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Apart from the gaming touch screen issue ICS is a tiny bit less stable than the rock solid GB. I've had Draw Something crash on me twice in a week (I draw half a dozen times a day). Also the updates for Google Maps make it less responsive and with more crashes without adding any significantly new features, I think the features they added were in the labs anyway.

I don't use the stock launcher so can't comment on the speed of that, I use Go Launcher and it's fast and smooth throughout. Like I said before there is a bit of lag when starting apps, but I can cope with that. In terms of the smoothness between homescreens and app drawer panes it feels like when I had GB supercharged with a 3rd party launcher, if that means anything to you.

Battery life I've had no issues with, no worse than with GB. I hear the FB plugins are battery killer but I don't use FB, Google+ all the way.

Camera I haven't noticed a difference with. It works. If you really want good pictures you want a DSLR, but that's a whole different discussion.

If your arc hasn't yet got the update you can still try to flash a different region's FW to it. It won't make much difference. A few of the regional apps might be different, e.g. the French FW has a French games app store pre-installed, but there are other regions too.

If you're interested I'm sure there's some guides around on xda to flash with flashtool. you don't need to have rooted or bootloader unlocked or anything. If you're struggling PM me.
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Posted: 2012-06-11 12:50:47
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My experience with ICS has been positive overall. I find my phone faster when opening and closing apps. I also like the cosmetic changes, i feel they're more up to date.

Brief summary of changes:

Camera: Less compression, higher file sizes, slightly improved quality (this is a bit subjective though). The interface is a bit worst in IMO.

Music Player: Same as GB, so no comments there. (Hoping someone ports the XS music player, which its better).

Lock Screen: Unlock with pattern, Slide, Pin or Password. Just have tried Slide and Pattern, the pattern layout is a bit different, and now, if you select it as you unlocking method, there is no longer the need to first slide from left to right to be able to draw the unlock pattern. When Slider is selected, you now have the option to activate the camera right from the lockscreen by sliding from right to left (previously you had the silence option). I find the camera more useful at that stage.

Another change in the lock screen is that when you have Slide selected as your lock screen, you now have access to the notification bar, and can see and call the items listed in the bar.

Gallery: There are now two galleries, the Xperia and the Android gallery. I find the Android gallery to be faster and nicer, I even unistalled the Xperia gallery and i like it so far. Trying to decide between Quickpic and the stock one currently.

Browser: Stock browser is quite faster than the one in GB, I even use it ocassionaly.

GApps: Nicer Gmail and Talk. I now feel Talk is more useable.

SApps: Email client's new interface is much nicer than before, I like the new font, and now the message details are better structured, for example, you now have one "tab" for the message and other for the attachments.

Widgets: They are now resizable, which is nice. I like the Calendar widget, very useful.

If you have the slider as your lock screen, you can now control the music from the lock screen (but once you are playing it, I'd like to be able to even start the player from the lock screen. Maybe an update includes this feature).

All in all, I think ICS is a step forward for us Arc users and would recommend it.

If you have any specific questions about the upgrade, Ill try to contribute to the answers.
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Posted: 2012-06-11 16:35:05
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4.0.4:

I have noticed in the G-mail client that when you flip the phone to horizontal view the top bar doesn't disappear when you scroll down like it did before.
When you put the phone in the Live Dock the clock doesn't start (as my settings). Manually it starts in horizontal mode, but when I go to the home screen it doesn't stay in horizontal as in GB.
I can't seem to separate the volume of the ringtone and messagetone.
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Posted: 2012-06-11 16:41:53
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I couldn't find it in the standard settings either. I previously used widgetsoid's volume levels pop-up widget thing and that allows separating the notification and ring volumes, but that doesn't stick anymore. I guess that option has been removed from the ROM for slimming ICS onto arc's small internals.
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Posted: 2012-06-12 06:42:21
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The "print screen" option by pressing the power button is gone. How do I do now?
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Posted: 2012-06-13 22:30:55
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@mange69: Press power + volume down simultaneously for about 2-3 seconds and thats it.
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Posted: 2012-06-13 22:39:35
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Tnx!
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Posted: 2012-06-13 23:11:41
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I'm unable to update firmware. My phone does not get detected on MTP mode. I tried removing SD Card and I can't find MTP app to clear the data. I can only see MTP extension and there is no option to clear data.

I'm using Sony Bridge 2.2 Mac, if anybody knows what to do, please help me out
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Posted: 2012-06-19 08:05:02
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Sorry, I'm not experienced with the Mac client. Have you tried the sonymobile.com support pages? or even their forums?
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Posted: 2012-06-19 10:56:03
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Can I just check if the ICS update is now generally available through Sony Update service or do I have to do something special?
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Posted: 2012-06-19 12:36:41
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