Microsoft aware of Xbox Live profile 'Error 801540B7,' working on fix

@GeraltRivia
I know; my biggest problem is that they've made it too easy to navigate with Kinect, so now it's difficult for me to complain about how inconvenient the new dashboard is =/.

@GeraltRivia

Not to jump on the bandwagon, but it certainly seems that way.

@GeraltRivia
No error message yet, and the only issue I have with the New Dashboard(or 'Xbox Home')is simply navigating through the new menu. Sort of like a WinXP to Win7 jump. I'm sure all the old stuff is there, it's just learning & finding them.

@Ravenok
Because it isn't, in case that was too subtle--I rather like the new dash. I bet this error has more to do with the new cloud profile system than with the new dashboard itself.

@Ravenok

I could write an essay on how this could seriously be improved. but I'll just say this:

the games section is not the first thing the Xbox opens up when you sign in. That is is like going to a restaurant and getting the desert menu first and the dinner menu last.

@GeraltRivia

And there are more serious issues related to the Metro dashboard update even the media HELPING MS to cover up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-new-dash-borks-video-playback

@southernpredator

Where's the edited button?

@eat it

The game you have in the tray is the window it boots on and there's a "quickplay" right below it that contains shortcuts to all your recently played arcade games. I don't see what the problem is. It is literally 1 button press to launch your disc now (or zero, if you have boot-to-disc on.)

Sure it would be great if you could populate your own home screen with whatever you used most, but it's probably not going to happen.

@Ravenok Just saying I found the last dashboard alot easier. And I dont like how to launch my game its in a little ox in the top left. It should be the big middle one.

@eat it
Of course there are improvements to be made, especially with controller navigation. As a gamer, I, too, feel that I should be miffed about the games section being a fraction of a second farther away from the home screen. I have only rarely needed to venture that far to access the content I'm seeking, though, because the games I want to play are generally either in the tray or in the quick launch section.

The couple of times that I have used it, however, I have found that I do genuinely dislike the new games section; it is no longer as easy to find what I am looking for. I can admit defeat and tell the Kinect to do it for me, but as it loads up, I can't shake this feeling that all it really heard was: "This is my glowy spot, please don't shoot it."

@Ravenok

I like the improvement with the Kinect features, but one thing that makes no sense is why are games slower to launch if you use a voice command? For example, if I simply click A on the controller to launch the disc it he screen goes black and the game begins to load almost immediately. OTOH, if I say "Xbox play disc" the text "Playing disc" appears for a few seconds and then it begins to launch the game. I don't know if there's supposed to be time to cancel in there or something, but I find it a bit annoying.

@Truz I had the same issue, but it just magically started working after about 5 days. Hopefully yours starts working soon. I sat on the phone with XBL support for about 2 hours one night, and they ended up referring me to a "gamer profile team" that would contact me in 3-5 days. They never did contact me, but it did start working, so there you go.

@Lexxon

That may be your router; I had similar problems in the past after moving to FIOS. Are you using DHCP? If so, you may want to alter your setup to give your 360 a static IP address outside of the DHCP block. If you don't want to do that, then make sure that your router has set the DHCP lease duration to a sane value (24 hours to a week is normal). Also, double-check that there's not any weird NAT settings on the router. What the "test connection" thing does is basically run through a cold-boot sequence that the router recognizes as a new device coming on, and it runs through some settings that the dashboard takes for granted (because by default they should be 'remembered' by the router). It sounds like your router is forgetting these details after the 360's been off for a fair amount of time. Good luck.

@John Z

Thanks for the insight. I work with networking during the day (albeit very simple networking) so I like to think I know what I'm doing, but I've had all sorts of XBL trouble with this new router, and even ones before it.

Before this one, I could only DMZ/open ports to one Xbox at a time, as my brother has his own. uPnP would do the same thing, but it would often not "release" the first xbox until it was shut off and the router reset. But I could at least always connect, just with Moderate or Strict NAT.

Now it doesn't even connect, even with all of the ports opened up properly, until I do the test connection. I'll probably swap in the old router this weekend to see if it is indeed the router (Cisco E2500).

Oh well. Minor issue I suppose.

@eat it
My favorite part about the credit card storage for Microsoft: you can't delete your credit card.

i have a family account and you are required to have a valid card on file at all times for god knows what reason. So, I have a credit card that only has enough money to pay for my PSN and XBL accounts at any given moment.

Sure it sounds dumb and probably excessive, but at least I know that the most I could be out is $200 and can be easily disputed. for the points I just buy point cards when I'm out. It helps me avoid the impulse buys.

@babytuna. The problem is that it's not cool to like new stuff. You have to complain about it and appear to not like it, if you want "internet props".

@(Unverified) Why you have to rub it in out faces that you have a ipad

@Wizardsofwaverly
It did it because I copied my email. Any more questions?

@(Unverified)

Because THAT issue is a mountain out of a molehill non-issue.

@Ordeith Oh, so if your Blu-ray player or PS3 got an update that made it non-HDMI compliant and gave anything black a gray caste because the video levels were incorrect, you wouldn't consider that a big issue? And if the black level changed every time you started/stopped a video, you wouldn't consider that a major bug? The fact of the matter is that this worked correctly in the NXE dashboard... and doesn't now. And there have been HUNDREDS of complaints about it, all of which of been ignored thus far.

If you're happy having to change brightness and contrast on your TV every time you watch a video on your 360 just to get the same video quality of the previous dashboard, then more power to you. It isn't a "mountain out of a molehill" when the "update" downscales all your 1080p video to below 720p and messes with the black/white levels. The bottom line is that there is a video standard by which all video sources are supposed to be compliant... and whereas it was compliant before, now the Xbox 360 is not. Not even close. Worse, with all the new video apps, Microsoft's focus on video content is greatly sullied by the fact that none of those video apps display video at the correct levels. Any Reference Level you select in the system settings is objectively incorrect based on the hardware standards for video output.

The bottom line is that this update was not ready for release. These problems that Microsoft is having to respond to were not surprises to them, but they released it to the public anyway so they could push their new video apps. Fingers crossed that they fix all of these issues quickly, because I can't even watch Netflix on my 360 anymore thanks to it being a washed out horrible looking mess with the new dash.