Wechat storage backup and restore: My samsung S6 27GB disk space

May 31, 2020

Introduction

I ran into mobile phone storage less than 20 MB. I removed some images from the phone. But I had to come out the solution quickly to solve the issue. I could not login wechat on my phone. I removed one GPS app to release 200 MB space. Later I figured out how to remove wechat internal storage, but I do have to keep some chat history as well this time. I like to write down my learning process.

Wechat internal history

I have to keep some chat history so that I can learn from my own experience as a wechat player. I found the article how to backup the chat history through computer version of wechat this time. And I like to restore chat history as well. Restore chat history is my first time.

It is the first time  I learned to work better with wechat app. I ran into mobile phone storage issue, and I just did first time backup and restore on wechat app. I like to write down the steps and then review them later .

Wechat storage backup and restore

It is tough for me to work with 27 GB storage on my mobile phone. I have to use wechat app to connect to my friends and relatives on wechat. The internal data of wechat was 2GB, and storage space of my mobile phone is 400 MB after I removed a GPS app to free the space.

Here are steps to follow:

1. Always try to keep 1 GB storage space on my mobile phone;
2. Connect wechat on desktop version, backup chat history - I chose three chat history this time;
3. Delete all internal data from Samsung settings -> apps -> wechat -> internal data
4. Restore chat history from wechat computer version -> I chose to restore 3 chat history
5. Now my mobile phone with 27 GB disk size has 2 GB storage space. 

I should consider to work on this backup, deletion of internal data and then restore once a month. 

4 Ways to Backup and Restore WeChat Chat History

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Tax preparation checklist: TurboTax Canada

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Income

• T Income Slips (T4, T4A, T4E, T3, T5, T5008, T4AOAS, T4AP, T5007)
• Other Income
• Tips and gratuities not already on your T4 or T4A
• Rental income (and expenses as a part of your T776 form)
• Self-employment (and expenses as a part of your T2125 for each business – fishing, farming, small businesses, freelance work, and contractors)
• Support payments received.
• Capital Gains including the sale of your principal residence.
• Amounts for carrying charges and interest expenses related to your investments. This includes fees for managing your investments.
• Home Buyers’ Plan, and Lifelong Learning Plan repayment amounts.

Expenses & Credits (a sampling as what you need changes depending upon your life situation)

• Adoption expenses
• Charitable donations
• Employment Expenses (Form T2200, completed by your employer to claim employment expenses, and a T777 outlining those expenses)
• Home accessibility expenses
• Medical expenses. If you’re claiming any medical expenses for other dependent family members (other than you, your spouse, and your minor children), the dependent’s net income is required
• Moving expenses
• Personal attendant/facility care expenses
• Receipts for childcare expenses
• Receipts for classroom/school supplies (teachers and early childhood educators)
• Student loan interest amounts
• Support payments made
• Tuition slips
• Union dues not included on your T4 slip

Depending on your province of residence, you may also need a few other amounts for certain provincial credits such as: Rent receipts – Property tax amounts – RL Slips (Quebec)- Seniors’ activity receipts

If you’re a CRA MyAccount holder, you can import these items directly into your return using CRA’s Auto-fill my return service.

Looking for an income tax calculator for your province or territory. TurboTax has you covered; simply enter in your province and amounts, it will calculate your taxes accordingly.

If at the end of the day you feel a bit overwhelmed trying to make sure you have everything, consider TurboTax Live Assist & Review and get unlimited help and advice as you do your taxes, plus a final review before you file.  Or, choose TurboTax Live Full Service and have one of our tax experts do you return from start to finish.

Tax preparation checklist: HR block

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Tax preparation checklist: WHAT DO I NEED TO FILE MY TAXES?

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This one is for USA, but I like to quickly scan the document and get the idea what to look into.

Personal Information

Tax Identification Numbers are mandatory items on your tax prep checklist. All taxpayers will need the following information.

•  Your social security number or tax ID number
•  Your spouse's full name and social security number or tax ID number

Dependent(s) Information

Parents and caregivers should gather this information as they review what they need to file their taxes.

•  Dates of birth and social security numbers or tax ID numbers
•  Childcare records (including the provider's tax ID number) if applicable
•  Income of other adults in your home
•  Form 8332 showing that the child’s custodial parent is releasing their right to claim a child to you, the noncustodial parent (if applicable)

Sources of Income

Many of these forms won't apply every year. For example, you will only receive the investment forms you may need to file your taxes if you had distributions or other activity.

• Employed

  •  Forms W-2

• Unemployed

  •  Unemployment, state tax refund (1099-G)

• Self-Employed

  •  Forms 1099, Schedules K-1, income records to verify amounts not reported on 1099s
  •  Records of all expenses — check registers or credit card statements, and receipts
  •  Business-use asset information (cost, date placed in service, etc.) for depreciation
  •  Office in home information, if applicable
  •  Record of estimated tax payments made (Form 1040–ES)

• Rental Income

  •  Records of income and expenses
  •  Rental asset information (cost, date placed in service, etc.) for depreciation
  •  Record of estimated tax payments made (Form 1040–ES)

• Retirement Income

  •  Pension/IRA/annuity income (1099-R)
  •  Traditional IRA basis (i.e., amounts you contributed to the IRA that were already taxed)
  •  Social security/RRB income (1099-SSA, RRB-1099)

• Savings & Investments or Dividends

  •  Interest, dividend income (1099-INT, 1099-OID, 1099-DIV)
  •  Income from sales of stock or other property (1099-B, 1099-S)
  •  Dates of acquisition and records of your cost or other basis in property you sold (if basis is not reported on 1099-B)
  •  Health Savings Account and long-term care reimbursements (1099-SA or 1099-LTC)
  •  Expenses related to your investments
  •  Record of estimated tax payments made (Form 1040–ES)
  •  Transactions involving cryptocurrency (Virtual currency)

• Other Income & Losses

  •  Gambling income (W-2G or records showing income, as well as expense records)
  •  Jury duty records
  •  Hobby income and expenses
  •  Prizes and awards
  •  Trusts
  •  Royalty Income 1099–Misc.
  •  Any other 1099s received
  •  Record of alimony paid/received with ex-spouse’s name and SSN

Types of Deductions

The types of deductions you can take depend a lot on your life situation. It’s likely you won’t need all of the records listed below for your tax documents checklist.

• Home Ownership

  •  Forms 1098 or other mortgage interest statements
  •  Real estate and personal property tax records
  •  Receipts for energy-saving home improvements (e.g., solar panels, solar water heater)
  •  All other 1098 series forms

• Charitable Donations

  •  Cash amounts donated to houses of worship, schools, other charitable organizations
  •  Records of non-cash charitable donations
  •  Amounts of miles driven for charitable or medical purposes

• Medical Expenses

  •  Amounts paid for healthcare insurance and to doctors, dentists, hospitals

• Health Insurance

  •  Form 1095-A if you enrolled in an insurance plan through the Marketplace (Exchange)

• Childcare Expenses

  •  Fees paid to a licensed day care center or family day care for care of an infant or preschooler
  •  Wages paid to a baby-sitter
    Don't include expenses paid through a flexible spending account at work

• Educational Expenses

  •  Forms 1098-T from educational institutions
  •  Receipts that itemize qualified educational expenses
  •  Records of any scholarships or fellowships you received
  •  Form 1098-E if you paid student loan interest

• K-12 Educator Expenses

  •  Receipts for classroom expenses (for educators in grades K-12)

• State & Local Taxes

  •  Amount of state/local income tax paid (other than wage withholding), or amount of state and local sales tax paid
  •  Invoice showing amount of vehicle sales tax paid

• Retirement & Other Savings

  •  Form 5498-SA showing HSA contributions
  •  Form 5498 showing IRA contributions
  •  All other 5498 series forms (5498-QA, 5498-ESA)

• Federally Declared Disaster

  •  City/county you lived/worked/had property in
  •  Records to support property losses (appraisal, clean up costs, etc.)
  •  Records of rebuilding/repair costs
  •  Insurance reimbursements/claims to be paid
  •  FEMA assistance information
  •  Check FEMA site to see if my county has been declared a federal disaster area

2019 tax return: My preparation and showcase

May 31, 2020

Introduction

It is so important for me to learn how to manage myself in order to prepare tax return. I like to write a blog about my experience and showcase how good I am right now. I also like to look into issues and then make plans for improvement.

2019 tax return

I have to learn better to manage myself. I download tax document from Scotiabank.com, but the documents related to my RRSP and T5 are not good enough for me. I need to come out the total amount I deposited.

Here are highlights for my preparation:

1. Use simpletax software
2. Download all scotia bank 2019 and 2020 checking account statements;
3. Manually go over monthly statement and check my RRSP deposit information. 
4. Enter my T4 information on simpletax.com
5. My RRSP limit is $52,056.00 based on CRA website
6. Review my auto deposit information on CRA website
7. My refund is $1074.25 dollars
8. Take picture of T4 document and save it on my github
9. Take picture of my $3000 dollar deposit on RRSP - Scotia Canada index fund statement
10. My RRSP contribution is $5280, from March to December 2019 is $4620, January to March 2020 is $660.
11. Download tax return 2019 report from simpletax.com
12. Find all deposit slips from January 2019 to Dec. 2019. 
13. Need to check hours worked in total, vacation days in total, sick days in total

Actionable Item

1. Add T5 $263.22 to my tax return, now tax return is 50 dollar less; $1021.45
2. I also look up checklist for tax return for Canadian and US residents. 

I spent one hour to look into sponsor application immigration cost, and I only had two hours left before June 1, 2020, and I missed my 10:00 PM mock interview on May 30, 2020. 

Wechat maintainance plan: How to remove data from wechat properly?

May 31, 2020

Introduction

It is an exciting project to be frugal and then I have to live with 29 GB storage of Samsung S6 mobile phone. I ran out of storage space, so I had to remove Sygic app to get 500 MB back. I have to learn how to remove wechat 2.22 GB internal data regularly.

What is the smart way?

I have to do a short research to remove internal data from wechat reguarly.

Here is the article.

sygic app: Better than google map

May 31, 2020

Introduction

I have to remove sygic app since my mobile runs out of storage space. I have to learn how to clean up and maintain storage on my mobile phone.

The Fall of General Electric

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GE, the legendary bellwether American company, was founded by Thomas Edison in 1889. It was an original Dow Jones Industrial Average component, which represents the 30 largest stocks in the U.S. GE stayed on the Dow Jones from the early 1900’s until 2018 when it was abruptly removed. GE was always a large company, but Jack Welch who took over in 1981 brought General Electric into the stratosphere; he led GE from being the 9th largest company to the largest by the year 2000. Jeff Immelt took over in 2001—and had big shoes to fill. Early on, Immelt was a competent CEO, but over time he made a number of mistakes that cumulated to ruin GE’s once mythic image when it needed a bailout of sorts (from Buffett and sort of by the FDIC) during the financial crisis of 2008. After the financial crisis, with GE’s mythic image in a state of disrepair, Immelt tried to rebuild the company and made 4 key mistakes: 1) He sold NBC at a discounted price. 2) He heavily invested in oil companies 3) He sold the profitable GE Capital business at a large loss 4) He purchased Alstom a French Power company. Each of these decisions led to turmoil. In 2015, Immelt said GE would earn $2 in 2018. However, in 2018, GE lost money. In 2017, Immelt left the company, but GE’s new CEO John Flannery would last only a year—he was fired in 2018. Lawrence Culp, the former CEO of Danaher, took over in late 2018. He forecasted GE’s EPS to be less than 70 cents in 2019. Oh, how the might have fallen! GE is the tale of a CEO (Jeff Immelt) whose biggest mistake was listening to shareholders.

Stock research: U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB)

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Two facts and arguments to look into:

U.S. Bancorp doesn't have an investment banking business

Investment banking business tends to do well in turbulent times

Here is the content about banking business:

There's certainly a good reason for this. U.S. Bancorp is one of the most profitable and efficient banks in the United States. In 2019, U.S. Bancorp's 55.8% efficiency ratio was significantly better than those of most of its peers, and its return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA) were among the best among any brick-and-mortar banks.

More importantly, U.S. Bancorp has a fantastic track record of responsible lending and solid financial management. In fact, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, U.S. Bancorp's earnings never went negative, something few banks can claim.

So, why has U.S. Bancorp been so beaten-down now? The short answer is that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a ton of uncertainty. We just don't know how long a recession will last, and there's no way to know if consumers will be able to pay their bills after government support stops flowing. And unlike most of its big-bank peers, U.S. Bancorp doesn't have an investment banking business (which tends to do well in turbulent times).

Investing in Airline Stocks

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Here are some facts:

1. Four airlines control about 80% of the U.S. market
2. using technology to manage schedules and set fares, mergers -> 4 competitors
3. Key terms: RASM, CASM, Load factor

RASM 

Short for revenue per available seat mile

CASM

Short for costs per available seat mile 

GE stock research: I like to learn business since I choose to be a share holder of GE 600 shares

May 30, 2020

Introduction

It is my short term research project. I like to learn more about GE business. I like to learn if I can invest some time to read more about GE as a business, aviation business of GE. 

GE business

Here is the article. 

GE 

Market capitalization $57 billion

net debt on its books - $57 billion 

$3 billion in free cash flow over the past year

on course to burn more than $3 billion in negative free cash flow in this quarter alone - 2020 April - June

a perilous position - perilous means dangerous

profit division - airplane engines - hit hard by the decline in air travel

News:

UK tax issue - 1 billion sued for tax fraud, plus interest and penalties on that tax debt. 

Actionable Items

It is not easy for me to be an investor. I have to improve my English, and this is the first time I realize that one quarter - second quarter in 2020 GE will have $3 billion negative free cash flow. 

Stock research: GE stock market swing

May 30, 2020

Introduction

It is such an exciting to see the gains of $500 dollars in less than one week after my purchase 500 share GE stocks. But it was also surprising to see the price went down and gains are around $100 dollars instead. I like to write down psychology part of investment, short term, medium cap, and distressed business with too much debt, pandemic, and lessons I learn.

Case study

I have a Chinese friend who purchased $10,000 US dollar stock GE, and then sold in next day morning 7.4/ share, and made profit $400 dollars. She asked me if I like to sell with her together. I told her that I am a long term investor, and I shared with her my business plan.

After GE went down from 7.4 to 6.6, I think that I should treat this market gain over 20% in less than one week as abnormal, and take profit of $500, and then purchase back when price is low as $5.5 to $6.5.

May 30, 2020

May 27, 2020

Here is the article to explain why GE had 7% drop first hour on May 26, 2020.

Shares of industrial giant General Electric (NYSE:GE) tumbled 5% in early trading Friday, and remain down 3.6% as of 10:40 a.m. EDT. What precisely is causing GE stock to fall, however, is a matter of opinion.

free cash flow will be a lot worse than the $2.5 billion Wall Street has been estimating so far -- as much as $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion -- and that GE will end the year burning cash as well.