How to migrate/transfer LINE messenger chat history from old iPhone to new iPhone

It seems that there are many ways to achieve this. In my case I choosed to do a backup in iCloud and just restore it on the new phone and it works perfectly for me.

But to make this work you have make sure that your Line app is linked correctly the your iCloud account. 

1. In the LINE app of your old phone tap "Home" and then the top right gear icon for "Settings". Then go to "Account"->"Apple" und tap the "Link" button. 
2. After that you have to backup the chat history from the old iPhone to the iCloud. You can do this in the same Settings menu as before. This time go to "Chats"->"Chat history Backup"->"Back Up now"
3. Now just log in into the LINE app on your new phone and go to the "Settings" menu and tap on “Restore chat history.”. Thats it!
   

How to migrate/transfer WeChat chat history from old iPhone to new iPhone

From time to time you got a new mobile phone and you want to migrate the chat history from the old to the new phone. In this case I use the build in function "Migrate Chat to Another Device" in WeChat to achieve this. 

1. First of all you have to make sure that the old phone and the new phone are in the same local wlan.
2. Log in to your WeChat on your old phone and tap Me -> Settings -> General -> Backup & Migrate Chats -> Migrate Chats to Another Device -> Migrate Entire Chat History
3. WeChat on the old device should show the following now:
   
   
   4. Then leave the old phone untouched and log in to your WeChat on your new phone, tap Discover -> Scan to scan the qrcode from the old phone. It takes some minutes to load the chat history via local wlan from the old phone to the new phone. Thats it. 😀
   

 

How to create a bootable USB stick from a Acronis ISO file without Acronis Rescue Media Builder?

Very often I boot the Acronis True Image from a bootable USB stick to make a backup from a entire disk. The problem with Acronis True Image for me is that if I want to do recovery from an Acronis disk image I always forgot which Acronis version I originally used to create it.
My idea was to save the image file of the bootable USB stick, which was created by the Acronis Rescue Media Builder, in the same location as the disk image. So in case of recovery I just need to recreate the bootable USB stick from the USB image file and do not need to install the dedicated Acronis version on a machine first and then use the Rescue Media Builder to create a bootable USB stick. Fortunately Acronis Rescue Media Builder has the option to save the bootable image to an ISO file (e.g. AcronisBootablePEMedia.iso). So the only thing I need is an application which can create a bootable USB stick from the ISO file. The application I use for this is YUMI. Of course there are many other applications out there which can create a bootable USB stick from the ISO file too. The good thing with YUMI is that the app do not need to be installed and has a very small file size.
Make sure you choose "Try Unlisted ISO (GRUB)" in YUMI:

NTDTV frequency change

NTDTV had announced that there would be a frequency change in 1th August 2017. The new frequency is already in the frequency list.

References:

• 通告：新唐人欧洲观众请注意 卫星频道将调整 [PDF]

New page "Chinese Online TV" on my homepage online

As in my last post "Taiwanese TV channels stopped satellite broadcasting in the European area" mentioned many taiwanese tv channels stopped broadcasting on satellites in the european area. But many of them provide live streaming on the internet. So I decided to make the new "Chinese Online TV" page. Another thing is that I decided to make the new page in English because many chinese in Europe don't speak German, but share the same interest for watching chinese tv channels.

Taiwanese TV channels stopped satellite broadcasting in the European area

I know, it's not really the latest news, but I did't have time to keep my blog up to date recently. The fact is that most of the taiwanese TV channels stopped broadcasting on satellites in the European area at the beginning of 2017. Strictly speaking not only in the European area.
The good news is most of them had announced that they will broadcast through streaming platform like Youtube on the internet.
Futhermore the Taiwan Macro View TV had annouced that they stop broadcasting with 1. January 2018.

References and further reading:

• 上網觀看大愛 方便又穩定 [PDF]
• 2017年衛星訊號異動通知 [PDF]
• 臺灣宏觀電視自 2018 年 1 月 1 日起停播 [PDF]

台灣宏觀電視Taiwan Macroview TV moved to Eurobird 9 satellite

I have noticed that the Taiwan Macroview TV station has moved to another satellite called Eurobird 9. The good news is that there are currently 6 chinese TV stations on this satellite. In my opinion this fact makes this satellite to the most import satellite for receiving chinese satellite tv programs in Europe. I hope that the Da Ai TV station from Tzu-Chi will also join this satellite. If this is the case there is no reason for me to point to an additional satellite than the Eurobird 9 for watching chinese tv programs.

我在最近的一次調試中發現臺灣宏觀電視臺已經轉移到一個被稱為歐鳥9(Eurobird 9)衛星上，值得高興的是在這個衛星上有多達6個中文電視臺，這是目前為止我所發現到的華人節目最全的衛星平臺，我個人認為如果大愛台也能加入其中的話，那麼就可以用通過歐鳥9號集中接收多個中文電視臺代替目前的多個衛星分散接收，這樣既能提高接收效率也能在費用上減少開支。

References and further reading:

• How to receive Macroview Television [PDF]
• Eutelsat 9A