Well, i was fortunate enough to get this phone as a present. I didn't buy it. Thus i didn't do any research. Now I'm asking if people know how to access features that I had on my old phone. You're right, I must be way out of line.
Btw - the scheduled vibrate is for ppl who forget to turn their phone back on after putting it on silent. I'm sure it's happened to you, and it's not that difficult to program it in.
So I tried turning onto never sleep/lock mode - but i noticed that when you put it on sleep after 1 min, the screen goes ~1/2 dim before going completely off. Is there a way to get the screen to go ~1/2 dim w/o ever going into full sleep mode with the screen off?
PS - on the modern day TV they moved the buttons to the remote. The iphone doesn't transfer buttons from one spot to another, it REMOVES features from older phones. Wow, some people are idiots. Apple isn't perfect.
In case you didn't see the part where I wrote "This isn't blind Apple fanboyism", reread...
Anyway. Notice that I never specifically said that what you wanted was stupid, or that you should instead have a watch so that you can be classy (I haven't owned a watch in probably 10 years either). What I was saying is that it gets irritating to listen to people complain about features that supposedly every other phone has, but don't take into account that not every other phone has only a large screen as the mode of input and output. My old phone was a flip-phone with a front screen and guess what? That screen went to sleep after about 10 seconds...it might have been an option to leave on, but I never looked.
Like others have said, if you really need your phone to display the time 24/7 without touching a button, then turn off the auto-lock. Please forgive me if I sound like I'm sleeping with Steve (that black turtleneck just really gets me all hot inside), but maybe they just never thought that everyone needed instant access to the time, without the enormous difficulty of pressing a small button (even though their hand is on the phone to pull it out of their pocket anyway). Maybe if enough people complain, they can make it display the time with the backlight off, as someone suggested. Same goes for scheduled vibrate. Great. Cool. Neat idea. But really, can you honestly complain that this was not included, simply because your old phone had it?
Your line about "removing features" from older phones...again, these are trivial features at best, and not something that is an abomination if not included. I know, I know...every feature ever to have existed on any phone needs to be on every future model of every phone because at least six people used it on that other phone.
I wouldn't have even cared to respond if your original post wasn't in big bold letters, like some kind of crime had been committed on humanity because they neglected to leave the time on the screen or give you scheduled vibrate. If you had said "Hey does anyone know if it's possible to have the phone display the time at all times?", I would have glanced right over the post. But "
How can I get..." and "every other phone known to man has this" annoys me.
Call me an idiot all you want. See, here's the thing...I understand that it's STILL a revision 1 product. It's their first phone, their first attempt at a phone. Oh, God forbid they did not include every feature that everyone wanted right away. Just because I understand or accept the exclusion of a "feature" hardly defines me as an idiot or says that I support Apple in every decision. I agree that I would like to have seen a few more updates in the past few months with some more interesting features, but whatever..the SDK will bring plenty of them.
There have been a few decent suggestions on how to do what you want (as far as your screen-time debacle). I'm afraid the vibrate issue will have to wait for the SDK or a future Apple update.
Now, to go fawn over my Steve screensaver.