S-On, no ROM installed, can't install custom ROM

draksi

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  • I unlocked my HTC One Mini then flashed CWM.
  • I then tried to flash superuser.zip but I couldn't access the sdcard. I read that this was due to the sd not being fat32 so I formatted it in CWM.
  • This allowed me to put superuser.zip on but I believe it wiped the OS as the SDcard is not external.
  • So I tried to install CM11 from CWM but I got status (0) and status (7) errors.
  • I then tried to install a stock ROM and it got halfway through installing update then stopped making any progress so I pressed the power button and it broke CWM. I had to wait for the battery to power down to get back to fastboot.
  • I followed the advice in this thread (s-on-and-want-to-flash-roms-read-this on androidforums) and tried to use "fastboot boot recovery.img". The advice was to do this and then recovery can access /boot so can write the ROM kernal with S-On. However this just froze the fastboot screen until I held the power button, and then when I restarted the phone it just went to fastboot as did recovery in the bootloader.
  • I then flashed TWRP and that is where I am now.

I have TWRP in /recovery and the phone is S-On. I haven't tried installing a ROM from TWRP but I imagine the result will be the same as from CWM. As you can probably tell I'm not experienced with this, I successfully installed CM on an HTC desire a couple years ago so I thought this would be easy. I'm guessing I need S-Off to install a ROM, but is it possible to get S-Off without a ROM already installed (with Rumrunner for example)?

Basically I'm stuck, I don't know what to do and any help would be greatly appreciated.