Nice catch.

Damn, so I think You should ask here how to compile it properly, which info about errors. Fortunately, Pali is quite active...

Then, try correctly compiling my first modified version, and try second only, if it fails. first one get rid of returning SHUTDOWN state alltogether (best chance of success in your case IMO), second one keeps that lice, except that it tell it to return NORMAL state instead of shutdown (that why it's uglier "hack").

Also, in thread i linked, you can find original getbootstate. You can try compiling it also before asking - to be sure that You get same errors, and it's not fault of my modification. If it compile by any chance, of course, putting original getbootstate in phone is useless, so only report it there and we'll think what to do.