Review on Update 4.0.4 for ARC S [Thanks to SONY]

Hi All. I think Sony released the 4.0.4 update for ARC S in Greece, Philippines and 2 more countries so far. Yesterday I updated manually using the flashtools. I flashed the update firmware which was released for Greece. Now here are the results.
It is much more smoother than the 4.0.3
No overall lags noticed till now.
Animation and screen rotations are smooth.
Battery life is quite good compared to the earlier ICS release. I am loosing 1% only per hour in idle mode.
HD playback is fine, no lags like we had in 4.0.3
WiFi connectivity problem solved.
Home Launcher lags gone completely.
The Device boots faster than the 4.0.3
Baseband 72, and the kernel seems to be well synced with the firmware this time.
Games are working well, except few HD ones. [I think ICS has a issue with backward compatibility, so gaming will take some time]
Phone charges really quick.
LED notifications and WiFI hotspot are working well.
I have rooted the device as well removed some bloatwares and the device is flying high. Rooting is easy just like any other time.
This is for locked bootloader  [credit goes to Overlo4d @XDA for the trick]
First flash the 4.0.4 firmware.
Then Flash the Kernel from 4.0.3
Root using Doomlord script for ICS 4.0.3
Rooting Done!
Then Flash back the original Kernel from 4.0.4 and the root will still be there. No problem whatsoever. 
Now the CONS:
Dial pad lags still there, now it takes 2-3 seconds to open up, earlier it was 4/5 seconds.
Camera and Camcorder features and quality are the same, and the camera interface shakes/stutter a lot while recording video.
No new widgets. [I don't mind]
No UI changes or graphical enhancements
If you open contacts once, then it will be running behind occupying 20-25 MB memory always. It's a little annoying.
No new KERNEL as SONY already stated that, they won't be upgrading the kernel for 2011 Xperia Lines.
Data traffic drop randomly on 2G network. General voice call signal is fine.
I am happy overall, cause there's barely any LAGS exists in this update.
Message was edited by: Auni

Technically Flashing a firmware by your own may cause some troubles with the warranty statement by SONY.
Because while flashing, if anything goes wrong and then you take the device to SONY service centre, then i am sure they would defenitley able to understand the issue and you may have some problem with your warannty claim.
But according to me if anything goes wrong, we just need to flash the device again that's all. Everything will be fine. I play around with my device a lot, so do not cared about warranty that much.
No offence.

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