I don't know the specific issues. When I uninstalled mobile hotspot it didn't uninstall the kernel and I didn't realize that. When I had backed up myphone pre-flash it had the kernel in it so when after I flashed everything and did a restore Joikuspot and still didn't work. I tried the command to re-load the old kernel and then everything went downhill. No idea why. Phone so unbearably slow it was unusable.

I re-flashed again with everything the same except I didn't restore the custom kernel and now it works fine with Joiku. There may have been other dependencies but that was what fixed it for me.