For Anyone Experiencing Random Crashes and Playback hangs (In Case It Helps Anyone)

Just wanted to post this to try to help the likely many Kodi newbs like me lurking here who suddenly have a near bricked experience on their hands and don't have a clue on what to do. In case this resolves the same issues I had for someone else, that'll make me a happy feller.

I have historically used EZRA, SEREN, and THE CREW addons and was happily enjoying my Matrix basic setup. I happened to be one of the peeps where Kodi auto updated to NEXUS and suddenly, it became a complete mess.

Crashing mere seconds upon load, taking a bit longer to give me some hope and crashing anyway. If it didn't crash, attempting to play anything left me hanging in the loading source window for ages. If you are experiencing any of the above, please read the rest.

My digging around for a fix made me aware that (insert armchair anecdotal attempt at understanding the back end of Kodi) these particular addons use libraries/python that aren't in sync with the NEXUS update. I see that there are many others with the same issue (potentially).

It has been advised by our many selfless Kodi gurus to use FEN and UMBRELLA addons for now as they have been updated to work with the current build.

It took me like, 30 attempts to uninstall my addons and their dependencies but since removing all others and rebooting my Shield, all random crashes and playback hangs have instantly stopped.

Hope this helps others!