How is the Reception and Battery Life in Weak Cell Signal Areas with Galaxy Active 2 LTE?

[Michael1000]

This question is for those of you who have the Galaxy Active 2 LTE watch running the cellular function. The cell signal at my house is bad enough that sometimes my Galaxy Note 9 has no cell signal. I would rate it "barely acceptable". Right now, it is showing -118 dBm. For those of you with Galaxy Active 2 LTE watches, how does your cell reception of your watch compare to your cell phone (not in bluetooth mode, of course). Let me know what kind of cell phone you are comparing it to.

Also does a weak cell signal run the battery down a lot faster?

Thanks!

 

[Michael1000]

No one replied here. I bought a Galaxy Watch Active 2 LTE 44mm. The radio performance in poor cell signal conditions is almost as good as my Note 9. It's very close. I was very pleasantly surprised.

There is one big problem, though. The watch overheats in 1 to 30 seconds after a call connects. It happens every time. The overheat warning comes on the screen, and shortly thereafter, the watch goes into power saving mode. Airplane mode turns on and the call is dropped. This makes the LTE feature useless.

Also AT&T NumberSync is very poorly implemented. it lasted about two hours after getting it setup at the AT&T Store. I could never get it reconnected. It said "NumberSync is currently unavailable." Many people are having this problem.

I like the watch, but these flaws mean it has to be returned to Samsung for a refund. Samsung and AT&T have a lot of work to do before this is a polished device.