[FreeMan xbmc]

 

 sounds potentially networking related, if a physical keyboard shows no issues but the Android remote does.  Not sure if it's on the Kodi side or LE side, but either the Linux support forum here or the LE forums might give you a wider audience for the issue.  

one note, if you're using a LAN connection (vs wifi), be sure to implement the fix in the wiki troubleshooting section, since it mitigates a kernel bug that cripples the Ethernet throughput  

It seems that it may have been a network issue. I avoid wireless whenever possible, so I implemented the `pci=nomsi` fix and that's definitely helped with browsing videos (non-library files), and it seems to be waking up from the paused state much better too.
Thanks again for your work and support!