I bought a Code Free when I was diagnosed 13 months ago and it has been my constant companion. However lately it’s been forgetting the time despite trying new batteries. This in itself doesn’t bother me as I feed my readings into MySugr so have a record of my readings with correct time stamps, but I’m just worried it’s a sign the meter is about to die. Has anyone else run a Code Free with the wrong time but everything else is ok for any length of time?
Yes I get this from mine, I get forgetful as I get older, but then I have more miles on my clock compared to my SD. There does seem to be a problem, but difficult to think what is causing it.
Not a battery problem, but my SD is also losing readings not just time. Must be a memory chip dying. I was an electroncs designer, and we used Flash Memory chips, and these have a lifecycle limitation in that like my IR probs in my body, these memory chips need to be increasingly overwritten to get the info to be stored. Basically, cheap commercial memory chips have a limited number of times you can write to them. There are design techniques to extend their life, but that would need an OS change to the meter.
Think there will be a time to retire these meters, and it seems to be they last a year then start to fade.