Shader Editor crashes my phone when opened

[jonahh1]

I made a shader that accidentally has a loop thousands of iterations long and now any time i try to open the app it crashes my phone completely, forcing a restart (thats not triggered by me).

I've had similar issues and managed to work around it by switching to a shader through the slow UI but this time not even the Shader content shows before crashing.

If there is anyway to reset/change the settings (to change the run mode/opening shader) outside of the app i would love to know. The last thing i want to do is clear the data and loose all of my shaders 😅

Any help would be amazing,
thank you in advance.

[Nibroc-64]

I had a similar issue to this as well, except the app would just freeze and then crash.
I found a solution that works for at least me, though! If you try to set the app as a live wallpaper, you can click the settings button, which gets you to the settings menu of the shader editor. Then, if you set the run mode to be "run in extra activity" the shader won't automatically load when you open the app, and you can fix the problematic shader.
Also in the settings menu is the option to export all the shaders to a file, so if somehow it still crashes you can do that, clear the app's data, then re-import the shaders.

The app should have some kind of detection for "okay, we crashed last time, let's not load the shader immediately", though

[jonahh1]

I found a solution that works for at least me, though! If you try to set the app as a live wallpaper, you can click the settings button, which gets you to the settings menu of the shader editor. Then, if you set the run mode to be "run in extra activity" the shader won't automatically load when you open the app, and you can fix the problematic shader.

Thank you so much, I'm sorry I hadn't noticed your comment until recently. Your solution worked perfectly for me (after i figured out the useless Samsung UX)