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How THIS wallpaper kills your phone.

Mrwhosetheboss

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Mrwhosetheboss explains the technical reason why a specific wallpaper image caused Android phones to crash and bootloop.

The cursed wallpaper that crashes Android phones, finally explained. This video gets pretty complex, so get comfortable! Original image by Gaurav Agrawal: flickr.com/photos/117605304@N07/ Huge thanks to Mishaal: twitter.com/MishaalRahman BadDaemon: forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=5662620 and Davide: twitter.com/HrX2003 and Ice Universe: twitter.com/UniverseIce Subscribe for more content (IT'S FREE) : goo.gl/pLg6fE It would make my day if you could also follow me on: 🌈 Instagram: goo.gl/OUqBBa 🐦 Twitter: goo.gl/EFhwqL 😊 Facebook: goo.gl/Aluzl1 Amazon Affiliate links: Amazon US: goo.gl/3yS2aP Amazon UK: goo.gl/gvrsGZ My Filming Gear: goo.gl/5HKrBp Music is from Epidemic sound: share.epidemicsound.com/pHDFT

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What people say. Recommended as an accessible explanation of the color profile out-of-bounds bug that crashed Android devices.

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…256! This is over the theoretical max. ERROR! So normally if android runs into a problem like this it just closes the image, but you set it as your wallpaper remember? Thus it can't close it aaaaand bootloop you just broke a phone! Thanks for reading my more complicated explanation of what's going on! I got all my info from the following video: [video and I just tried to sum it up in a way that we all can understand it.…
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