• ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I connect my glucometer (Dexcom G6) with my phone and I’m assuming lineage wouldn’t work with it.

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      1 year ago

      Lineage is just Android, however, some apps (Usually banking apps are the worst offender) throw a fit running on rooted/custom roms, though it’s usually bypass able with varying amounts of effort. I would not expect a glucometer app to have issues, but I’ve seen apps throw that fit for less in the past.

      Being a medical thing, I’d advise you to pickup a cheap used Android phone that’s also on the supported list to test out your app first, or at least have an alternative means of monitoring it

      I did some Google searching and it came up… inconclusive, though the Dexcom website has this blurb on the compatible phones section

      “You can use this app on any OS that meets the minimum requirements, but Dexcom recommends not updating to a new OS before it’s listed here.”

      And the only minimum requirement for Android is that it’s v10. I also didn’t see mention of root/or “unauthorized OSes” on that page and alot of the times they will put something like that if a companies app will scan for root/custom roms

      So, you might be fine

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        1 year ago

        Does NFC still work? (I know that low key defeats the purpose of a privacy oriented android build but yeah)

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          1 year ago

          afaik it should. but why do you think NFC defeats privacy? it is quite short range, isn’t it? having google services is much worse

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            1 year ago

            Well, I was mostly concerned about google knowing where I’m shopping. I know using google pay is lazy buy I’m not perfect…

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              1 year ago

              oh google pay, I see. but that’s not NFC’s fault, it’s useful for other things too.

              speaking about it, I’m not sure google pay will work. but I never used it, so I don’t know for sure, but there’s this suspicion after what banks do

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        1 year ago

        Last time I checked there was a relatively narrow selection of phones the Dexcom app works with. Pretty much just iphone, galaxy, and pixel. I just checked again and there’s a lot more now, so maybe it’ll work?