How to downgrade from ICS if not satisfied?

[premvarma]

Greetings to Sony for the ICS roll out. Yet I havent upgraded my phone as I am waiting for more reviews to come on all aspects.

One doubt.. In case I am not satisfied with the performance of my phone after upgrading to ICS, how can I downgrade it back to Gingerbread? Just trying to play safe.

[Raja22223]

HI premvarma, The only method for downgrade officially is visit the service centre and they will do the Job..

[premvarma]

great!! so I still have a choice.. thanks @raja

[ryan515]

i saw some positive review on xperia P's ICS. and i think that it will be great than the GB version.

[premvarma]

I am not in a hurry burry.. will wait for somemore time for more reviews.. may be Sony will provide an update by then with latest fixes (if any bugs in ICS)

[Deepankar]

No point updating man i did it to my phone its stuck at loading screen "finishing boot" and did it to my friends phone also his is not even updating

[premvarma]

may be the way you are doing it is wrong or could be an issue with the phone.. coz most of the people here has been able to do it without any issues and are putting reviews... retry and if still not upgrading, take it to the service centre.. let them do it for you.

[Nabeel · Accepted solution]

There is no official way to downgrade.

Service center won't downgrade your device to gingerbread

Once ICS is installed, you would have to stay with it. No matter what

[ryan515]

or you could have sony service center themselves update your phone to ICS.

[premvarma]

Ohh really??? thanks @nabeel.. you saved me.. I was about to upgrade it thinking I can downgrade at service centre if not satisfied as per @raja mentioned.. can you tell me is it worth to upgrade to ICS at this point or should I wait for some more time before jumping into it?