@shall7
Reinstalled from the appimage and did the automatic install this time from the recovery mode (power button + volume down) and it worked. Deleting the dotfiles did not work.

I had an issue where the device failed to boot after the latest update (21xx). It was stuck in the bios boot screen (not the one attached, but the one before with the black background). So I went ahead and reinstalled to the stable branch with the ubports-installer. It's now looping around on the unity/lomiri splash screen as shown in the picture below.

I have access to adb shell since the OS is actually functioning and I have developer mode enabled on this, I'm able to modify files and what not. I've tried removing .cache and rebooting, that didn't work. I have backed up all dotfiles into its own folder so let me know some methods or resources to look around in resolving as I don't really know this system (unity and how to get it running), I'm only used to ricing on arch-derivatives with simple window managers so this is new ground for me. I've included my home directory on suggestions on what to modify.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls -la
total 86004
drwxr-xr-x 22 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 27 14:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root        4096 Nov 19  1970 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 phablet phablet 12242944 Aug  7  2019 anbox-boot-bacon.img
drwxr-xr-x  8 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 25 11:34 anbox-data
drwxr-x---  2 phablet phablet     4096 Sep 22  2020 .android
drwxr-xr-x  3 phablet phablet     4096 Sep 22  2020 aptcache
drwxr-xr-x  9 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 27 13:35 backups
-rw-------  1 phablet phablet     3308 Oct 27 13:24 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 phablet phablet      220 Oct 16  2019 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 phablet phablet     3771 Oct 16  2019 .bashrc
drwx------ 12 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 27 13:53 .cache
-rw-rw-rw-  1 phablet phablet 65521209 Sep 22  2020 com.snapchat.android_10.76.5.0.apk
drwx------ 37 phablet phablet     4096 Jun 24 07:14 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Nov 19  1970 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Aug 20 23:54 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Aug 21 00:25 Downloads
-rw-rw-rw-  1 phablet phablet  7619621 Sep 22  2020 F-Droid.apk
drwx------  3 phablet phablet     4096 Nov 19  1970 .local
drwxr-xr-x  6 phablet phablet     8192 Sep 22 13:18 Music
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 27 13:17 .nano
drwxr-xr-x  5 phablet phablet     4096 Aug 20 23:48 Pictures
drwx------  3 phablet phablet     4096 Jan  5  2020 .pki
drwx------  2 phablet phablet     4096 Oct 25 11:57 .presage
-rw-r--r--  1 phablet phablet      678 Nov 19  1970 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Nov 19  1970 Public
drwx------  2 phablet phablet     4096 Sep 21  2020 .ssh
-rw-r--r--  1 phablet phablet        0 Jan  5  2020 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x  2 phablet phablet     4096 Nov 19  1970 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  3 phablet phablet     4096 Jan  4  2020 Videos
drwxr-xr-x  4 phablet phablet     4096 Sep 22  2020 .vifm
-rw-------  1 phablet phablet  1965017 Oct 27 14:49 .xsession-errors
-rw-------  1 phablet phablet   588520 Oct 27 14:05 .xsession-errors.old