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Lollipop Screwed my Xperia Z Ultra Experience.

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Cyphr
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Lollipop Screwed my Xperia Z Ultra Experience.

I must begin by saying,I hate the Lollipop update on XZU. The clownish bright colors and whites. I so badly miss the dark default Sony theme of Kitkat 4.4.4 The notification dropdown in all black just looked so sexy. All text and images used to pop on it. Now it just looks so stupid in white and grey. Earlier I used to just love looking at my phone's gorgeous display. No more..Lollipop ruined it totally and I regret my decision so badly to update the phone. 

Is there any way I can rollback to Kitkat 4.4.4? I want to keep the OEM rom. 

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Cyphr
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@tiangiron : Sorry for the late reply, bruh. I've been travelling so didnt get a chance to rollback this lollicrap. I hope to have it downgraded as soon as I'm back home in a week's time. 

Update on the Lollipop experience : The more I'm forced to use it, the more I hate it.  I feel the phone is becoming more sluggish as time passes by. Simple things like app switching now causes annoying lags which were absolutely not present on Kitkat. I absolutely hate the card app switcher. The Kill all switch is gone. The whites all over the UI are so annoying. The phone gets warmer and the awesome battery performance on kitkat is all but history now. I can barely make through the day now when I could easily squeeze out close to two days on kitkat. I know how badly I regret my decision to upgrade. :'(

Cyphr
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@HolyItsaRaccoon : Hey, are you having any issues after the downgrade? Is the battery backup from kitkat restored? Please let me know. Slightly_smiling_Face 

The only thing I'm probably going to miss from lollipop is the ability to use any part of the image, any dimension as a wallpaper. You can basically drag and resize the bounding box to any dimension and save it as a wallpaper. It is not locked like in Kitkat. The scrolling on homescreens will be calculated accordingly depending on the width of the wallpaper. That was something unique. But I'm ready to sacrifice that for better performance and battery life any day. 

OByrneWJ
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Hey,

If i follow your guide to downgrade back to kitkat wil it fix the unresposive camera issues?

Sorry had to edit the post.