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My phone scanned the sensor just fine. Waited the hour and it just have signal lost. Tried a manual scan and it just said sensor failed.

I love tech, I'm very comfortable using pretty much anything so reasonably confident it was nothing I did.

They're sending another sensor so will see where I get to. Got the Dexcom on order too and will compare.

The DSNs at the Northern General are all over anything that will help patients so no concern as such that I'll hit barriers. Just wanted to take the best route in for it 🙂
That is exactly what the one sensor I had that didn't work, did.
I have returned it to Abbot (they have already supplied a replacement), but it comes over as the sensor responding OK to the initial connection, but then hanging when it starts trying to actually send data. I suspect there may be a small number of the main processor chips going around, that perhaps hang when reading the connection from the filament. May even be as simple as a fault damaging the filament when it inserts. What was interesting, was that when I removed this one, the filament fell off, but that has never happened with any other unit.
Bluetooth failures do happen, but the system recovers from these OK. When I tried the Libre2+, it was more frequent than with the Libre3, and on a couple of occasions it did not seem to self recover, till I actually scanned the sensor again. The Libre3 recovers every time. They happen for me, since I do things like arc welding, and nothing based on RF comms, works when you are doing this!. However in my normal day, I work in a lab, where the only problem is the Bluetooth can interfere with some of the sensors we use. When systems are working at PPB levels, introducing a source of RF is a problem.
My biggest problem at the moment, is the Libre3+ is not available in the UK. I have an allergic reaction to the Libre2 and 2+ (it is to the areas of plastic between the filament and the edge of the adhesive, or to the filament itself - though I would have thought this was the same material on the 2+ and the 3). Blister filling this gap. Takes weeks to heal, though I heal well normally. The 3 only has a tiny space here and I don't think my skin actually touches anything but the adhesive on these.
 
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