Verio IQ, "ISSUES" (batteries, strip fill issues)

Went through the recall, finally got the new meter and been having odd problems ever since...

Anybody ELSE having these issues? What (if anything) are you doing about any of them...

I get the VERY LOW battery message every couple of days! I use the charger(s), get the fully charged message, then two, maybe three days it happens again. Then it STOPS happening for a few weeks and then starts all doing it all over again. Aggravating....

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Then my personal pet peeve. Get a large drop of blood, put it in the strip, THEN get a STRIP FILL error message. Cant begin to tell you how many of then I've wasted. But it is a significant number... The droplets are NOT too small, but the strip/meter believes it is.

ANYBODY have "fixes" which they have used effectively with either of these problems?

I only have the strip fill problem, it most definitely makes me very angry.