Holiday Disaster With Freestyle

Copernicus

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Second post of the day but here goes.
Whilst recently on holiday in Crete I was caught out in a thunderstorm and got soaked to the skin. My Libre reader was as usual in my shirt breast pocket and it too got a good soaking. I soon found out the machine had completely stopped working, even after I had dried it out. I was a bit annoyed that had happened but thought that I would just have to use my APP on my smart phone. Nope! It kept telling me to activate a new sensor but as the one I was using had only been in use 3 days I was reluctant to give up on it. After searching the internet I came across another APP that was free, downloaded it and hey presto it worked. I won't post the name of the APP in case those kind people at Abbott Laboratories try to block it but I will say it is actually a better APP than the one Abbott recommend. If any one wants to know it's name pvt me a message and I will pass it on.
Abbott really need to sort their own APP out.
 

porl69

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If you scan with the reader then the Abbotts app on your phone needs to be scanned during the warm up hour else it will not work. I have not used any other app so cannot comment on them
 

Copernicus

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I did try and activate the sensor with my phone within the hour when I first applied it but kept getting the message already activated.
 

porl69

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I did try and activate the sensor with my phone within the hour when I first applied it but kept getting the message already activated.

Never had that before! I believe Abbots are fully aware of the likes of X-drip and Glimp (my son used to work for Abbotts) and they are not at all worried about it as they are still selling more and more sensors! I would still phone Abbots when you get home and report the failure to them