[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Android Development] DECloyd:
After an odd MM upgrade, battery usage is high

Hi!

I have a couple of questions regarding the upgrade that I made to Marshmallow (MCG24.251-5 by [MENTION=5901115]TheSt33v[/MENTION]) the day before last. I used the instructions in the OP of this thread. All went well, I think; however, I also think that something is amiss and and hoping that someone here can point out what to do.

I was already on SU4TL-49, rooted (unlocked with Sunshine and rooted using the excellent instructions posted by [MENTION=5901115]TheSt33v[/MENTION] a few months ago). I created a TWRP image of my Lollipop installation before beginning, as well as a Titanium backup of apps/data.

Here is the situation:

The battery usage under my install of Marshmallow (MM) is significantly high, not making it through a day, which was never the case using Lollipop (LP).

A little background data related to this:

After successfully booting into MM and beginning the task of setting up accounts, playlists, etc., I decided that I'd do all of this after Christmas. Rebuilding my playlists is where I made this decision. :)

I first made a TWRP image of the MM installation and, then, used TWRP to restore the previously made SU4TL-49 (LL) image. All seemed to go well with two exceptions:

1) When booting using the restored SU4TL-49 image, I was shown a Motorola message window that stated that updated (radio?) firmware needed to be uninstalled and it continued on to state that the previous version would be restored; I selected the "Uninstall" option and the boot completed a little while later. My thought was that LP wouldn't be able to handle the firmware updates.

2) Following this, Wi-Fi would not enable. This one was, to me, a big deal since I am primarily a Wi-Fi user (I find it fun, a game). It would try to enable, seemingly continuously, but without success.

After three reboots, I looked at the above events and made what I will call "educated guesses": 1) that one of the firmware updates was to the Wi-Fi radio, 2) that the firmware uninstall wasn't fully successful and 3) that the Lollipop software couldn't work with the firmware updates to the Wi-Fi radio.

So, I made the decision to restore the MM image, figuring that LL was now a "no go" due to (what I'm guessing were) firmware upgrades to the Wi-Fi radio.

The image restored successfully and all is good except for the above mentioned, extraordinarily high battery usage. My guess is that the restore went well, but that the Motorola firmware uninstall that I mentioned didn't go smoothly.

There are a couple of other factors that might account for some of the high battery drain, but I'm looking at the rate of drain and thinking that it is too high, regardless of other factors.

With all of that in mind, I'd like opinions/suggestions on how to proceed from here.

My first idea is to simply use TWRP to reinstall MM over the top of the current installation; the concept being that the firmware upgrades will all be performed anew and all should be good.

My question(s) about this is: Will this work or will it cause other problems? Can I do this as a "dirty upgrade" (without a TWRP factory reset).

My other idea is to use [MENTION=5901115]TheSt33v[/MENTION]'s stock image of SU4TL-49 and return to LL (and the original radio firmware, hopefully) that way. Then, when all is good and shown to be working (specifically, Wi-Fi), to install MM again. This idea seems "shaky" to me, since the original radio firmware might not re-write, for whatever reason.

My question(s) about this is: Will this work or will it cause other problems? Is this something that I should do only if the first idea fails? If I do this method, should I use the image posted by [MENTION=5901115]TheSt33v[/MENTION] that says, "Use this image if you've never taken an official Marshmallow update" or the one that says, "Use this image if you've taken an official Marshmallow update in the past". My guess is the latter.

I'm hoping that somone has some good data for how I should proceed.