Issue with X2 Air Cube after update to Matrix

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I have a Ugoos X2 Air Cube that is running their rom which is dual boot android and coreelec. I know this wasn’t the recommended method when I did it, but it has worked for a year, I never even know Android is there as it boots to Coreelec. I made the mistake of updating to Matrix through the coreelec UI.

All went well, it seemed to hang on “migrating addons” so I pulled the plug. (did this yesterday with a C4 and had no issues) now it boots to the coreelec splash screen and just hangs there, tried a couple reboots, nothing. Sat for over an hour.

I have two questions:

1. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
2. If not what is the best way to install coreelec on this device? I don’t care about Android, seems like I will need to install the original android rom and then use the coreelec emmc tool, is that the best approach?
   Or should this work?
   How to install CoreELEC

[Portisch]

1. Clean fresh install as upgrade from 9.2 to CE-19 is not recommended.
2. ceemmc, but your device isn’t official supported. So it’s on your own risk.

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@Portisch

Clean fresh install as upgrade from 9.2 to CE-19 is not recommended

Curious about this. What would be the recommended way then without the tool?

[FXB78]

If you can still SSH in you can rename the .kodi folder & reboot. That’s what I did. Once it’s created a new Kodi folder & working you can remove the old Kodi folder.

[lightsout]

Was able to boot with a new install on an SD card, it works for now, although of course everything is wiped but wasn’t expecting to recover. With this method I have to hole reset at every reboot, so not permanent but happy the box is working.