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you might think of malware or poorly coded programs as common causes of a

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crashed phone but users of both Android

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and iOS have reported their devices being taken down by things as simple as

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text messages or even photos how in the world could receiving a string of

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characters or loading up a picture forced your phone to shut down or worse

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get stuck in a boot loop let's start with text bombs which have notably

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affected iphones several times in recent years a text bomb is simply a specific string

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of text that will cause your device to crash because it can't handle it

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correctly typically a text bomb may contain symbols emojis or rarely used characters

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that make your phone do additional processing one well-known example is the rainbow

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glitch from a few years ago where typing a white flag emoji the number zero and

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then a rainbow emoji and then sending it would cause the recipient's phone to

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freeze because iOS tried to combine these characters into a rainbow flag but

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a bug in the programming kept it from doing so properly more recently we saw a

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certain text string in the cindy language which is spoken in parts of

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india and pakistan crashed some devices running iOS 13. the bug was caused

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because some languages written in a peugeot arabic script including cindy

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stack diacritical marks on top of the

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main characters meaning that an individual character can get quite tall

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with lots of marks above and below it when iOS went to show you the

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abbreviated version before you opened your full messaging app it would get

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confused because it didn't know how to handle the extra character bulk

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ultimately the operating system would try to access an area of RAM that didn't

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even exist and if you know anything about programming memory faults like

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this commonly cause crashes now let's shift gears and talk about how photos

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can also bring down your phone in may 2020 there was an innocent enough

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looking photo of a landscape circulating that caused some Android phones to crash

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if users tried setting it as their wallpaper ironic given the tranquil

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mountain scenery that it contained the issue here had to do with color

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space you can learn more about color spaces right up here but put simply it's

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the system that software and hardware use to store color information and

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reproduce colors accurately the Android operating system uses the srgb color

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space which is quite standard across the web every pixel in an srgb image has its

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red blue and green values the three primary colors expressed as 8 bits so

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each pixel can have 255 different intensities red green and

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blue to create whatever color you're supposed to see

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problem is if an image is coded to use a different color space it might support

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more values than just 8 bits per channel RGB

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so if the values in an expanded color space are higher than what the srgb only

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operating system expects it can generate what's called an out of bounds exception

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and make your phone crash since the os doesn't know what to do with those

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values making matters worse because your wallpaper obviously loads whenever you

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restart your phone incidents like these can trap your

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device in a boot loop meaning you might have to resort to a complete factory

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reset to resolve the problem what can you do as a user to prevent this kind of

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misfortune well unfortunately these issues are really

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just caused by programming bugs so the best thing you can do is keep tabs on

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your favorite tech news sites and steer clear of any game-breaking texts or

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photos until the problem is patched now if you'll excuse me i've got to message

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some beautiful pictures to people that i don't like

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