Hi all I love hacking my diabetes a stuff and I get annoyed that we can’t restart our G7 sensors though most of you won’t like the process.
I hardly ever did it in g6 but I liked being able to.
So I ran my g7 sensor to the time it told me to change it but gave me a grace period. I don’t know if this matters but this is what I did.
I stopped the sensor on my pump and on my dexcom as they both stop when you stop on either device.
Then I pulled out the pda that came with i, that I never used before and I paired it with this old sensor because yes I kept the code. And it’s working but it won’t let me join on my pump or the dex ap.
So yes it can be done but then it’s no use to me with a pump, but if you use g7 all alone and you have a pda. Then you can use the phone, then switch to the pda for another run.
No idea how long it will last but so far 2 days.
I inserted a new sensor for my pump and they are both working now with different readings. 107 new one and 99 old one and my finger stick was 109. So there u go
All that stuff about an internal clock possibly not true. I did get a low battery warning on day 9 , and I’ve see that before. But this is. Day 12 and I’m still getting readings.
Edit. I was thinking this through. My pump is a medical device and the pda is a medical device so I’m able to switch medical devices to fool the sensor. But if you have only the pda. It won’t see your phone as a medical device so might not work, but ALAS
IM HALF WAY THERE. maybe if you have a second pda you would be golden.
Dag nabbit. ! I forgot that I used different accounts on my pump as on the pda receiver. Not sure if that matters but I have two accounts when I switched to the g7 I couldn’t get the old one to work so I made a new one, but then my nurse practitioner was irritated my history was missing, so I managed to connect to the original one. Again no idea if it matters but right now I’m running in 2 separate accounts and I’ll try it with the same account after this finally gives up nd I do it again in the current new sensor
My sensor finally crapped out. The battery just wasn’t able to keep going. I got 4 days of extra readings and they were pretty good readings too. In reality I am not going to carry a receiver around with me, and if I can’t get it to talk to my pump it isn’t really useful. People without pumps might benefit from it though. I can see if you are in your last sensor and the new ones have not arrived, doing this again.
I haven’t made the switch yet, and the restart thing is a minor tick against it in my case, though not a huge one. I used to do it more frequently just b/c changing sensors when you’ve got a nice location and good data going seems like a waste. Plus it’s a good way to build up a reserve. I’ve gotten out of the habit, though just a week ago I did it for the first time in years because my delivery was delayed for some reason and my current session was ending. Didn’t want to get one out of said reserve stash. I thought I remembered how to do it, but fortunately there are lots of posts on that here, still. It is nice to be able to do it if you need to. Of course x-Drip eliminates that problem with G6 if you don’t mind the nerdiness of getting it all set up. Do we know if it’s G7 compatible?
I decided the best method for g6 is to slide a test strip under the contacts of the transmitter. Wait 10 min then pull out the strip and tell it to start a new sensor.
Briliant! I did the old test-strip-slide along the edge trick to get the tray to release the transmitter, which is a real PITA. Probably 1/2 of why I don’t bother any more. So do you slide it under from the front of the tray or how do you do that?
Alas a sentence paints a billion pictures almost all of them meaningless.
Take the transmitter and look at it carefully then scoop a sensor out of the trash and look at it too; just two pictures and you will understand!
My approach when I had to do it was to use two test strips (the pictures will make it obvious why) and just wait until the sensor ejected the transmitter.
There are probably engineering words for the precise devices which hold the transmitter in to a G6 sensor but I don’t know them and I don’t care to learn them; the picture is enough.
I’ve chosen to remain on G6 until forced to G7. Living in earthquake country, I have built up a reserve in case normal deliveries are impossible for a while. I also buy an extra transmitter or two from a Canadian online pharmacy.
I use two strips, one on each side of the sensor, inserted in that small gap on each side of the sensor. Transmitter just pops out. I wait a while, then (re)start as if I had put in a new one. The procedure take about 30 seconds, but the down side is the G6 2 hour warmup. I only restart a sensor once and have found (on my body at least) I get accurate readings for 20 days.
When I switch to G7, I plan to continue using my G6 inventory in order built up a reserve of G7. I may try Timothy’s G7 restart just once (don’t use a pump), but with the battery situation, that is not likely to allow much buildup of inventory for an emergency.
