Using Wallpaper to Soft-Brick Your Phone

Don't try this at home kids...

Setting this image as wallpaper could soft-brick your phone | Android Authority

 

Oh dear, I take it by what I watched the phone doesn't boot at all after its powered down.

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Factory reset to bring it back from the dead.

 

If a factory reset brings it back that means pressing power and holding volume up and down to enter safe mode should work as that normally has a fixed wallpaper, so at least that way you can keep your data.

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Is android that easy to mess with? Wow.

 

Yes. Even easier if you can get root.
However most OEM's now stop you unlocking the bootloader to do that.

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Won't be going to android then. Apple isn't the be all end all in everything but I am pretty sure that if I put a wallpaper on my iphone or ipad, it's not going to brick.

 

The issue is broken color profile metadata of the picture since A10 doesn't convert non-sRGB to somewhat sRGB or DCI-P3 or just basic RGB profile. It seems ios 13.4 onwards defaults to DCI-P3 profile.

 

I won't never understand, why people are constantly try to "improve" their "phone experience", fail miserably and then point at the vendor.