There’s a few bugs in the most recent Dashboard Update for the Xbox 360.
The first bug is affecting Windows Live Messenger. If either your Xbox Live or Messenger account was setup prior to being age 18, you can’t use Messenger on your 360. I know someone who is currently 24 that can’t use his Messenger account on his 360 because it was setup when he was 17 years old.
The next bug is with the official wireless networking adapter. Users with the official wireless adapter are having problems auto signing in to Xbox Live. Changing from the wireless adapter to a wired connection solves the problem instantly, as does using a wireless bridge or third party wireless gaming adapter. Changing the auto sign-in options for both Live and Messenger to Enabled does not solve the problem.
In a call to Xbox Support today, they confirmed they are aware of both issues and are working on fixes. When they’ll be available, no one knows. I’d expect within a week or two.
Have you experienced these or other issues with the most recent dashboard update? Let us know in the comments.
k I downloaded the new dashboard update today it took me to create an avatar and when I went to save it my 360 froze I restarted it 3 or 4 times with it freezing right away each time and now I only get 4 red lights on the ring is microsoft going to fix it probably not since the warranty is up and if they don’t I am trading in all my 360 stuff and going back to sony microsoft had a good run in video gaming but they will not last with the crap they are trying to pull on all of us