Samsung S9 black screen blue LED notification light

I was helping my wife play Shopee games to earn Shopee coins when her Samsung S9 mobile phone decided to crash on me. The game crashed and the screen turned black. When I tried to wake it up by turning on (short or long press), it did not work. No worries, I am an IT professional. Calmly, I tried to reboot by holding down volume and on/off switch for 10s. The Samsung logo came on, with the blue (pulsing) LED notification light for a while and then... the screen went black again, unable to wake it up. I started to panick a little bit, since it meant she would not be able to use the mobile the next day. Anyway, option 2 below was what made it work.



If you have the black screen on your Galaxy S9 or S9+ and you can't turn on/off (reboot) try these two easy possible solutions.

1. Press & Hold both Volume Down and Power button at the same time until you see the Samsung logo. If no go give it a few more tries and if still no go, try option number 2.
2. Same as option number one but this time you also want to plug in your charging cable.

Shopee Pet Game Guide/Strategy

I have been playing Shopee games for quite a while so I am pretty experienced. I have not seen anybody written a detailed guide on it.

Shopee Pet

Diamonds

1. Tap the pet repeatly to collect a maximum of 30 diamonds/daily.
2. Pet School
• Quiz - memorize the answers (30 base diamonds)
• Race - download Auto Clicker (60 base diamonds)
• Art - memorize the differences (30 base diamonds)
3. Complete daily missions consecutively to win diamonds on the 5/6/7th day.
4. Upgrade house to earn bonus diamonds.

XP

1. Upgrade house to earn bonus food/bath XP.
2. Feed your pet with the bonus food/baths won from the school before the free ones.
3. Play with your pet to optimize XP.
• Soccer - wait for pet to reach the side lines of the goal posts (usually increases in speed). Swipe quicky diagonally left/right (30 degrees to verticle) opposite to pet's side. Max. 140 XP.
• Trampoline - die at 1000 m for max. 140 XP.
• Karaoke - change music to Twinkle Little Star for easy max. 200 XP
4. Go online to give/ask snacks 20 XP/snack up to max. 40 snacks or 800 XP. Tip: Go to room 1 after midnight.

Google Opinion Rewards

I have used this App to earn some pocket money to buy Google PlayStore games and micro-transaction in games. In fact, you can purchase anything from PlayStore. If you accumlate until Christmas, usually there will be sales on games etc.

These were the games I brought last Christmas.

1. FRAMED
2. FRAMED 2
3. LIMBO
4. Lumino City
5. Mini Metro
6. Stardew Valley
7. The Room: Old Sins
8. To the Moon

How to Shutdown and Restart iPhone 12, 12 Mini, 12 Pro, or 12 Pro Max

This may seem trivial to you. However, for a person like me who owns the first generation of iPhone 3GS (not exactly the first but the first successful model) and until recently, issued with a corporate iPhone 12 Mini, switching off the new generation iPhone has never been a challenge...

Whatever happened to just holding the on/off switch button on the top or side? Nope, the side button either puts your iPhone to sleep or wakes it up, or holding down the side button triggers Siri by default. Honestly, why Apple made such a simple action so complicated? Jesus, I need to Google just to relearn how to switch off an iPhone.

Anyway, 3 methods listed here:

1. Buttons Method.
2. Settings Menu Method
3. AssistiveTouch Method.

1. Buttons Method

iPhone with Face ID: Simultaneously press and hold the side button and either volume button until the slider appears, then drag the Power Off slider

OR
Volume Up button > Volume Down button > Hold the side button until the slider appears, then drag the Power Off slider

2. Settings Menu Method

Go to Settings > General > Shut Down, then drag the slider.


3. AssistiveTouch Method

If you are paranoid of physical buttons getting damaged due to wear and tear, you can use Power-off/Restart Using AssistiveTouch or the digital button.

• Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch, then make sure "AssistiveTouch" is enabled.
• Now, tap the on-screen AssistiveTouch button that appears, then tap Device > More > Restart.