Dare I venture to say that the earpiece heating up issue also has reduced? It is also not making the funny pop noise when disconnecting a call, similar to the speakerphone bug, so hopefully that has got resolved too. Gmail is also connecting fine now, but I yet don't see the 'E'.
Also when I connected it again through NSU, it said I already have the latest firmware and would I like to install it again. This is real nice, anytime I want, I now get a new factory format phone!