[Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

[d m gina]

No battery came with the sensor except what is in the inside.
Dar
Original message:
> as far as charging the Center stores here, yet, you replace the battery 
> is the AAA battery a one AAA battery and you replace it. I generally do 
> it loops month, so Joyce.i

> Sent from my iPhone

>> On Jun 18, 2023, at 2:41 PM, Patricia Maddix via Diabetes-Talk 
>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>> Darr,
>> Don’t feel bad. I do not yet have a G7, but from all that I am reading, 
>> it sounds like the screens are way too busy, and that frequently needed 
>> buttons are buried far to deep in menus.  These apps should be 
>> developed for ultimate simplicity and ease of getting to things that 
>> are needed on a daily basis. It should not be assumed that everyone 
>> using them is high-tech, or if they are, they just don’t want to devote 
>> this much time to the app. I am sure we would all agree that we would 
>> like to spend as little time as possible managing our diabetes and 
>> still be able to do a good job.
>> Patricia

>> Sent from my iPhone

>>> On Jun 18, 2023, at 11:31 AM, d m gina via Diabetes-Talk 
>>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>>> Oh this is good news.
>>> I have my senser on, but don't have anything going, don't understand 
>>> all of it to try it.
>>> I admire folks who can do this.
>>> Dar
>>> Original message:
>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>> Okay, I did as I said I would.
>>>> First, I did get the QR code by taking a picture. Wow! It was a bit twiddly
>>>> fiddly. My phone didn't vibrate or make noise when I got it though. I just
>>>> got the message about pairing. The first time I got it, I wasn't sure I had
>>>> gotten it, because it left me in the place where I'd enter the code
>>>> manually. So being unsure, I backed out and did it again. The second time I
>>>> got the pairing request, it still felt just a little funny where I was left,
>>>> but I eventually did find the start button and off it went. But I was
>>>> thrilled to see that unlike the G6, we had a longer time to play with the
>>>> "take picture" mode and it didn't time out. Woo hoo!
>>>> I had put the new sensor on 1 hour before I let the old one expire. I wanted
>>>> as littler interruption of what I was doing, so it worked out that way. I
>>>> think I ended up with about a minute of no sensor readings, so that was
>>>> pretty cool.
>>>> I'm also playing with some of the alerts. I'm trying out the new change in
>>>> the high alert where I've told it that my reading must be high for half an
>>>> hour before bugging me, so any quick post-meal spikes won't bug me. Since
>>>> urgent low wasn't kicking in till my reading was around 60, I added in a low
>>>> and set it to 80. Hopefully this will keep me from crashing so much.
>>>> I'm still not overly impressed with the alarms. Most of them are like those
>>>> in the G6.
>>>> And I still have a bit of difficulty getting that itty bitty piece of tape
>>>> off.
>>>> But thanks for the nudge on the cool new discoveries. I still want my stop
>>>> or replace button and a better blue tooth. But I did enjoy playing with the
>>>> good stuff.
>>>> Now we'll see how the sensor behaves all week.
>>>> Thanks for the tidbits.
>>>> Veronica



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