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Hi! Sorry to hear this - this is actually the first I've heard of the tape coming off and we've been shipping with it for 4 months or more now. I'd say lacquer/paint on the middle two contacts is definitely the most long-lived option though. I'd be amazed if that moved.
The issue is actually just the SWDIO pin (second from the right - https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2#hardware-swd) which has a something like a 10k pullup resistor to 3.3v on it inside the chip itself, which we can't turn off. It's always there though - CPU activity won't have an effect at all.
On a subsequent version I'm looking at having the pins disconnectable in software (and maybe usable as USB + GPIO), but realistically because that means a new board design we're looking at Bangle.js 3 (some way off!) rather than Bangle.js 2.2 :)