@pengaro yes, icons and text (the whole UI) basically are tailored to the non-XL variant screen resolution, they will look bigger on the XL since that's the scaling value it has been set to. But you can change it with the Ubuntu Touch Tweak Tool.

@oliv thanks, I will reinstall UT soon and give it a try

@dieharddan Yes it is on. I got it working now on 3G

Thanks for the reply. It's not powering down at all. It literally goes to the Android Recovery screen briefly before the Google splash screen then boots into UT.

For anyone else, if you do a factory reset and wipe out your personal data it will reload the os and work ok. IT would be nice to figure out what app or tweak causes the issue though.

@fredldotme got it thanks!