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[Xperia Arc General] itsbvka:
Bluetooth with random PIN

The only real problem I've found so far is that bluetooth does not want to pair with car audio systems that generate a random PIN. The pop-up to enter the PIN never shows and as such the pair won't work. All other bluetooth seems to be fine so far.
[Xperia Arc General] AtxX:
Only truly annoying problem is faulty screen drivers, because ArcS has a bit different hardware.
[Xperia Arc General] migueln:
I have a realy good one: When playing Reckless Racing 2, sometimes when waiting for the race to begin, it goes back to the homescreen (only shows part of the wallpaper), then says the SIM card has been removed and forces me to reboot the phone.

I think it's amazing to wait so long and still get this kind of bugs. Although this one seems not to be SE's fault since I've also seen other people complainting about the same on other devices.

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Another one: when listening to music if you press volume up or down, a volume slider shows up on the screen. I almost went deaf twice today because I was websurfing, the volume slider showed up and I pressed the place where the maximum was because that was where I wanted to press on the webpage.

This is just stupid and dangerous! Didn't this hapen to anyone at SE while testing??

It's an Arc S
[Xperia Arc General] irononreverse:
Thanks, I'm doing a fresh wipe now.
[Xperia Arc General] Jurga:
So what should i do leave 2.3.4 firmwire + rooted.... Or do the ICS update?
[Xperia Arc General] ArmorD:
I really hate that "function" in ICS, that when you download an app, it always adds it on your homescreen.

And that's not all, it takes ten pop-ups to finish it("No more room in this home screen" X10 & "Shortcut added")

I am using Apex launcher, but it also happens in Launcher 360

Seriously! :mad:
[Xperia Arc General] rec71:
It's a setting in the play app! Just turn it off...
[Xperia Arc General] soldiers33:
anyone else having issues setting phone to vibrate via volume rocker? Mine either goes to loud or completely silent. I can only go to vibrate if I use power button.
[Xperia Arc General] welshlad:
My contacts Facebook pictures don't show up in Handcent SMS, they show fine in the normal contacts list, any solution for this?
[Xperia Arc General] hackdima:
just look in your market settings ;) you can shut this feature off =)
[Xperia Arc General] THEtomaso:
I'm using this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.michalec.SimpleDigiClockWidget

It had a freeze fix a couple of versions back, though I can't remember it ever freezing on my phone. It's got seconds too.

APK availiable here:

http://www.1mobile.com/digi-clock-widget-186288.html
[Xperia Arc General] rec71:
That seems to work! Many thanks.
[Xperia Arc General] deadman3000:
Is there a way to unroot 4.03 to upgrade to 4.04?
[Xperia Arc General] datagubben:
It takes 3-4 seconds before the dialer shows when I am receiving a call, the screen is black when it is ringing. Any help please?
[Xperia Arc General] meow22:
Is it ok to install the new firmware 4.1.B.0.431 for my xperia arc?? will there be problems?? I haven't root my arc yet... can u guys give me feedbacks?
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
Is it ok to update your phone? LOL! That's a tough call mate. It's your phone. LOL!

Opinions are varied. Some shifted back to GB after trying out ICS. I personally like ICS and wouldn't be going back to GB.

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc General] pvyParts:
I agree 4.0.4 is great! At the end of the day if you don't like it go back to gb

ICS IS a huge step forward for android. It is much better than gb. :)

Pvy.
[Xperia Arc General] thelast3lack:
if you are a performance-wanting one so go for GB,

but for a normal user ICS is great enough!

although is has some issues, mine mostly with games, but is stable

enough for ever-day use.
[Xperia Arc General] szymon247:
I recommend you guys to try Arconium ICS. You basically get Sony's ICS minus some bloatware (the rest you have to get rid of yourself) and GB-like performance, if not better. Also, better battery life.

I was on stock GB, then installed the official ICS update and wasn't happy about performance. I started looking for solutions because I wanted to keep ICS while having better performance and battery life I started trying various ROMs and Arconium ICS was the best solution for me. Now I am very happy, this postponed my phone replacement until later this year.
[Xperia Arc General] rec71:
I've tried a lot of ROMs the last few weeks and am done with anything based on stock. I'd recommend either AOKP or FXP as gaming seems better but YMMV. Only my humble opinion of course. The stock ROMs I've tried aren't *that* different from the official releases in my experience. Yes there is less bloat but you can remove this yourself using root explorer or TB. You do get build.prop tweaks I guess.
[Xperia Arc General] Simoneale73:
Anyone else have problems with any of the Angry Birds games after updating to ICS??

My Arc (not S) is on the 4.1.B.0.431 and its Rooted with an unlocked Bootloader. But no matter what I try with ANY/ALL of the Angry Birds games the screen is unresponsive!.

But on Cut the Rope, Paper Toss and Stupid Zombies (the only other games I have) there are no problems!!

In Fact apart from Angry Birds Every other program runs no problems, I appear to have more memory than when I was on GB and the whole phone is much smoother and actually a joy to use!!
[Xperia Arc General] thelast3lack:
mine was like this.

also i have issues in iSlash...

but it got fixed by itself! :D

i dont know how, but it is working now...

try rebooting sometimes...
[Xperia Arc General] srdempster:
I noticed this article that's how I did mine, thanks Doomlord!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1683957
[Xperia Arc General] whyparch:
Hello,

Does anybody have a problem with picasa built-in photo uploading on official Android 4.0.4. I can't upload the photos, it's impossible to choose album where the photo is uploaded and at least it says it's impossible to recover account information.
[Xperia Arc General] np99:
Tried the 4.0.4 stock last night as I wanted to try the walkman app; Very disappointed with lag went straight back to JJ Hybrid 3.1 I would also recommend Acronium ICS if you like Sony apps, but for pure speed nothin beats JJ's rom for me.

I'm thinking of switching to Galaxy Nexus or Samsung SIII as I think they are the best supported devices both by Manufacturer and Devs.
[Xperia Arc General] The things I tell you:
I'm surprised to hear of people having lag problems with stock ICS - my Arc seems much more responsive now than it ever was on GB. Perhaps you have too much bloatware with the particular .ftf you used.

If having the latest android os quickly is very important to you then having a Google-branded phone like GN is always going to be the way to go. For me, I'm waiting/hoping for an international version of Xperia GX.
[Xperia Arc General] xtacy!:
Likewise. I'm waiting for the international version of the GX as well.

Is the Mint a totally different phone though?

Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Arc General] rec71:
I wish I'd bought a Galaxy Nexus instead of an arc S. The lack of a SD slot put me off but with hindsight it would of been a better purchase. Oh well, you live and learn. :)
[Xperia Arc General] The things I tell you:
I've only heard rumours about Mint. Could be an international version of GX. Could be a tablet.
[Xperia Arc General] ^eLipS#:
I have a question: is camera quality better on ICS or GB? I had ICS for like a month and then I downgraded to GB. Comparing pictures taken on ICS and GB for me it seems that ICS wins, especially with macro shots... I'm not sure about a video because while I was on ICS I never took at least one...
[Xperia Arc General] jtdc:
^ the video on ICS especially when you do HD, stutters. but i think its only during playback on the phone. when transfer the file out to a capable PC, i think there should be no stuttering/lost frames.

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The Galaxy Nexus has these "soft" android buttons which eats the screen estate. The lack of hardware button would also mean you can't unlock it when placed on a table. Hence I would prefer Arc physically over it!
[Xperia Arc General] mando508:
Without stabilizer video is smooth 29-30 fps, with stabilizer 24-30. Like jtdc said video stutters when is recorded or played on phone, but when you open it on PC it's ok.
[Xperia Arc General] idecaf:
Camera quality on ICS is definitely better for me. It looks like they have lower the compression level so that pictures have more details.
[Xperia Arc General] tatkovladko:
Unfortunately I have no comparison pics to show but photo quality in ICS was improved, mostly I think by reducing the compression - files went from ~1MB to ~2.5MB. Still, it's a far cry from SGS2 quality.

Regrettably, ICS also brought reduced video quality because even with Stabilization OFF, the video would sometimes stutter, and also it went from stereo to mono recording.

Since I could get good photographic results with 3rd party camera apps (similar to that provided by the ICS upgrade) I am now back to GB because the video quality is apparently better, due to the missing stuttering and the stereo sound.

Still, when displayed on a larger screen such as my 37" TV, there is a lot to be desired both from video and photo quality.
[Xperia Arc General] plymptonpilgreen:
hi peeps. after updating via sus to ics on my 2011 arc when it got released i promptly reflashed it back to gb. although just to test recently like today that it was still available to update once again via sus and pcc to find its not offered as an update anymore??? anyone know why sony has pulled this now? i know i can flash it myself but am just curious as to why its no longer available? were there issues?
[Xperia Arc General] szymon247:
On the contrary the image quality for me degraded with the ICS update. The images are still grainy and each file now takes 3 times as much size (they are always between 2 and 3mb).

However the worst part is that the colors and contrast are a bit off now. Images are kind washed out. What I mean is.. I used to be able to take great shots with my Arc, now it's almost impossible because there's always something wrong.

I don't have exact comparison shots but this difference would be best explained here.

Unmodified files, full 8mpx, same settings -auto (it decided to use the same ISO - 80 in both cases too). Both photos have been taken in the afternoon, same time of the year, same weather and lighting settings (yet the ICS photos clearly don't convey that).

GB stock rom, ~1.5mb file size, good weather, some objects and the sky:

ICS, I literally tried super hard to take a good shot and this was the best one. ~2,6mb file size, good weather, some objects and the sky
[Xperia Arc General] johnnyriver:
ICS issues

Hi there,

I too have problems with touch controls in some games. Some times, in the menus, the touch screen stops working, but all the other keys work fine.

Before I did the upgrade to ICS, I was warned that it was irreversible. Is it true?

Thanks!
[Xperia Arc General] sejas:
Sometimes i really feel gingerbread was better then ICS.. I feel like Camera Quality is also reduced.
[Xperia Arc General] moolash:
video chat - google talk

Has video chatting in Google Talk (I know we don't have a front camera) been eliminated in ICS?

It came out in the 2.3.4 update and I only see voice talking option now in ICS.

Anyone??

(I know there are .apk's, if that's the only method, I am fine...)
[Xperia Arc General] :
I'm back in GB and must say that i don't regret..This is a lot more faster/smoother than ICS.
[Xperia Arc General] mr_esmit:
How'd you do that? I'll go the same route, the battery life sucks with ICS. I only get about 10 hrs out of it.
[Xperia Arc General] cayal3:
Since I updated my Xperia Arc to ICS, I've noticed my facebook app crashes when trying to post using my phone.

I've cleared the data and cache and reinstalled it, but same issue.

Has anyone else had that problem? Did you fix it?
[Xperia Arc General] n3n00:
Hi everyone, just got this phone yesterday (Arc S). I like it overall and the stock 2.3.4 is pretty good. No lag and very smooth. Only thing bothering me is the bloatware.

So I'm rooting it in few days to delete the cr*p, but I want to try CM7 or CM9 because I like CM tweaks and possibilites which lack on stock GB. My bootloader is unlockable (checked) so I'm stuck on this (don't want to brick it with "test point" unlock way - I think it's called like that).

Just wondering... is it possible (and better?) to flash official ICS (to get official ICS kernel) and then put some GB ROM? Is it going to be faster? Sorry if this is in wrong thread, I'm new to this part of community and it's confusing :P.
[Xperia Arc General] Dark Fable:
Just try this GB ROM, its the best in my opinion and hopefully is what you're looking for. :good:
[Xperia Arc General] Lusterboi:
How did you flash back to GB ? I'm on official ICS and its laggy when put under pressure. Please provide link for file downloads if you can, I'm on Arc S.

Thank you
[Xperia Arc General] stephen25:
is there a way i can downgrade may SE Xperia Arc from ICS to GB?
[Xperia Arc General] n3n00:
Download GB .ftf (.62 Generic Global for example). Use flashtool to flash it.

USB Debugging must be turned on.
[Xperia Arc General] Fumas:
And what about battery drain? :)
[Xperia Arc General] stephen25:
can i use wotan?
[Xperia Arc General] Traviizter:
I haven't looked back since ICS.

Performance is around the same for me. Battery is a lil' bit worse, but that's expected. I've been using SetCPU lately so maybe I'll track my performance after setting it. The updated UI is the best bit though, it's just so clean. It's awesome, and the onscreen buttons mean I can use my hardware ones for media play/pause and next/previous.
[Xperia Arc General] frankie99969:
im pretty happy with the update, i actually find the home screen takes more to be completely reloaded after clicking home button, the app thats suffered worst for me is maps, constantly unresponsive if your navigating with your finger
[Xperia Arc General] mr_torture:
After few days of testing ICS, I came back to GB and I'm not planning another ICS adventure any time soon.

For me, there is literally NO reason for "upgrading" to ICS, at least with this phone, and actual ICS update. And there IS plenty of reasons for "downgrading" to GB after official ICS update. Upgrading, and downgrading, are actually meant to replace positions in upper statements. Why...? This is why.

User Interface: It's so obvious that SONY put a lot of effort to optimise GB for this phone, as much as they can, whether it be user interface, of performance. Have in mind, that probably months and months are spent in preparing GB before final release of this phone, and have in mind that this phone is originally made to run GB. I guess it's matter of taste, but Timescape UI (until ICS) is among the best looking adaptations of Android interface in general. If you ask me, it's much sleeker and better looking compared to, for example, Sense UI, or TouchWiz... As I'm doing a lot of design-related stuff in my life, I can say I'm quite competent regarding this subject. And what do we get with ICS upgrade, regarding UI? We get overall too minimalistic interface, with little-to-no effort put in interface itself. They are trying to sell unoriginal and lifeless interface under "clean and sleek" etiquette. You get some mix of default (google) ICS interface, with little interference to it. Plain black backgrounds, with applications interfaces being simplified to point of death. Just look at that Messaging app for example, or Phone/Contacts app. You get default wallpaper with almost white central area, that's not practical at all, having it under white icons.

It's funny to see many people praising user interface, as the main reason for switching to ICS from GB. Well, to me, it's not even close to GB when it comes to beauty.

Performance: And what about performance on ICS? Do I even need to talk about this. Choppy experience, all over the place. From launcher, to app drawer, to applications. How about waiting for three seconds for phone app to launch? Laggy camcorder, laggy this, laggy that. Laggy games, if they even work. Wireless going on and off for no reason, with distance less than 2m from modem. And even not properly working LED notifications.

Compared to all this, GB is definition of speed and usability.

So, I would really like to hear concrete arguments why should anyone upgrade to ICS. Beside fanciness of having "the latest" (already not the latest) version of OS. We are slaves of marketing and up-to-date-ness. We will use some "actual" software just because someone else decided that it's the most amazing one, even if it doesn't work so well on our devices, and even if our own experiences are telling something opposite.

I guess it's cool having ICS on your Android phone today.

Well, thanks, but I want my phone to be fast, responsive, and usable above all.
[Xperia Arc General] rec71:
I no longer have my arc S but in the last week I had it I decided to flash GB back just for fun. Wow. The performance difference over ICS was astonishing. I'd got used to the stock ICS lags and pauses. Gaming on GB is in a difference league too.

IMHO the only ICS that came close to GB performance on my arc S was the FXP CM9 ROM.
[Xperia Arc General] n3n00:
Have you tried JJ's Hybrid?
[Xperia Arc General] Emin3nt:
Hi, i'm also posting my problem on this thread, do since i've updated my Arc S to ICS 4.0.4 (official update), it keeps freezing all the time and sometimes i have to remove the battery and switch it back on. This happens also after a full wipe. I also unlocked the bootloader and flashed the DoomKernel and JJ's Hybrid Rom and now my Arc s goes fantastic smooth but still it keeps freezing. Basically when i'm using it blocks and wont unfreeze. This does not happen with Gingerbread..

Is this a kernel related problem? What should i do? I've already wiped and format my phone many times with no result. ICS in general presents this issue...should i try an other ROM or Kernel? Underclock my processor? Any ideas? It's really frustrating
[Xperia Arc General] xda666:
Maybe it's different apps, maybe it's a different usage scenarios, but I'm happy with ICS. Updated my arc with the standard software update service, bricked the phone immediately -- as it was unlocked and rooted before -- so had to lock it again, update again, downgrade to 4.0.3 and root it again, but once all of these has been done the phone works much faster than with Android 2.3, battery lasts even longer, mainly thank to the new memory management, etc. It is true that some of the issues are very painful -- unbelievable led notification problem caused me to install SMS Popup that turns the screen on every time I got a text message; that's the only way to have a customized led alerts at least for sms -- some issues are rather strange -- a new standard phone dialer is very cool, I replaced my old Dialer One with it, but it loads really long if not already in memory... -- but generally I'm happy with it. I personally don't believe that there would be any update that would fix all those issues, so I'll probably wait little bit and maybe eventually flash some custom ROM, before I'll replace arc completely with something new, but for now I'll leave it as is -- especially now, when I fixed the last minor issue, that ICS update procedure brought -- after cleaning a clock data, my default alarm clock stopped crashing on entry and started ringing again.
[Xperia Arc General] Arpit Goyal:
:/

em using xperia arc s..

updated it recently with ICS..but em nt satisfied wid it..

is there any way to go bck to gingerbread ??

any suggstns ??
[Xperia Arc General] n1kolaa:
via Fleshtool , download 62. firmwere file form internet (.ftf) and flsh it with fleshtool
[Xperia Arc General] jk234ert:
For me, the only reason to keep stay at ICS is a confusing problem at GB: for many my daily use apps, when I try to launch them, my phone gets stuck with the black screen, I tried to wait it, press home button and back to it, unless KILL the process, it remains all black without any nocification. This problem occurs randomly but on every GB based ROM it always happens.

At least this problem seems to be fixed in ICS. I never got it in all ICS based ROM. I know it may caused by the **** design of some Chinese apps but I really need them.

Anyone got the same problem here? I'd like to "downgrade" to GB if every app could work well just like me:fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Arc General] mr_torture:
It's about 4 weeks now, since I bought this phone, and I never, literally NEVER encountered "black screen" or any other freezing or force closing problem on GB, with any app I use.

Truth be told, I'm avoiding chinese apps, and generally apps I'm not familiar with. I even gave up "go development team" apps (GO Launcher, GO SMS, etc...) because they became bloatware, filled with a lot of unneeded stuff. If I'm about to install some app that I never used before, I'm checking reviews and permissions it demands... And if I encounter any stability issues with given app, I'm removing it with no doubts.

Edit: And don't get me wrong, about chinese apps. First, I don't have much reasons to use them, and second, very often, I find them very cheesy designed, and bloated with unneeded stuff.
[Xperia Arc General] gsteruk:
hi, like you i also have this 4.1.L.0.8 and doomlords ics root batch file doesnt work :( i really dont want to flash another rom, just want to be able to get root back. does anyone know how i can do this, or get doomlords script to work?

thanks all
[Xperia Arc General] ZiveK:
Hi,I'm New User ,but when you have problem with camera , i recommend good program : LgCamera, I used this program on my X8 and is very good ;).I don't know how he work on Arc ,but know is very good :)
[Xperia Arc General] ludwikjonkisz:
My stock ICS is very good.

4.0.4 stock
[Xperia Arc General] jk234ert:
Cruel bu true:( . I tried GB again last weekend and found the problems I described ONLY occurs on some Chinese apps. I used to avoid them like u when I was learning abroad. But now I come back, maybe I should delete the cache more often to keep these bloadware work normally:mad:. But at lease, ICS could fix it, maybe some technical improvement in the low level. Anyway I'm happy with the offical & xda-developers' ICS ROMs. Just work hard here to gather authority to post in the development section:o
[Xperia Arc General] ImjuzCY:
Really regret upgrading

I just got ICS last month and from the first day I use it, problems comes up. Really many many issues. Firstly my phone have problem booting up, when I switch it on, it stucks at black screen. After that, it booted up lastly, an just after the problem solved, another problem comes up again. And the thing that almost all user are facing is the internal memory problem. It's never solved. Everything crashes on the system, even stock apps like phone and message. My current problem is the messaging app that crashes every time I delete message and making me unable to delete any message.

Really going back to GB. And never come back. No point for upgrading to ICS
[Xperia Arc General] easy90rider:
A friend of mine was *****ing about not having ICS on his ARC, I showed him your post, I hope he changes his mind about ICS on ARC. It is a nice phone, but I'd never buy anything made by sony...
[Xperia Arc General] ImjuzCY:
Now even worse. I'm going to install cyanogenmod in but there are still things to backup and I'm stuck with the system keep crashing now. Every time I start it it start successfully but after a few minutes, it reboot itself. Sometimes it reboot successfully, but almost every time its stuck at black screen. Any solution to this?
[Xperia Arc General] omtay2311995:
every one should upgrade to the new .587 firmware i think

i have been using it a couple of days with a handful of apps and 50% supercharged and u can say it is as speedy as GB or at most 90% of its smoothness :angel::angel: