# The last two G6 sensors have stopped working after 10 days exactly using xDrip+, but didn't used to **URL:** \ **Category:** C/GM\ **Tags:** xdrip\ **Created:** [November 26, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-last-two-g6-sensors-have-stopped-working-after-10-days-exactly-using-xdrip-but-didnt-used-to/8763 "2019-11-26T17:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![jbowler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@jbowler](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jbowler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-last-two-g6-sensors-have-stopped-working-after-10-days-exactly-using-xdrip-but-didnt-used-to/8763/17 "2019-11-30T02:47:53Z")
> [@Thomas](#): > > I am wondering if it might be better to just skip over that one and go right to the 8Hxxxx If you have the option then I suggest trying the 8G and if it doesn’t work reliably immediately swapping to the 8H. If I had a hoard I would, at this point, just swap to the 8H on the next sensor, but I don’t; I’ve only got one transmitter (the 8H) as backup. Since you are using a different setup and since I suspect the problems are in xDrip+ I would certainly want to try it to see what happens. I keep coming back to this other fud thread: > [@Future of Diabetic Engineering](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/future-of-diabetic-engineering/8747): > > Dexcom and Xdrip+ are great tools for managing Diabetes. In the interview given by Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer: “You’ve got to understand, medical device companies and hacking, those two concepts don’t go together well. So we were very upset and we were pretty aggressive speaking out that this is not a good thing. “But in all reality, the hackers are Dexcom patients. They purchase product from us, they’re so dedicated to it that they use it and try to make their lives better by developing tools th… It seems to me that Sayer was reacting to a situation where products not under Dexcom’s control reacted to quite reasonable changes in the G6 communications protocol by doing bad things. Of course I’m just guessing, but I have experience of working for one manufacturer and implementing a piece of perfectly correct software which produced a perfectly valid GIF that terminated another manufacturer’s buggy GIF implementation. After they refused to fix the bug I had no real choice but to produce sub-optimal GIFs for their benefit. It was annoying. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-last-two-g6-sensors-have-stopped-working-after-10-days-exactly-using-xdrip-but-didnt-used-to/8763)._