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Hello 71 year old man have been Type 1 insulin dependant for the last 29 years, have recently completed six month trial and accepted on to Libre 2 sensors with N H S financing cost of sensors. When on the trial had lots of sensors failing to work for 14 days or refusing to work at all, but up to now first 3 months all sensors have worked perfectly. My question is concerning using I Phone to read sensor I am currently using the FreeStyle Libre 2 Reader, I have an I phone 7 which is the minimum required to read the sensor. I have downloaded various tag reader from the app store but none seem to work. Do I have to pay a subscription for the tag reader to work on the Phone, don't want to be scammed !!!!!!!!. Thanks for any replies.
 
Thanks for your reply I will investigate via the link you have sent . New to smart phones My daughter gave me her old I phone I have been using a Nokia brick for years
 
Wotisname said:
Thanks for your reply I will investigate via the link you have sent . New to smart phones My daughter gave me her old I phone I have been using a Nokia brick for years
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You can search in the App Store instead, if that's more convenient. But you're looking for FreeStyle LibreLink rather than anything else.
 
Hope you get on well with it @Wotisname

For what it‘s worth, I successfully used the LibreLink app on my ageing iPhone 7 for a few years (I switched to a different CGM a few years ago). The data display options and automatic data-upload were better than the reader - but personally I found it less easy to find the right spot to get a scan, so ended up using my phone 3x a day, and using the reader for alarms and the majority of scans.

The reader seems to be able to ‘grab‘ a scan from a much greater distance somehow?
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Hope you get on well with it @Wotisname

For what it‘s worth, I successfully used the LibreLink app on my ageing iPhone 7 for a few years (I switched to a different CGM a few years ago). The data display options and automatic data-upload were better than the reader - but personally I found it less easy to find the right spot to get a scan, so ended up using my phone 3x a day, and using the reader for alarms and the majority of scans.

The reader seems to be able to ‘grab‘ a scan from a much greater distance somehow?
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I have LibreLink on the phone but have scanned the sensor with the entire phone but nothing showing so far !! But I have started the new sensor with the reader ,so will the phone not recognise the sensor as I did not start it with the phone ?
 
If you start the sensor with the reader you can use the phone to scan but will only get the alarms on the reader.

If you start the sensor with the phone you can’t use the reader but get alarms on the phone
 
Wotisname said:
I have LibreLink on the phone but have scanned the sensor with the entire phone but nothing showing so far !! But I have started the new sensor with the reader ,so will the phone not recognise the sensor as I did not start it with the phone ?
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If you start a sensor with the reader, you can scan with the reader or your phone (or that should work, anyway), but only the reader will offer alarms. If you start with the phone, you can only scan with that phone (and the phone will offer alarms).

On the phone it needs the screen unlocked and (I think) the LibreLink app open. I believe the top edge of the phone is where you want to scan (for iPhones; on Android phones I think it varies by phone).

Here's a (rather old) video showing someone using an iPhone:
 
Thanks for that video Bruce, the young lad explained that you can activate the new sensor using the Libre reader and then scan the sensor again within the 60 minute window ( before the sensor starts to record data ) with the I phone so I will try that method when I apply a new sensor.
 
Wotisname said:
Thanks for that video Bruce, the young lad explained that you can activate the new sensor using the Libre reader and then scan the sensor again within the 60 minute window ( before the sensor starts to record data ) with the I phone so I will try that method when I apply a new sensor.
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The 60 minute window no longer exists: you should be able to start using your phone any time after starting it. (As I said, it's a rather old video.)
 
Yes I found it quite useful to activate both phone and reader to have the options. It’s a bit frustrating that the first device is the only one to get the alarms, (other CGM have no such qualms, I can have Dex alarms on both connected pump and iPhone).

But the Libre2 with alarms was a big step-up from Libre 1 for me.
 
Bruce Stephens said:
The 60 minute window no longer exists: you should be able to start using your phone any time after starting it. (As I said, it's a rather old video.)
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As mentioned before I am starting new sensor with Free Style Libre 2 Reader on account of so far not being able to get I Phone to function, I STILL see a message on the READER screen that tells me sensor will start to work in 60 minutes !!!!! and it will not work until sixty minutes have past .Now that I know ( after watching the young lad on the video showing how to link THE READER AND AN OLDER I PHONE AT THE SAME TIME DURING THAT SIXTY MINUTE WINDOW ) I can scan the sensor for a SECOND time using my I PHONE , so hopefully I will have two devices that can read the sensor. A back-up , belt and braces !. Hope I haven't offended any one with long winded requests . 🙂 I still intend to use the READER as main device until I know the Phone is reliable. Thanks
 
Wotisname said:
I STILL see a message on the READER screen that tells me sensor will start to work in 60 minutes
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Ah. Yes, sorry. When you start a new sensor there is a 60 minute warm up period. Once upon a time, if you wanted to also read the sensor with a phone you had to scan it during that 60 minutes, but that restriction has gone: you can now start the sensor with the reader and scan with that, and days later scan it with a phone and start also using the phone.

However, there's obviously nothing at all wrong in scanning with your phone during that 60 minutes warmup.
 
Hello I have given up trying to scan Freestyle 2 sensor with my aging I phone 7 ( the info from Abbott states I phone 7 is the minimum required to read the sensor but mine does not seem to work) I don't really want / need an all singing / dancing I phone , my question is, anyone using a Google Pixel phone to read their sensor, if so which model and does it allow to to also use the Freestyle Reader 2 in tandem with the phone , obviously which ever device you use to start the sensor, only that one will give alarms. Which is what I have been trying to do with I phone 7
 
@Wotisname I have used a Pixel 5 with Libre 2 and no trouble.
I have not used it for a while as I now use a CGM that talks to my pump but, if I remember correctly, the NFC receiver is close to the camera lens on the back of the phone. It was easier to find that my previous Huawei phone.

I now have a Pxel 7 which I used with one Libre 2 (when I ran out of other CGMs) and had no problem scanning.
 
helli said:
@Wotisname I have used a Pixel 5 with Libre 2 and no trouble.
I have not used it for a while as I now use a CGM that talks to my pump but, if I remember correctly, the NFC receiver is close to the camera lens on the back of the phone. It was easier to find that my previous Huawei phone.

I now have a Pxel 7 which I used with one Libre 2 (when I ran out of other CGMs) and had no problem scanning.
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Thanks for your prompt reply Helli I have noticed the Google Pixel phones don't seem to have the inflated r.r.p. some other phones carry.
 
Wotisname said:
anyone using a Google Pixel phone to read their sensor, if so which model and does it allow to to also use the Freestyle Reader 2 in tandem with the phone , obviously which ever device you use to start the sensor, only that one will give alarms.
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I'm using a Pixel 6a which works fine. (They all support also using the reader with the constraint you mention: if you want to use both you must initialise with the reader and only the reader can have alarms.)

I find scanning works OK just in the middle of the back of the phone. (I find LibreLink only sometimes gives any sound and never vibrates to indicate it's successfully scanned. I've no idea why and someone else here said it all works fine for them.)

(I also use a side loaded Juggluco which steals the alarms from the reader and gives CGM behaviour (BG appears on the lock screen and so on without any scanning).)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
I'm using a Pixel 6a which works fine. (They all support also using the reader with the constraint you mention: if you want to use both you must initialise with the reader and only the reader can have alarms.)

I find scanning works OK just in the middle of the back of the phone. (I find LibreLink only sometimes gives any sound and never vibrates to indicate it's successfully scanned. I've no idea why and someone else here said it all works fine for them.)

(I also use a side loaded Juggluco which steals the alarms from the reader and gives CGM behaviour (BG appears on the lock screen and so on without any scanning).)
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Thanks for the reply Bruce not sure what a Juggluco is but sounds a clever device if it can steal the alarms from the reader and transfer them to the phone , is it a piece of bluetooth magic ?
 
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