Ok update..
Reflashed the kernel, wiped cache partition.
It booted, was really terrible the first boot.. it was freezing for 30 seconds at a time.
Eventually it went to sleep.. I had it USB mounted so I could still access files, ADB seemed to still work but I could not get the screen to come back on.. so I "reboot" in adb
It booted back up but this time within about a minute I had a random reboot.
Then it never booted up .. it just kept looping at gamepad 3
hit the reset button to turn it off, turned it back on..
Again ran into a situation where the screen would not come up, dmesg in kept showing key press state changes for [play].
Hmm.. for some reason it's registering power as [play]? I guess.
I remembered I had physical button music control xposed module.. however had no problems with the old kernel.
So I rebooted, again, loaded up xposed, disable the module, reboot again.
This time so far the system seems like it was, no long freezes, it's waking up like it's suppose to.
I loaded up a movie, vsync is without question fixed.. it played great!
I do not have a HDMI enabled tv handy to check frame rate
Just thought I'd post the little update.. Im gonna tackle the xposed module again.. cause that I'd hate to loose it.. lets me change songs with the screen off.
Still need to check how 3D games play see if I have any GPU instability like I had a while back.
Can't say about the wifi driver refresh.. signal strength seems about the same but to early to say, Need to check throughput.. it was always pretty lousy for me in the past.
I'll get back to you guys as I test it out but the Vsync is fixed without question and that alone is a good start in my book
EDIT: ACK!, spoke to soon.. would not wake up again.
apparently it's not that xposed module.. maybe WC can figure this one out
<5>[ 2502.284078] iokey[play]: report ev[116] state[1]
<5>[ 2505.544061] iokey[play]: report ev[116] state[0]
System is'nt off.. it's not frozen, but screen will not come on.
it's registering power button as.. I guess [play]?