Well, I mean wasn’t fine that it wasn’t a guaranteed or non backup. I had a backup, and it all worked out in the end which I’m thankful for. Didn’t look like it was gonna happen during that long long breakdown though.
Hey sorry, I didn’t mean to accuse you of doing something “wrong” although I admit my post read that way. My reaction was simply that I had been very stressed about this weekend (largely due to the stories I’d read on this board) and now, having been through it twice, I personally would never have concern about getting a BG again if I took the same steps I did in my post.
No doubt there are people who are less lucky, but I genuinely think those are a minority of experiences and it’s not worth losing sleep over (like I did Friday night). If you’ve had a bad experience, that sucks and I’m sorry, and you’ll obviously disagree. But I really just want to reassure the average lurker that the conventional wisdom on this thread worked for our group twice and for the ~ 6 other groups we talked to this weekend, so there’s no need to worry that you’re going to “mess something up”
Perhaps a better way to put it is: if you read this thread and know what you’re doing, then you have put yourself in the best possible position. There is no point in worrying as if you follow the conventional wisdom on this thread, you’re likely to get a boarding group, and if something goes wrong such that you don’t, it was out of your control anyways.
Anyways I’m glad you got to ride. If you post your experience (where you were, what happened with the app, what type of phone) it’d be helpful for the collective community to narrow down what the best strategy is.
I’ll also add that my whole experience is using iPhone and 5G. WiFi definitely seems riskier, and I know some people unfortunately have to use WiFi. I have no comment on Android, but we had zero “app crashes” across 5 iPhones and 2 days so I wonder if that is more common on Android. And obviously having multiple people/phones helps reduce the damage if one phone does crash, which I of course acknowledge is not an option for everyone.