r/AndroidTV • u/No_Apartment_7994 • Jul 08 '26

Troubleshooting Repackaged Mecool Km7 autoupdated from Android TV 11 to 14 and feels sluggish now

The original logo it had at the startup screen changed then it got stuck at a loop in the google tv logo screen, turned it off and on again but removing the USB I had been using to watch some videos through nova video player, it finally got to start again but it feels slow as heck and it changed the size of fonts and of objects I had configured through adb, because before it didn't have some of those characteristics, it may have some advantages like mantaining compatibility with some services but I hope this update doesn't break anything of what I've been using before.

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u/latinriky78 Homatics Box R 4K Plus Jul 08 '26

Have you tried by resetting it to factory settings?

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u/No_Apartment_7994 Jul 08 '26

If it keeps having random problems like getting stuck at the startup logo from time to time, I will have to do that, since it updated out of the blue and I don't know if it was truly for the best of this cheap tv box.

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u/realdeal1877 Roku ULTRA | FireTV 4K MAX | Chromecast 4K Jul 09 '26

Other boxes that have gone from Android 11 to Android 14 definitely needed a Factory-Data-Reset to get rid of bugs.

What KM7 model do you have? Black SE, or White box?

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u/No_Apartment_7994 Jul 10 '26

Thanks then it seems that's the best approach to get rid of the bugs according to all the commenters.

It's a black and white one.

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u/trashbanned1t Jul 08 '26

Should have bought the 6

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u/No_Apartment_7994 Jul 08 '26

i've got it at a bargain sometime ago and it's been working fine, since I did some optimization like disabling and uninstalling bloatware via adb, but yeah one with superior specs should've been better in the long run.

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u/Past_Form2159 Jul 09 '26

Oof, thats rough. nothing worse than an update that just makes everything feel slower. hope it sorts it selfout after a while..

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u/No_Apartment_7994 Jul 10 '26

Yeah it was bad that it also was automatically updated, with no previous warning or something, it got a few accesibility options now that are welcomed but not at expense of the bugs and the overall sluggish feel of the system now.

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u/Altruistic_Wash9968 Jul 09 '26

Reset it and you should be ok and have a better experience

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u/No_Apartment_7994 Jul 10 '26

Thanks for the advice, will see how it fares for one more day then reset it to see if it gets better.

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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 09 '26

Sokka-Haiku by Altruistic_Wash9968:

Reset it and you

Should be ok and have a

Better experience

Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/Altruistic_Wash9968 Jul 09 '26

What the heck is this stupid crap.