A lake with placid waters, among the tops of the snowy mountains, and a spectacular sky at sunset with the rays of the sun that filter in the clouds.This image, apparently relaxing and "harmless", could actually prove to be lethal for your phone.Yes, if you have a device with an Android 10 operating system you have to be careful not to set it as a background otherwise you would find an unpleasant surprise: the total "crash" of your smartphone, with the screen blocked to flash impossible to solve.The alarm has become viral in the last hours on social networks where many, convinced that it was a hoax, tried to set the image in question except then finding the unusable phone and join the alarm.
So much so that the race immediately started to solve the "mystery", with many people who launched themselves in hypotheses and conjectures to clarify the reason for this strange phenomenon that concerns Android devices of all the brands: from Samsung to Nokia, from Xiaomi toOnePlus, up to Google's pixels.At the moment only Huawei, however, as Android Authority reports "seems to be less vulnerable".Better, however, avoid checking firsthand.
The most accredited hypothesis is that the problem is caused by the dynamic image range, which has a Google Skia color profile while Android 10, on the other hand, works with the SRGB standard.The stall therefore arises when the system tries to convert photography and not succeeding goes "crash".The bug only starts when you try to set the image as a background, nothing happens if for example it is saved in the images gallery or if it opens it as an attachment of an email.Maximum attention instead to download it from social networks, in particular from Twitter, which leaving the original resolution of the photo exposes those who come across with an Android device device.And the "offending" shot in all probability may not be the only one in circulation capable of causing this bug.For the moment, however, Mountain View has not issued any communication on the matter.
So what to do if you come across the photo and you have the smartphone crash?At the moment the experts suggest two alternatives: carry out a total reset of the device by restoring the factory conditions but thus losing all the data (unless you have a backup) or - less drastic solution - delete photography by accessing in safe mode.Restart the smartphone, in fact, it is useless.However, if you really don't want to do without the most dangerous background on the web, the advice is to make a screenshot to the original image and set the one as a background, so that it has an "accepted" resolution by Android.