When I am in clock and enter bedside mode my screen dims as I would expect then after a couple of minutes it goes black. I assume that this is the backlight time elapsing. I would expect that in bedside mode the screen would dim and not black out. I got it to not black out once but can not re-create this.
Unfortunately I tried that a few times and it still blacks out. I even tried changing the backlight timeout in the Screen/Keyboard options to see if that made any difference but no luck.
it needs to be plugged in or else it will fade out
Agreed. Unless the Storm is plugged in and charging, it will automatically fade to conserve battery power. If it's left on all night, even in bedside mode, without a power source, it will die.
It appears to be working now that I changed the option when charging.
Weird though... you would think that if you manually select clock mode, go to options, select bedside mode that it would perform bedside mode and not black out the screen.