht Added on: 2020-06-12 19:28:02 Total View:401







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