A video that Pixel shuts down for some reason is found on YouTube



Some models of the Pixel series, which is Google's genuine smartphone, have reported a strange phenomenon that when a specific movie is played on the YouTube application, the Pixel automatically shuts down and restarts for some reason.

YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/youtube-video-causes-pixel-phones-to-instantly-reboot/

The movie in question is below. In the movie ' Alien ' released in 1979, the scene where Captain Dallas of the space cargo ship Nostromo goes to investigate the duct alone, the image quality is up to 4K and HDR compatible.

Alien 4K HDR | Get Out of There-YouTube


According to a Reddit post, watching this video using the YouTube app on the Pixel caused the Pixel to reboot. Reddit has gathered reports from Pixel users other than the poster that similar phenomena have been reproduced, and all have been confirmed on Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 6 Pro, and Pixel 6.

My Pixel 7 Pro reboots on specific YouTube clip
by u/OGPixel5 in Google Pixel



Also, when trying to automatically play a video with a thumbnail displayed by searching for 'alien 4K HDR' on the YouTube application, it seems that the Pixel has restarted.


And he said that he could not confirm the phenomenon of arbitrarily restarting with Pixel 5, Pixel 2, Pixel 3, and Pixel 4a. From this, it was thought that the device would restart if viewed on a Pixel smartphone equipped with a Tensor chip, which is Google's proprietary SoC.

According to a post on Reddit, this bug has already been fixed at the time of writing the article. It is not clear why such a phenomenon occurred, but the IT news site ArsTechnica reported that the smartphone crashed and had to be reset to factory settings as an example of a similar problem. Introducing the 'cursed wallpaper' that you will have to.



The original photo of this wallpaper is saved in a color space called proRGB, but it needs to be converted to a color space called sRGB in order to use it as a standby screen for smartphones. However, in this conversion from proRGB to sRGB, a problem occurred in one pixel of the photo in question, and it crashed the moment the photo containing that pixel was set as the standby screen.

Since the movie in question was '4K HDR', Ars Technica expects that something about this image quality setting was causing the Pixel to crash and restart.

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