[HTC One A9] Allodesh:
I have an A9 that I figure'd I'd root since my current phone is a Galaxy J7 and will never see root access ever (it's a tracfone).

Here's what's up. I went through several walk-throughs on trying to root the device with a one-click solutions on my phone and PC. 'OneClickRoot' won't open, KingRoot methods do nothing, and KingoRoot seemed a bit too shady to me. So maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. I do some reading and every guide that seemed worth it's weight in text, walked me through unlocking the bootloader first, then rooting. So I download the JavaDev and AndroidDev installers, and other HTC drivers/managers. I have access to adb + fastboot (+ htc_fastboot where applicable). I make an account over at HTCDev and officially unlock the phone. As I read further into this process, TWRP comes up. I download 3.2.1.0 (and eventually some other versions too). I ran 'fastboot flash recovery twrp.img' (also trying the .img with full version in name as downloaded, and changing it to recovery.img). Fastboot takes all of 6.x seconds to do it's work (which doesn't seem quite right for a 38MB file, but what to I know?), and everything seems to check out. If I try to cmd/adb reboot into recovery mode or manually enter it from the fastboot>bootloader>recovery menues, I get an htc logo, delayed black screen than a normal boot to the lockscreen. Clear the cache? Tried it via fastboot, since the stock recovery is gone. Still nothing. At this point I feel I'm missing something very small, or something just plain doens't work. I've checked XDA, and a few other forums to as for back as 2015 posts on rooting/bootloader issues, and tryed little variation in commands trying to make things work. So here I am, first post on XDA, pleaing for help. My head is spinning and if I have to hear the damn AT&T chime on boot after a hung up recovery boot one more time, I am going to destroy this phone.

Since you're going to ask, this is what I'm working with:

HTC One A9 (Model 2PQ9120)[AT&T]

Download Mode:

*** UNLOCKED ***
htc_hiaeul PVT S-ON
LK-1.0.0.0000
RADIO-1.0.U00297.1@51002.2
OpenDSP-6.8.5.00.190-8952_1013
OS-1.27.502.5
Nov 12 2015,15:40:38(656287)

While on Download Mode:

C:\adb>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) kernel: lk
(bootloader) product: htc_hiaeul
(bootloader) version: 1.0
(bootloader) imei: 352637070179992
(bootloader) version-main: 1.27.502.5
(bootloader) boot-mode: download
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.0.U00297.1@51002.2
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0.0.0000
(bootloader) mid: 2PQ912000
(bootloader) cid: CWS__001

Bootloader Mode:

[COLOR="Gray"]*** Software status: Offical *** [/COLOR]
[COLOR="Magenta"]*** UNLOCKED ***[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Orange"]*** S-ON ***[/COLOR]

While on Bootloader Mode:

C:\adb>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version:0.5
(bootloader) version-baseband:
(bootloader) version-bootloader:
(bootloader) max-download-size: 0x20000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x10000000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x625000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0xd9000000
(bootloader) serialno:HT5APBE01249

I tried to find a stock recovery image, but I have no clue what I looking for quite honestly, and don't want to flash the wrong thing (though at this point I guess it doesn't matter). I don't need a long drawn-out 'well this is where you kerfuffled your device' speech, ask if I ran a command, and I'll try to elaborate on when and how I did. Or heck, just throw commands at me and I'll just try them out. It's no big deal If I lose the phone altogether, I'm just trying to make it a WiFi only, barbones, games-only device. Thanks ahead of time!