Okay, so I tried installing a different skin altogether and the issue persist. The problem does not appear to be linked to KiddaC's skin.
This is really odd. I used to have an older Vermin skin on this and it worked fine. I no longer have that one, nor can I find it, But changing the default OpenATV skin seems to mess up this Zgemma Star H2 box. And you cannot FTP into the box when it boots up, it just freezes and Filexilla rejects the password as incorrect.
Guess I'll just have to stick with the default skin. (PS - I also tried installing new skins after I had extended the memory using a USB and it did the same there)
