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Samsung Note 5 Not Charging

I thought this will be the last thing that will happen to me since my Note 5 is relatively new. I had recently updated the firmware on my Samsung Note 5 smartphone and changed to standard charging. My son used my smartphone until 0% and switched off then he started charging. The screen showed the battery lightning logo and 0% battery logo. Then it flashes the battery charging lightning logo on and off. But it never got charged and remained at 0% forever although I was using the original charger. When I switched on, it would power on and before I could even set back to fast charging, it switched off again since it had 0% charge.

I wiped the Note 5 cache partition, rebooted system now and used PC to USB to charge my smartphone to about 10% before I switched on and change it to fast charging to solve the problem.

Wipe Note 5 cache partition

• Press and hold the Volume Up and the Home buttons first, and then press and hold the Power key.
• Keep the three buttons pressed and when ‘Samsung Galaxy Note 5’ shows, release the Power key but continue holding the other two.
• Once the Android logo shows, release both the Volume Up and Home buttons.
• The Android system recovery screen is shown with its options.
• Use the Volume Down key to highlight the option ‘Wipe cache partition’ and press the Power key to select it.
• When the process is complete, use the Volume Down key to highlight the option ‘Reboot system now’ and hit the Power key to restart the phone.
• The reboot may take a little longer to complete but don’t worry and wait for the device to become active.

Use PC to USB to charge my smartphone to 10%. Thereafter, I could power on and change it to Fast Charging. I could use the original charger to charge after that. Hope this will help you.

Spartania Offensive Strategy/Tips

If I have the chance to buy ambrosia and replay Spartania: Casual Strategy all over again, I would have done it differently. I did mention that in my previous post after reviewing the lowest level top 50 player GodIsAlive/JesusIsKing (currently level 32 / rank 26) and also Xinot20002645 who has just overtaken MisterE to be No. 1.
Update: I will review Dennsimus and pablomat who are very successful at low levels right now since the game rules have changed a bit.

Firstly, I would have spent some money to get the 2nd builder immediately. No commission for that, but kind of save you a lot of heartache, trouble and time to get that 2nd builder.

Secondly, this game favors the aggressor or attacker which I would have devoted all or most of my resources to my offensive upgrades. Why? E.g. If you pour in 3/4 of your resources to offense, you can defeat an opponent who put in 1/2 of his resources in defence, simple Maths. Of course you can argue about good defensive formation and bad offensive troop release but if the gap is too wide, you will be overrun. Also, you can get back your resources quickly by looting barbarians/players. Contrary, getting them organically from gold mines and food producers takes forever.

Let us take a look at Dennisimus offense who has reached top 50 at an impressive of only level 41.





Spectacular, but nothing special about it. Maximum level 20 (now raised to max 30) troops which is expected since he is in the top 50. However, an observation is that there are about 3 rows of archers since they are capable of taking down static defenses at long range at a safe distance. Archers at level 20 can be devastating which I would call for a nerf against buildings. Similar to other top 50 low level players like Xinot20002645 (I suspect maybe bots since there are quite a number of them with same prefix) as well. What is surprising and common is that there is no horse (could be take long time to upgrade and dies easily).

Let's take a look at the defence.





I have visited the rest of the top 50 low level players like pablomat and GodIsAlive/JesusIsKing. They have one thing in common. With the exception of Castle and static defences, the rest of the buildings are at low levels or level 1! Some do not even have gold mines at all! But all this makes sense since they need the upgrades in offense and looting barbarians of same or lower levels with super offensive upgrades will have no or minimal loses. Hypothetically, if you always stay on the offensive screen, you can never get attacked by barbarians. However without defence, you are unable to get ambrosia bottles to speed up your upgrades.

Offensive Strategy/Tips

1. 2nd Builder - Get the second builder immediately
2. Offensive Upgrades - Prioritize and speed up your upgrades in offense, especially tanks.
3. Troop Release - My release. The trick is to spread out the damage without dying.

Overrun Technique - Barbarians/Weak Players

• Archers
• Elephant (if enemy horses or many strong soldiers are in front, then Elephant 1st. If enemy front is really weak, then after magicians)
• Magicians (I have seen high level players releasing magicians first)
• 1st tank
• Commander
• Tanks (1-by-1 spaced a distant apart)
• Horses (time them so they converge with the last tank)

• Archers (if enemy horses in front, then 1 tank after a few archers to buffer first)
• Magicians
• Tanks (1-by-1. Always a tank tanking in front. This is where skill and judgement comes in. Away from the archer towers if possible but far enough so that your archers and magicians are not hit by splash damage by their elephant, magicians and other melee units. Careful, overwhelming forces esp. with soldiers can push your tank backwards)
• Elephant (preferably, just before the archer towers go down, catapults cannot kill you).
• Commander
• Horses

• Overun technique if you are confident, Or else, stick to time-release technique. Perhaps switching the elephant to be in front of the tanks to spread out the damage.

1. Arena - I do not find them enticing now, since I am only level 34. Perhaps level 40. Also entrance needs gold and no ambrosia bottles for winning. Looting barbarians achieve the resources and defending barbarians get ambrosia bottles to speed up upgrades. *Update: I am over level 50 now. Farm your barbarians often so that you have gold to scan your lower level opponents preferably, if not same or slightly higher level opponents. Of course, very high level opponents with no troops is a also a must try. Try your best not to have your chest queue empty.
2. Revenge - Do not willy-nilly get your troops killed. Scout them and only attack them when they have been overrun by barbarians and waiting for the reinforcement. They have 6 mins and usually I will not spend the ambrosia bottles to reinforce immediately. So scout them whenever you are free. Make them paranoid after attacking you. *Update: Do not revenge unless you are desperate to have a chest or you are too low level to attack anyone. Not only does it give you just 10 trophies, it also reduce your shield protection by 3 hours. Worse, lose both.

Just for the record, it is an honor for Marketing Manager Kfir of Spartonix, makers of Spartania to visit our blog. I will reply to them soon.

I am playing Spartania: Casual Strategy and it is pretty fun. It is somewhat similar to CoC except it's more like a side-scrolling 3D attack/defence game. Emily Goldring did a super job of a very comprehensive Spartania: Casual Strategy Review so I will not cover that here.

This is my current defence and it is very effective against the barbarian's attacks. So far, I have been breached perhaps fewer than 5 times (usually 2 levels higher) by the barbarians and no player has ever been successful yet.



I tried to find strategy, tips or guide online but I was in vain. So, I am here to help you. If I have the chance to restart again, I may play differently especially after reviewing the lowest level top 50 player GodIsAlive/JesusIsKing (currently level 32 / rank 26) and also Xinot20002645 who has just overtaken MisterE to be No. 1.

My initial strategy was to build a solid defence so that I could get ambrosia by successfully defending the barbarians' attacks. Since I needed 1300 ambrosia for the next builder, I could not wait passively to collect 2 ambrosia bottles that randomly appeared on top of the commander's tent. I noticed that I was attacked by the barbarians only when I was online at the defensive screen. So, I actively stayed on the defensive troop's screen as often and as long as possible to increase my chances of being attacked by barbarians. After the second builder, everybody is even game as you cannot recruit anymore.

Defensive Tips

1. Ambrosia - Why am I stating this as number 1? You need the second builder as soon as possible unless you are willing to pay. Collect your daily gift. Build a solid defence against barbarians and players. Stay at the defensive troop screen as often and as long as you can to collect your winnngs. You will constantly need food to replace your troops. Don't worry, this game favors the attacker.
2. Line of Defence - it is NOT the slanted up 45 degrees 3D first row visually. This IS VERY IMPORTANT. It is actually the vertical line. I observed the archers/range or melee units will approach/attack the nearest structure/building nearest to it from the vertical line. Try to arrange your ranged building/units as vertically as you can in order to have all of them focus-fire on the melee units.
3. Static Defensive - I believe you would have known this already. Prioritize to get and upgrade your static defenses (archer towers/catapults) to the maximum for the level you are in as soon as you can. Why? Static defenses have higher AoE and pin-point damage and health than your units especially early stages. Even at late stages, archer towers (1.7K hp) will take forever for the archers to take them down and also devastating pin-point damage. The catapults will still out-perform/out-live your magicians. Also, it does not cost food to replace when destroyed, unlike units. Only shortfall is out-ranged by archers and cannot move forward which can be a pro. Units move forward and get killed by focus-fire.
4. Resource Buildings - I place them in front of my archer towers as defensive buildings. You can argue that I need to protect my resources and people can surrender after raiding your resources. What good is it if you are completely overrun and lose half of your resources anyway. I observed the computer AI barbarians using another player's troops is perfect at deploying units. If you do not have the resource buildings to screw up their timing, the AI will be perfect at decimating your units every time. It's archers will take down your towers and catapults with their superior range. Then it's melee will meet your troops with the range plummeting you from behind. Just like what you do offensively, except perfection no matter the distance. They will overrun you once your defensive buildings are down. The resource buildings will screw up their timing and funnel their melee to be killed by your static defences and range. Your units will finally rush out to kill their magicians and archers. Which bring to my next point of building, troop or unit placement.
5. Building, Troop or Unit Placement - My initial placement was melee in front and range behind. I noticed that there was no focus-fire or cohesion when the barbarians attacked. Melee walked forward and get picked off by their archers' focus-fire and my range arrive too late. After lots of experiments, I found the optimum placement. Resource builidngs, archer towers, catapults, magicians, archers, tanks, horseman (yet to get the other units yet) vertically. With this kind of placement, quality fewer troops with focus-fire and cohesion can overcome a force of superior numbers. Of course, humans like you and I can overcome with superior archers to take down the static defences and magicians, then follow up by magicians, tanks, commander and horses which I will cover in part 2 of my offensive tips. *Update: The Tanks and Elephants make the magicians not as effective before. I have swapped my Archers with my Magicians to be infront but behind my static defenses surrounding my Elephant. So far, it has been proven effective against babarians but semi-effective against players. If the opponent's archers are very high level and a lot, they can take down my static defense 1-by-1. Nevertheless, if they are not careful, they can easily lose.
6. Resource - Not too sure this is coincidental or programmed (or paranoid)? Whenever I have high resources stored especially gold, I am almost always attacked by barbarians of same or higher levels. So, I always flush my resources upgrading and only attack when I need them. This is also protection against real players anyway. So far this is my observation. *Update: Who cares about resources. You can easily loot back from barbarians. Chests are more important.
7. Upgrade - Try to avoid breaks in your upgrades so let those long haul upgrades go overnight while you sleep. Try to avoid dual upgrade of the same type of troops e.g. 2 archers or 2 magicians or 2 tanks, unless you have like 4 to 5 troops for that type of unit. If you are using quality fewer troops and you are overrun, you cannot produce troops from that building while it is upgrading. *Update: I will cover in detail in Part 3.

Google Play patching that is causing the client to display pink/purple screens after patching to 4.2.

Workaround

• Go to the app settings and select clear data and then run the app again.

OR

• Alternatively you can just delete and reinstall the app and that should resolve the issue.

I have already experimented successfully for the following filter keywords in case you want to construct a classic deck + previous/current year expansion/adventure.

1. Basic
2. Classic
3. Nax
4. GvG
5. TGT
6. LoE
7. Lengendary

Case is not sensitive i.e. it does not matter it is upper or lower case.

Now, everyone, get in here! (oops, it's nerfed...)