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This is the gif image that will crash or restart your SE phone |
XGlite015
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This gif image will either crash or restart your SE phone. Found about it in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKO_km6UQKI and then I tested the image on my W710 and it restarted my phone just by highlighting it. The guy on youtube, solidsnake204 tested it on his K510 and V630(with W660 software) and it crashed both but did not bricked his phone. It seems to affect only SE phones. It may or may not brick your phone so try @ your own risk. Here's the image file http://www.freewebs.com/ss204-flash/virus.gif just copy and paste it in your phone then highlight or view it. |
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xell
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W880i - crashed. |
Mizzle
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This is damn scary!!! 
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XGlite015
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^^^Did it restart your W880 or WSOD? |
gola
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i'm not going to try it
"Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do!"
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XGlite015
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The risk in viewing the image on your SE phone is that it could WSOD and permanently brick your phone. The image can just restart your phone, crash it with WSOD but can be restored by turning off phone or taking battery out, or it could permanently brick your phone. Try @ your own risk. I was nervous when I tried it minutes ago but was relieved that it only restarted my phone. i have the latest W710 firmware installed. |
tass0s
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hey,does anyone know why does it happen? |
xell
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Crashed in "It went black and restarted without PIN". Could delete it as I opened "More" faster than the animation went through. I think it's a faulty end of file or something like that which SE phones couldn't cope with. |
kenoby
Joined: Dec 17, 2007
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Just tried on my P1 and I can see the gif, it is not restarting. I've saved it and went to see it again. It started slowly as it was caching it, but can be seen as any other.
Probably slow platforms are restarting cause it is too demanding 
[ This Message was edited by: kenoby on 2008-03-19 16:35 ] |
XGlite015
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I deleted the file by connecting my phone to my computer then delete the file in the memory card. I am puzzled because a poster in the youtube video said that it didn't crash his ROKR E6. I'm going to try it some time in a Nokia 6233 and Samsung E250 to see if those phones can display it. |
Amras
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What about changing the view mode to List then highlight it?
Logically the List view mode won't display any thumbnail so it could probably be save.
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zaxan
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
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@Amras, you are correct there - I put it into my others folder so it is only shown in the list and this does not restart the phone, only actually viewing the animation restarts the phone afaik  |
gaming_guy
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On 2008-03-19 17:29:17, XGlite015 wrote:
I deleted the file by connecting my phone to my computer then delete the file in the memory card. I am puzzled because a poster in the youtube video said that it didn't crash his ROKR E6. I'm going to try it some time in a Nokia 6233 and Samsung E250 to see if those phones can display it.
ive tried it on all my  phones and it crashed all of them. it also crashed a samsung d900, but a d600 just played it fine. a nokia 6230, 7373 and 6233 played it fine
K700i > K750i > K810i (current phone)
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bavlondon2
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So what if we transfer it to out phone but dont open it. Just bluetooth it to others to ruin their phones?
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mario2004
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Hell, thouse Nokia boys have struck again. The discussion and jokes in the ' underworld' has been going on for sometime. I never actually believed that someone will intentionaly 'create' something like this, just to discredit SE. My boss was very surprised after I did send the 'virus' to him and his SE (which he used to praise a lot) gave its gost. Now he wants something 'more reliable' Now let me see how many SE cells can I 'hang' till the end of the week
'Better govern our selfs the wrong way, then be governed by 'others' the right way.'
- Robert Mugabe - Freedom fighter comarade, peoples hero and President of Zimbabwe. |
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Posted: 2008-03-19 16:57
