[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] samccfl99:
No, Not fine...LOL. I am sorry to be a pain. It does not say that in the installation instructions and what about this Permissive Option, does it do that automatically now? OP install instructions still say:

REBOOT to check LED indicator for boot options

CHECK permissive SELinux after reboot

Now, you should be able to create a virtual ROM & boot into it...

But the real problem as i kept changing the post was when i activated loop0 which was a copy of stock (did not know how to make an empty one like OP says), i did an FF restore of Alliance. it was sluggish even loading the program, kinda stuttered and it started to restore System 3 times before it finished that (FF was so slow on restore and it just stopped and said WIPE and started again...in different places and the backup was on internal) and somewhere in DATA, FF got a "no more space" msg. the ext4 partition is 8.5gb. so it never finished. i did a battery pull and Alliance animation came up and stayed there. of course because all of data was not there, i am assuming. pulled sdcard out, it went to a bastardized stock. had root, but nova home screens were not there plus the lockscreen was Alliance. FF is a great app and i know it is in beta, but look at these screenshots. this is the 2nd time this happened to me during Restore, only it was worse. puts all folders in internal into a root folder called "0", but this time it made another sub folder of "0" and then in that one was all the files. OY! I rearranged them and tried to get into SS to restore, but no luck. i dont know. i am not stupid. maybe i will time myself this time going from NCE to LP...LOL. no, not funny. already deleted internal (except Android folder, needs special care) and tried to restore my internal bu, which i know how to do and now it tries to boots and just goes to stock recovery. oh also when i was in that stock, i uninstalled and reinstalled SS (because some com files did not copy for some reason and one of them said safestrap) and then odin the OA1 kernel and rebooted (yes i know about NCE Flasher, not that that would make any difference for this). no SS.

i am tired of putting this phone back together from NCE. not blaming you. i think i am going to give up on this whole thing until someone comes up with a solution to Viper (which they still say does not work even in MS even though it is supposed to have Permissive) and Xposed. if this OC7 base was not so fast and my music faded out and chopped like NG3/XDK, i would have went back to my beautiful GPE theme i had and Viper.

I do thank you for answering. it seemed everything finally wound up ok after MS install until i tried to restore a custom rom. that is one of the points of MS, right? FF not really ready. i was afraid to flash something because of what you said about the way they need to change the updater script for MS. maybe i should not think so much....LOL. well i am going to watch some tv and chill for now. am home and the phone is a toy mostly and for outside use. maybe you might answer with something to try. if i could get SS back, then i could restore. who knows if that would even work. probably going to have to start with NCE again. actually could do it in my sleep now.

EDIT: Nice stressless break. Back to work. So i odin the OC4 kernel back and boot into that bastardized stock. FF was still there (i knew that anyway) and i restored my stock. was ok. of course who knows what is going on in internal storage. some of the files did not copy. very strange. i done that so many times. now i just restored my Alliance rom. it came up. looks ok. powering down to put prod 32gb sdcard back in. its up and all good. lets see how it works.

So what do you think about the screenshots? do you think i should post it on the FF thread? i am sure Chainfire looks at it all, but he does not say much until a new release is ready. not complaining. people like him and you and muniz_ri keeps our phones going. I do not understand what i did wrong if the system was installed correctly. I can tell you that i did not do the wipes in MS because it was on that virtual copy of the stock rom already and did not know what would happen. i did not do a wipe in FF before restoring because it does not seem to be necessary and when i asked that question in the thread, no answer. i started to use wipe before restore and then that crazy thing happened once with folder "0". maybe it needed a wipe in the virtual rom. FF seems to be the only way to restore a rom in MS. you can flash a zip in MS. it has backup and restore, but i do not think it can restore an FF backup, could it. I think too much. i am very logical and reactionary and think about the instructions given and what i know. maybe i should be a dummy. just an old time assembler, cobol, etc programmer and many other things [/OLD....LOL. Dangerous? Again, sorry to be so wordy. Please give me your thoughts when you get a chance, here or in PM. i would appreciate it. if not maybe in another few releases of MS and FF i will be giving it a try again. Even though i like FF alot, going back to SS for backup and restore, even though it takes up more room. the flashing i guess is ok in FF. Yes, i have SS back because Carl was nice enough to give me his zips to swap the files. THANK YOU CARL. My one cent..LOL.

THANKS (sorry i am so wordy and brain to keyboard sometimes is too fast...LOL)