Removing ICS ?

Moonpie2

Moonpie2

Moonpie2

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Hi all.

Just updated my Sony Arc S to ICS today.

First impressions.... rather disappointed.
From hugely reduced battery life to chuggyness.

So a quick question..... if I choose the reset to factory defaults option in my phone, will it go back to Gingerbread, or am I stuck with ICS now ?

I don't want to reset the phone if it's not going to have any effect. :(

Cheers
 
So went ahead and did the full on reset.

Still got ICS on it :(

But it does seem a bit more brisk :)

Can't imagine the battery life will have improved tho :(

But at least I've still got my health :)
 
Damn those leaky radio waves :P

Well that's always an option if it really is unbearable, but I'll give it a couple of days and see how it sits now I've done the reset.
 
Well, I can confirm that the phone is now back up to 'almost' Gingerbread speeds.
Probably around 95% of what it used to be.

Unplugged the phone this morning at 7am and usually I have about 30-40% left when I plug it back in at 11pm..... let's see what happens tonight :)
 
Hi dudes (and dudettes)

Well, it's now 7:30pm and amazingly I still have over 40% battery on a day with above average usage !?!? :confused:
Literally no idea what killed my battery to death on the day I installed ICS.

So it seems I was a tad premature with my disappointment.
Battery seems to be like it always was, and the speed is as good as makes no difference to Gingerbread.

To reply to Stumble Bum, I think it might be by region.
They rolled out in the scandanavian/nordic countries first according to the Sony blog.
But people were claiming they upgraded in Canada, Saudi Arabia etc... soooo.... not entirely sure.

FYI, I'm in Shanghai (as my location says)
 
Well, it's been about a week of ICS usage now, so thought I'd pop back with my final thoughts for other Arc S users who haven't yet upgraded or whatever.

The battery life seems to be the same as is always was. No better, no worse.

The speed is the problem now. I estimated it was running about 95% of Gingerbread in a previous post, but I'm gonna downgrade that to about 85-90% now. There's no excuse for the actual phone dialer taking a good 3 or 4 seconds to populate the screen when you press it.

In summary..... it's close..... but I'm gonna have to say DO NOT upgrade.
The benefits (of which there are few in my opinion) are not worth the loss in speed.
 
Actually, couldn't live with it any more.

Sold the ole Arc S for (the equivalent of) 140 quid and bought the Xperia S for 290 quid....well......150 if you count the cash from the Arc :D

Only had it about 2 hours so can't really comment... but if I do... I guess this isn't the thread for it any more ;)

When ICS becomes available for the Xperia S, I think I might wait a week or two and read some forums before jumping in this time, Heheh
 
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