How THIS wallpaper kills your phone.

A video on YouTube. In Tech, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

The video explains why a specific nature photograph wallpaper crashes Android phones, tracing the issue to a rounding error in luminance calculation during color profile conversion.

From the video

Answers: Why does setting a specific wallpaper crash Android phones?

Android wallpaper crash bug
Color spaces in photography
sRGB vs ProPhoto RGB
Pixel luminance calculation in Android

What it concludes

The wallpaper causes Android phones to crash because it is encoded in the ProPhoto RGB color profile.
Android's default color engine encounters a rounding error during luminance calculation, exceeding the 255 maximum limit.
Setting a screenshot of the image as wallpaper is safe because screenshots are saved in sRGB.
Android 11 is expected to fix this luminance rounding bug.

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