After waiting and waiting the update for Xperia arc s is out, this is the ICS 4.0.3 firmware. To be honest the stock rom i used so pretty laggy and slow so i decided to unlock my bootloader and try out the custom roms which are already appearing on the XDA forums.
The rom i’m using the Firebird v3.0 ICS rom and the ICS beta kernel provided with the rom, so far i’ve been using for a couple of days and i’m really impressed with this rom.
As you can see in the picture above this rom is based on the stock rom released by sony only just a week ago.
So when you first boot into the phone after installing the rom you can see the new style lockscreen which i must admit is quite nice.
Also if you are playing music at the time you will notice a nice little music player at the top where you can skip, play also displays the title and the cover for the song which is something i missed from the days of the iphone 3gs.
The menu style is still the same from the gingerbread stock rom which may dishearted most users who were hoping sony would change the style and bring a new look to the ICS.
Also the main homescreen is also the same from the gingerbread rom but with a few new widgets from ICS. The notification draw has had a revamp and also brings slide to discard feature, in the picture below you will notice the toggle widgets in the top bar which isn’t in the stock rom only in custom roms which again sony should have brought this feature to the stock rom.
The setttings menu also had a revamp and brings the new look from the ICS rom, the menu looks stylist and makes some options easier to get too.
There are many more features in the rom but this is a brief look over the rom. Below you will find a link to a video of the rom enjoy and thanks for reading.
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