i fixed problem
At first I thought it was locking after i click remote 3 times, but it was actually locking after about 5secs.
I needed to get to the restore settings in the general section. After unplugging a few times, I was finally able to get to click on the restore option with the few secs I had before locking up.
Once i clicked on restore it took 30 mins to update itself. It has now restarted running 4.4.2 and works great. watched a few trailers and its not locking on me.