Battery seems fixed and smart scrolling reappeared... but now some new behavior:

The device receives the sms while asleep but no notification what-so-ever. Before it wasn't even receiving them while asleep... so I suppose that's progress...

EDIT: okay two weird things... first PP wipe all my notifcations settings... not sure why? anyways turned those back on and discovered this gem:

whenever i turned the screen off via the top button I would not recieve any texts through asleep, but if i let it go off after a minute and then send a text, it was received and notified me. very odd.

But i suppose that means that PP works again though