Samsung Promises To Fix An Occult Wallpaper Issue That Broke Its Device

Samsung / Unsplash Photo Wallpaper illustrations

JAKARTA - Still remember the lake view wallpaper that can damage the user's cellphone. If so, Samsung is preparing an update file to fix the problem caused by the image on its device.

Quoted from SamMobile, Thursday, June 4, Samsung has confirmed that they are fixing the bug problem caused by the viral wallpaper image. In the near future, Samsung will release a firmware update for its cellphones soon.

When I tried to upload the original image (left) to Weibo, I found that its color to change (right). At this time, the image became harmless, but when uploaded to twitter, the original image still does not change color, still harmful. So I suspect it may be related to color gamut pic.twitter.com/0A1PlUqlpv

- Ice universe (UniverseIce) May 31, 2020

Based on the results of Samsung's research, the damage to the cellphone was caused by the wallpaper image having a color saturation value that was too high, so that it exceeded the sRGB color space that could be supported by the Android OS. That is why phones that activate these wallpapers will experience crashes or even bootlooping.

Therefore, Samsung asks its users not to download image files from official sites or applications. It is feared that the downloaded image file could bring bugs or malware that can damage Android devices.

Apart from Samsung, Android developers are also preparing a new security patch for mid-range phones. This over-the air firmware update will be released in the near future and can be downloaded by users.

Update: Samsung has received feedback on this type of bug in mid-May, and has resolved this issue. Just wait for the subsequent firmware update and do not take the risk. pic.twitter.com/oa7rxnkSkb

- Ice universe (@UniverseIce) June 1, 2020

It was previously known that there was a wallpaper image that was claimed to be malware. It is said that the cellphone that embeds the image as wallpaper will experience interference and damage.

Twitter account @UniverseIce, said the android device will immediately be damaged and experience bootlooping because of using the wallpaper. In fact, not a few of these cellphones have experienced a factory reset and returned to their original settings.