SMRT NS Train Down Again

The SMRT North and Sound Bound Train Service is affected again during the night time when people are returning from work.

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This time it affects Newton and Marina Bay in both directions. Bus bridging services has been activated. It is the 2nd time in September where the NS line has broken down again.

Now LTA announce no services towards Jurong East and it is going to impact more people going back home after a hard day of work.
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Preventive Maintenance is important and we have a lot of lessons to learn from Japan. It is time to employed more Singaporeans to learn the rolling stock.

Xiaomi Weather App

Xiaomi RedMi Note has an excellent built in Weather App for your needs. It allow you to know your local weather.

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You will get the current weather and the next 3 days of Outlook. It also features the temperature and type of weather at your current location.

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This weather app also provide you a trending of the temperatures.

More updates of Xiaomi RedMi Note will be posted. Subscribe to our blog for more update.

LG Nexus 5 Hard Reset

The hard reset function shall only be use if the device always freeze or becomes unresponsive. It can also be use when you want to sell your device to upgrade to a new smart phone. After the hard reset, the device will be a clean device just like it just got out from the factory.

Hard Reset of the LG Nexus 5 Steps by Steps Guide

  1. Turn off your device
  2. Press and hold the volume down key
  3. With the volume down key held down, press and hold the power button
  4. The boot loader will appear and u can release both button
  5. Use the volume down key to scroll and select the recovery mode
  6. Press the power key to enter
  7. Press the Volume up key, then press the Volume down key to scroll to wipe data/factory reset
  8. With wipe data/factory reset highlighted, press the Power key.
  9. Press the Volume down key to scroll to Yes — delete all user data.
  10. With Yes — delete all user data highlighted, press the Power key.
  11. Device will restart
  12. Once the wipe is complete, with reboot system now highlighted, press the Power key

The LG Nexus 5 is now reset and shall have to perform the settings again to setup as a new phone.

Facebook Video Auto-Play

Facebook has recently rolled out Video Auto-Play function on your smart phone when you update the app. It automatically enabled this function to the ON mode. This will play the video whether you are on Wifi or using mobile data network. This will ready waste your data usage on your mobile plan.

Actually you can disable this function to Auto-Play the videos. Go to the setting and scroll to Video Auto-Play. Select to off it or play the video when there is Wifi available.

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This will waste your mobile data plan if it is switch to the ON mode. Some Facebook users were helpless on what to do when the videos Auto-Play. Now you know the solution, share it with all your friends.

SMRT Down Time on South Bound Trains

SMRT Train is facing down time issue on the south bound services between Toa Payoh and Marina Bay. LTA app,  My Transport has sent out the alert to all users who have installed the application. It is available on both iPhone & Android.

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Bus Bridging services is available for the affected commuters. The engineer team are progressively resuming the service. It comes at a bad time where passengers are returning to home to rest after a hard day of work.