Two features that I used often that disappeared after the 4.1.2 upgrade were the timer (countdown) feature of the clock/alarm function and the sounds to silent without having to undo each and every notifying ring tone from the tune you have to silent. The timer feature as part of the clock/alarm function was a great feature for those of us involved in public speaking and presentations as it was a great way to be sure you stay to your time slot and I don't understand why they would have removed this. This upgrade also removed the ability to turn your phone on "silent" while in business meetings without having to undo your normal ring tone so that it was a one-touch way to silence your phone while in meetings, conferences, etc, but now that is gone too (and the airplane function isn't what I want because then nothing comes in whether silent or otherwise). The only way you can put it on silent is to change your ring tone to silent and do this for each and every messaging ring tone (texts, calls, emails, etc.). The one-touch silent feature was nice. There is a screen now in sound settings where you can "scale back" the volume/sounds for each of the types of notifications, but for some reason, some of these will automatically increase their volume without you manually telling it to increase again. I used to be able to silence my texts coming in while on phone calls because they would beep while on the call which would disrupt my voice and the sound of the call. Now, putting those dial-back volumes does not keep the text beeps from interfering with the phone call sound. I don't know how to silence those twitter texts now while on the phone and my colleagues say it is very disruptive to the call when I have these tweets coming in. Again, I don't understand why they would have eliminated these 2 very convenient features. Did the developers not talk to any users before eliminating these features?! I want them back!!! ASAP.
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