PIXEL 3XL PORTAL 2 BACKGROUNDS HOW TO

If you know that you can perform all of the described steps, you shouldn't have any troubles with reproducing the issue and then recovering from it (I triple checked and I have always been able to reproduce the issue with the steps described and then fix it). If you are unable to perform some of the steps described in the 'fix' part of the video, you may end up needing to factory reset your device (and thus lose all your data). I discourage anyone from trying this unless you really know what you're doing. The fix means we simply get rid of the lockscreen PIN to be able to unlock the phone (which prevents the phone from rebooting to recovery mode by itself and which also allows us to install apps via ADB), and then we install and launch a simple app which changes the wallpaper to a 'safe' one (to black color).

PIXEL 3XL PORTAL 2 BACKGROUNDS HOW TO

Later in the video, there's a demonstration of how to fix the issue (ADB is necessary for the fix). In addition, if you use the 'Daily wallpaper' feature in the Google's Wallpaper app, you can run into this issue without even realizing that it's caused by a wallpaper (it can change daily without having an issue, but eventually you may run into one wallpaper which causes troubles). The main problem with this issue is that you can reproduce it on the latest stable version of the OS with the latest preinstalled Google apps - no tinkering with the system, no third party apps, no beta versions. The bug is most likely caused by a wide color gamut image being set as wallpaper and the phone (or the System UI app) not being able to handle such image. This video demonstrates how to reproduce a two years old bug which causes the System UI app to constantly crash on the Google Pixel 2 XL.

Pixel 3xl portal 2 backgrounds