Using two watches?

[kikbxr1969]

I thought I had read where some were keeping their old watches and using both with the auto switch. My question is whether any of those people are using two LTE versions of the watch. If so, are you just using the old watch in buetooth only? Or are you constantly activating/deactivating the watches when you switch?

Thinking of keeping my Galaxy Watch 1 for wearing on occasion now that I have the Watch 3. I think in most cases, I would be near enough to the phone for the BT to work. But just curious as to how that works for switching when you have LTE.

 

[ehosey2]

I have had the Galaxy watch for about 2 years. It has active LTE service with AT&T. I just received my Galaxy Watch 3 direct from Samsung. I have not activated the LTE service for it as I am testing out the battery life before I decide to switch so I am using BT only. The Gear Wearable application can sense which watch you have picked up it seems and in my experience so far both are active. But, the Galaxy Watch it will switch to LTE Standalone mode when the Galaxy Watch 3 is connected, thereby both getting notifications. If I use one or the other, I will put one of them in Goodnight Mode so it isn't vibrating with notifications. I am leaning towards switching the LTE service over to the new one.

 

[ehosey2]

And just to clarify, I am using both watches with my Note20 Ultra.

 

[JTorresFLA]

I thought I had read where some were keeping their old watches and using both with the auto switch. My question is whether any of those people are using two LTE versions of the watch. If so, are you just using the old watch in buetooth only? Or are you constantly activating/deactivating the watches when you switch?

Thinking of keeping my Galaxy Watch 1 for wearing on occasion now that I have the Watch 3. I think in most cases, I would be near enough to the phone for the BT to work. But just curious as to how that works for switching when you have LTE.

I have both the Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Watch 3. Both are LTE. When I got my original Galaxy s3 watch with LTE, T-Mobile gave me a free line and I keep moving the line to the new watch. I only have the LTE active on the GW3. I rarely use it anyway.

Every few days I switch watches and turn off the one going on the charger and turn on the one coming off of the charger. Galaxy Wear usually figures it out or I will tell it to connect to the new watch. Galaxy Wear and Samsung Health do a good job of combining the data without duplicating.

 

[swebb]

My results with 2 watches were not as good. The gear app was inconsistent in recognizing which watch was currently being used. Many times I had to manually connect. Not a big deal to me as I never intended to use both watches long term. Eventually sold the older watch.