"Upgrading" your smartphone for Diabetes apps that are phasing your phone out...
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Once I got my pods, about 6 months or so after I was using the Dexcom G6 sensors, I was forced to go to the 2nd hand market to buy a phone on the (at the time) very small list of compatible phones for the Ominpod insulin system.
Both of these products took the time and money to develop their own transceivers, with the Ominpod's being as large as a standard smartphone, and the Dexcom device coming in at only around roughly half that size.
But neither of these devices, made by different companies, had any cross talk capabilities put into their own EXPENSIVE products. They appear to have said fuck it and just agreed that they don't have to do any of that and they'll rely on their already heavily taxed customers to keep up and upgrade their phones whenever they want to force that issue.
I didn't even realize that Dexcom does this as well until the other day. I got a message saying that sometime this month they're ending service on the phone I otherwise do not need, whicht I paid $90 on ebay for not even 2 years ago. So now my phone is still all good with the extremely picky list that Omnipod had out there 2 years ago, but no longer will be compatible with the Sensors.
So, just in case, I did find the two old devices and got them charged up. I was happy to see that even though they haven't been used in several years they both appear to be working and are able to maintain a charge. I haven't tested any communication with them though because that can lead to disaster and throwing out your current sensor and pod if you screw things up. I'm only going to do this all when and if I know I need to.
I wasn't really sweating it. I figured with a little research and tinkering I could roll back my current app to an older version. I also thought that since I never keep these things online anymore, it still is possible that without a constant network connection monitoring it, the app isn't programmed to stop on its own without the company forcing it to stop on the EOS date. (I was both right and wrong about that, as I discovered by reading the Update notes of the product below. I would have had to roll back to an earlier version no matter what, because the new versions put a legal disclaimer that you can't get around without an online connection, which would also kill the functionality of the app no matter what version I was using).
I found something a lot better than any of those solutions though...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dexcom/comments/y4vixk/oc_build_your_own_dexc
om_app_update_now_with_g7/
[OC] Build Your Own Dexcom App update- now with G7 support
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Update Nov 15, 2024
Updated G7 to v1.6.1.4537c. This is the same base version as before but it has a bypass to the legal agreements screen. This bypasses the server side block Dexcom put in place that kept users on older versions of the app from getting past the legal agreements screen in the startup wizard. The is no reason to update if you already have the app installed and past the startup screens.
Update May 4, 2024
Updated G6US base to v1.13.0.2. With this update, Dexcom has fixed the quick glance notification so it is visible in dark mode.
Update Apr. 20, 2024
Couple updates :
Updated G6INT base to v1.12.1.0.
Removed the build option for the G5. If you still use and need the G5 app, let me know and I can reenable it.
Update Dec. 9, 2023
Couple updates for the G6 apps:
Updated G6INT base to v1.12.0.2. This version should be compatible with Android 14 and the workaround is no longer necessary
Updated G6US base to v1.12.0.1. If you use the quick glance notification and dark mode on Android I would skip this version as they have made the notification hard to read in dark mode.
Update Oct. 5, 2023
Couple updates including:
Updated G6 US base to v1.11.2.1.
Fixes around Dropbox issues that caused the outage over the last couple days. The G7 build was moved to AndroidFileHost instead of Dropbox to reduce bandwidth.NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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I'm REALLY hoping that this guy or somebody else as talented has done the same type of thing for the insulin pods.
To be honest, I don't really see the appeal for this particular app beyond just getting it to work on your phone and avoiding some bullshit arbitrary changes that Dexcom makes disallowing any use on phones that they don't approve. It's really a simple device that doesn't have much in the way of necessary options compared to the insulin pod delivery system.
Obviously, the huge major plus here is not even having to go back and use an older version of the app to avoid their legalese and keep your monitor working right, which was part of his last update. Outside of that, the only one that has caught my eye was the "swipe to remove notification" so you don't have to go into the app and do it. That's a nice little feature. Especially since one of the features you are unable to opt out of when putting the Omnipod app on your phone is a 4-digit pin to unlock the phone.
But the problem is, even that feature doesn't really mean all that much, because the Dexcom app isn't really all that annoying, and the few times that it does annoy you are actually things you SHOULD be looking into.
The insulin pod app is miserable though. I'd love to find out when I'm doing this that they've already created their own Omnipod app as well. I can't even use my Dexcom app without unlocking the phone, because Omnipod simply will refuse to run unless you do. (And then, right after you've logged into the phone, the Omnipod app itself will require you to enter that 4-digit pin a 2nd time, every single time).
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