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Having recently being diagnosed with sleep apnea, I just received my CPAP machine. CPAP stands for Continuous Positive Air Pressure. Basically, It’s a machine that ensures that I am continually able to breathe throughout the night by maintaining continuous air pressure.

My first night on the CPAP machine went much better than I expected. During my sleep-study, I was put on a machine so they could calculate the required pressure required for my machine. The machine was uncomfortable to the point that the mask actually hurt my nose. I was quite annoyed believing that was a typical “CPAP” night.

With my own machine, I slept throughout the night with no discomfort at all. The mask on the unit is much softer and fits properly. The unit has a humidifier module too which seems quite effective (unlike my standalone humidifier I bought a few months back).

I’ve already taken the initiative to learn what I can about the machine. I don’t recommend that anybody with a machine change any settings, especially when your health is at risk by doing so, but I’ve already learned how to re-program the machine, and am in the process of setting up software to read the data recorded by the machine. I am curious exactly what it records and what information is being given to the doctors. It’s amazing how simple it is to unlock. I thought that I would need special software

unlock the unit (not that I would mess with it’s settings as I’m not a doctor/sleep specialist), and found Aromatherapy options that are compatible (as well as found ones I would have thought okay to use that can actually damage the filters.)

On Friday, Sprint had posted that an over the air update was available for download, though requesting the file wasn’t successful. I checked again Monday, only to find that the update had been removed. This was the long awaited Froyo (Android 2.2) update and it appeared to be up for an early test drive. Research later confirmed that was the case, but apparently sprint was only test-driving it. Leaked Sprint documents confirmed the details of this process.

I broke chat on the sprint site to see if the download was still available anywhere. I got one rep who knew nothing about it and another who insisted that he couldn’t give me their findings in the test run, but the official launch date of the application was pushed beyond the originally expected launch date of today. Well, today I got the update, as scheduled by Sprint’s early plan. It’s great that I have the application, but I’m getting really tired of Sprint’s customer service lying to it’s customers. Which is better? Lying to get the customer off the phone, or simply telling the truth and stating “We’re not allowed to comment on that, as it has not been released to the public yet.”.