Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Found a fun way to “hang» iPhone, Android and PCs – CNews.ru


6,6 thousand. smileys

Sending 6.6 thousand. emoticons sent to WhatsApp crashes in WhatsApp on your PC and mobile devices running Android reports SoftPedia citing researcher Indrajit Bhuyana (Indrajeet Bhuyan). According to him, sometimes manages to crash and cause by sending 4.2 thousand. Emoticons. At the same time on the iOS-devices it is only podvisanie applications for a while.

The researcher ascertained performance bug on Android-devices with the operating system versions Marshmallow, Lollipop and Kitkat and PC in Firefox and Google Chrome. He said that it told developers WhatsApp, but they have not yet eliminated the error. On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine that anyone will need to send 6.6 thousand. Emoticons.

Another finding

About a year ago Bhuyan found another bug in WhatsApp – he managed to cause exactly the same effect by sending a long text message consisting of several thousand words and occupies a volume of about 7 MB. Then developers messenger imposed restrictions on the length of the forwarded message, which solved the problem. However, as is now the researchers found, limitations on the number of emoticons was not provided.


Error in WhatsApp allows you to call malfunction

not the first time

This is not the first time that a specific message configuration allows you to call a failure in the messenger. In May of 2015 was discovered a bug in iOS, iPhone allows you to remotely restart a destination simply by sending him a certain sequence of characters in iMessage. Subsequently, the problem was corrected.

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